PURPOSE To measure pediatric program directors' (PDs') and trainees' perceptions of and expectations for the balance of service and education in their training programs. METHOD In fall 2011, an electronic survey was sent to PDs and trainees at Boston Children's Hospital. Respondents described perceptions and expectations for service and education and rated the education and service inherent t...

BACKGROUND Concerns about duty hour and resident safety have fostered discussion about postshift fatigue and driving impairment. OBJECTIVE We assessed how converting to a night float schedule for overnight coverage affected driving safety for trainees. METHODS Brake reaction times were measured for internal medicine and orthopaedic surgery resident volunteers after a traditional 28-hour cal...

Training of microvascular anastomosis techniques comprise the major part of surgical skills, necessary for revascularization surgeries. Training can be performed in several stages based on the experience of trainees. This should mainly start with various models of artificial materials that simulate tissues. In the next stage, trainee should practice microsurgical skill on a non-living tissue mo...

INTRODUCTION The E-lefENT programme is a collaborative e-learning project developed by the Department of Health and ENTUK. Prior to its introduction, we aimed to assess current use of and attitudes towards e-learning amongst UK otolaryngology trainees. METHOD A web-based questionnaire was distributed to UK otolaryngology trainees via regional programme directors. RESULTS A total of 117 resp...

Aims and method To establish the competency of psychiatric trainees in delivering cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) to selected cases, following introductory lectures and supervision. Supervisor reports of trainees rotating through a national psychiatric hospital over 8.5 years were reviewed along with revised Cognitive Therapy Scale (CTS-R) ratings where available. Independent t-test was use...

In 2004 and 2007, the American Physiological Society (APS) Trainee Advisory Committee (TAC) conducted surveys of graduate students, postdoctoral fellows, and new investigators in physiology to identify topics and issues important to those trainees. Two major trends emerged from the data. First, trainees in 2007 expressed somewhat greater interest in professional development information than did...

conclusions sils appendectomy can be successfully performed by trainees on all-comers with comparable resource utilisation and clinical outcomes to those achieved by junior trainees performing a conventional three-port laparoscopic approach. results seventeen patients had sils operations: 15 appendectomies, one resection of inflamed meckel’s diverticulum and one appendectomy with oophorectomy. ...

Laparoscopy has found a role in standard urologic practice, and with training programs continuing to increase emphasis on its use, the division between skill sets of established non-laparoscopic urologic practitioners and urology trainees continues to widen. At the other end of the spectrum, as technology progresses apace, advanced laparoscopists continue to question the role of surgical roboti...