Background: Emergency Medicine is the youngest Danish medical specialty, finally adopted in 2017 with first residents enrolled 2018. The residency consists of 1 year introduction employment a primary spanning 5 years after year. 1-year program different setups time certain specialty areas, encompassing specialties internal medicine, abdominal surgery and orthopedic surgery. education programs c...

In response to the special focus section on patient safety and quality improvement, I am writing to introduce a potentially new area of focus for quality improvement regarding resident education. I am a resident physician in a program that depends on a consortium of 4 hospital systems for training, 3 of which are private hospitals. I have no background in economics, but I have been perceptive e...

CONTEXT Studies analyzing the physician workforce have concluded that the United States is verging on a physician oversupply, yet we lack persuasive evidence that this is resulting in physician underemployment and/or unemployment. OBJECTIVE To determine the degree to which graduating residents have difficulty finding or are unable to find employment in their primary career choices. DESIGN T...

background: owing to the growing importance of medicines in treatment of diseases, as well as their role as alternatives for expensive and often unsafe procedures; economic examination of factors associated with their demand is necessary. hence, this study aimed at exploring factors affecting the demand of specialty medicines.   methods: in this descriptive-analytic study, data was collected fr...

As health care advances over the next decades, it is important for the specialty of Child Neurology to remain at the forefront of investigations related to the understanding of disease processes that affect the nervous system of infants, children, and adolescents and to the development of improved evidencebased treatment options. Key to this process is the dissemination of new knowledge not jus...

Introduction: Urological education and exposure for medical students is imperative as we face a growing geriatric population with increased urological needs. Previous research has examined American Association (AUA) program director opinions of student exposure, but no surveys have been directed at current students. The purpose this study to quantify urology determine precipitating factors that...

INTRODUCTION Studies indicate that using interventions including education may improve medical record documentation and decrease incomplete files. Since physicians play a crucial role in medical record documentation, the researchers intend to examine the effect of educational intervention on physicians' performance and knowledge about principles of medical diagnosis recording among residents in...

The results of the 2009 National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) reflect a persistently low level of student interest in family medicine residency training in the United States. Compared with the 2008 Match, 70 fewer positions (with 89 fewer US seniors) were filled in family medicine residency programs through the NRMP in 2009, at the same time that 18 fewer positions were filled in primary ca...

In 2004, the University of Michigan Medical School reduced its gross anatomy curriculum. To determine the effect of this reduction on resident perceptions of their clinical preparedness, we surveyed alumni that included residents from the original and new shortened curricula. A Likert-scale survey was sent to four classes of alumni. Respondents were compared in old curriculum (OC) and new curri...