Improving Site Visit Reports for High-Performing Residency Programs Without Citations

Practices differentiating high-performing from low-performing supported employment programs.

This paper reports on a qualitative study designed to uncover the practices that differentiate programs producing high rates of competitive employment from those with low rates. The study found 13 differentiating practice factors in three areas: building consumer interest in working, getting a job, and maintaining a job. The congruence between these findings and current definitions of "best pra...

Improving low-performing high schools: searching for evidence of promise.

Noting that many of the nation's high schools are beset with major problems, such as low student reading and math achievement, high dropout rates, and an inadequate supply of effective teachers, Steve Fleischman and Jessica Heppen survey a range of strategies that educators have used to improve low-performing high schools. The authors begin by showing how the standards-based school reform movem...

Anesthesiology residency programs for physician scientists.

DRS. Schwinn and Balser are to be commended on their outstanding article entitled “Anesthesiology Physician Scientists in Academic Medicine: A Wake-up Call.” Their “call to arms” regarding the urgency of developing the next generation of physician scientists in anesthesiology may serve to further help shake us out of our complacency. These authors have nicely documented the problem and presente...

Strategies of high-performing EMT-basic educational programs.

INTRODUCTION The objective of this project was to identify the specific educational strategies used by emergency medical technician (EMT) educational programs that have attained consistently high success rates on the National Registry of Emergency Medical Technicians (NREMT) examination. METHODS NREMT data from 2001 to 2005 was analyzed in order to identify consistently high-performing EMT-Ba...

Improving Financial Outcomes with High-Performing Charge Nurses