Mentoring for Subspecialty Training Program Directors: An Unrecognized, Unmet Need?

Meeting an unmet need for family planning.

More than 120 million women worldwide aged 15-49 years have an unmet need for family planning, which is due a renaissance after years of neglect. On 11 July 2012, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the UK government will co-host an international summit in London to shine a spotlight on the world’s massive unmet need for family planning. The summit hopes to catalyse a global movement to pro...

Cough: an unmet clinical need.

Cough is among the most common complaints for which patients worldwide seek medical attention. Thus, the evaluation and treatment of cough result in tremendous financial expenditure and consumption of health care resources. Yet, despite the clinical significance of cough, research efforts aimed at improving diagnostic capabilities and developing more effective therapeutic agents have been, to d...

What kind of mentoring do we need? A review of mentoring program studies for medical students.

Nearly every medical school in Korea has a student advisory program, regardless of its form or method, but it is plagued by efficiency. To examine efficient means of delivering student advisory programs, we chose 'mentoring' as one solution and reviewed the concepts of a mentor and mentoring, the qualities and roles of a mentor, and examples of national and international cases of mentoring. The...

Pediatric emergency medicine fellowship training: a survey of program directors.

The need for improved dermoscopy training in residency: a survey of US dermatology residents and program directors

BACKGROUND Inadequate dermoscopy training represents a major barrier to proper dermoscopy use. OBJECTIVE To better understand the status of dermoscopy training in US residency programs. METHODS A survey was sent to 417 dermatology residents and 118 program directors of dermatology residency programs. RESULTS Comparing different training times for the same training type, residents with 1-1...