Residency Redesign: Much to Do

Residency redesign.

Internal medicine residency redesign: time to take stock.

During the past few years, the internal medicine community has engaged in a serious discussion about the need to redesign internal medicine residency training to ensure that residents are prepared to provide high-quality care to the patients whom they are likely to encounter when they enter practice. In 2005, persons within the internal medicine community published several articles (1–3) noting...

Back to the future: redesign of the anesthesiology residency curriculum.

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Much to Do about Nothing

I n the popular literature there is a certain fascination with the concept of zero [1]–[3]. While today the inconspicuous 0 is taken for granted, the situation was different in the distant past. For example, the Romans had no symbol for 0, a fact memorialized by the jump from 1 B.C. to 1 A.D., a convention instituted in 531 A.D. [4, p. 91]. In contrast, the Mayans had a symbol for zero, and the...

The effects of residency practice redesign on providers and staff.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Practice redesign is one of the core principles of the Patient-centered Medical Home. Little is known about how such large-scale changes in a residency practice affect the providers and staff involved. METHODS Focus groups were conducted with residents, faculty, and medical support staff of a redesigned practice to determine the factors that contributed to the succes...