Alcoholism in residency program candidates

Factors influencing candidates' choice of a pediatric dental residency program.

The goal of this study was to identify the factors and program characteristics that influenced the program ranking decisions of applicants to pediatric dentistry residency programs. A questionnaire was sent to the first-year resident class in 2005 with a response rate of 69.2 percent (n=260). Approximately 55 percent were female (104/180) and 61 percent were non-His-panic white (110/180). The r...

US dermatology residency program rankings.

Unlike many other adult specialties, US News & World Report does not rank dermatology residency programs annually. We conducted a study to rank individual US dermatology residency programs based on set criteria. For each residency program, data from 2008 related to a number of factors were collected, including annual amount of National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dermatology Foundation (DF) ...

Effect of Doximity Residency Rankings on Residency Applicants' Program Choices.

INTRODUCTION Choosing a residency program is a stressful and important decision. Doximity released residency program rankings by specialty in September 2014. This study sought to investigate the impact of those rankings on residency application choices made by fourth year medical students. METHODS A 12-item survey was administered in October 2014 to fourth year medical students at three schoo...

Stapedotomy in a residency training program.

INTRODUCTION The major objective of a stapedotomy is the restoration of hearing. In training centers, the hearing results obtained by resident physicians are lower than those achieved by more experienced surgeons. An analysis of the surgical results obtained by resident physicians is essential to identification of the deficiencies in the learning process. OBJECTIVE To analyze the postoperativ...

Pediatric residency program in the Philippines. .