Professionalism in Anesthesiology training

Professionalism in Residency Training

Professionalism is one of the most important competencies for physicians but is also the most difficult to teach, assess, and manage. To better understand professionalism in pathology, we surveyed practicing pathologists and pathology residents and fellows in training. We identified 12 key desirable attributes of professionalism. In addition, 8 case scenarios highlighting unprofessional behavio...

Reality in Training for Professionalism

Purpose To identify the degree to which interns’ reported experiences with professional and unprofessional behavior converge and/or diverge with ideal professional behavior proposed by the physician community. Method Interns at Wayne State University’s residency programs in internal medicine, family medicine, and transitional medicine responded to essay questions about their experience with pro...

Distributed Learning: Revitalizing Anesthesiology Training in Resource-Limited Ethiopia

BACKGROUND Ethiopia has a significant paucity of available health-care workers. Despite the increasing number of medical schools, there are not enough physician instructors. Furthermore, availability and standardization of postgraduate training are lacking. Modalities of e-learning have been shown to be successful when used to impart medical education in other resource-limited countries. The Em...

Effectiveness of a simulator in training anesthesiology residents.

The educational potential of a computer-controlled patient simulator was tested by the University of Southern California School of Medicine. The results of the experiment suggest unequivocally that there is a twofold advantage to the use of such a simulator in training anesthesiology residents in the skill of endotracheal intubation: (a) residents achieve proficiency levels in a smaller number ...

Perioperative Ultrasound Training in Anesthesiology: A Call to Action.