Career Plans Among Internal Medicine Residents
General internists are expected to play a pivotal role in providing healthcare as the population...
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Should Resident Work Hours Be Capped?
Blogging at his site “Adventures in Emergency Medicine,” Dr. Sam Ko says resident work hours should be limited to 40 per week. Via Twitter, I warned him that I would rebut his assertion. Without any data or...
Read MoreRemediation & Attrition in General Surgery Residents
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) unveiled a new model to measure resident performance in 1999 that endorsed six general competencies. These include patient care, medical knowledge, practice-based...
Read MoreImproving Surgeon Skills With Simulator Training to Automaticity
Studies have shown that using surgical simulators to improve skills in the operating room (OR) can be effective for surgeons in training. To maximize the effectiveness of simulation training, a proficiency-based training...
Read MoreLaw School Applications Down; Are Med Schools Next?
The number of people applying to law schools is in steep decline. So says a recent post on a website called “The National Jurist.” The post cited some remarkable data from the American Bar Association. In 2012, law school...
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