#PWChat: Strategies for Increasing Diversity in Residency Training Programs
The latest installment of the #PWChat series centered around strategies for increasing diversity...
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Heartfelt Gratitude to Residents Around the World
There are two moments of my intern year I will never forget. The first morning, during...
Career Plans Among Internal Medicine Residents
General internists are expected to play a pivotal role in providing healthcare as the population...
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...
Remediation & Attrition in General Surgery Residents
The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) unveiled a new model to measure...
Improving 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...
Law 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...
Examining Attitudes Toward Pregnancy & Childbearing in Women Surgeons
The number of women applicants to medical school has increased steadily over the past few decades, rising to 50.8% of all American medical school applicants in 2003 to 2004. Despite this increase, women have historically been...
Medical School Grading: Everyone Gets a Trophy
“Variation and Imprecision of Clerkship Grading in US Medical Schools” is the understated title of the paper in the August 2012 issue of the journal Academic Medicine. The authors, from the department of medicine at Brigham and...
Work Hours: Perceptions From Residents
Most surgery residents do not appear to perceive that quality of care would be noticeably improved by reducing work hours, according to findings from a survey of more than 6,000 surgery residents. Less than 25% of respondents...
Boosting Surgical Trainee Confidence
During the transition from medical school to independent practice, residency training is critical for the development of physician confidence. According to recent studies, confidence in one’s own capabilities during surgery...
Patient Safety & Orthopaedic Surgery Residents
In 2000, the Institute of Medicine distributed a report suggesting that many hospital errors were related to flaws within the healthcare delivery system. As a result of this report, patient safety initiatives have been initiated...
