Owing to a chronic shortage of medical staff in South Africa, sleep-deprived medical interns and community service doctors work up to 200 hours of overtime per month under the state's commuted overtime policy. Nurses moonlight in circumvention of the Basic Conditions of Employment Act. For trainee doctors, overtime over 80 hours is unpaid, and rendered involuntarily under threat of not qualifyi...

Purpose: To date, few interprofessional education initiatives have included just medicine and pharmacy learners. This research sought to explore learners’ facilitators’ views of an medicines pilot study involving medical students interns. Methods: Qualitative feedback was gathered from the participating learners a facilitator focus group undertaken. Results: Medical student intern reported enjo...

OBJECTIVE To determine the prevalence of psychiatric morbidity and burnout in final-year medical students, and changes in these measures during the intern year. DESIGN Prospective longitudinal cohort study over 18 months, with assessment of psychiatric morbidity and burnout on six occasions. PARTICIPANTS All 117 students in the first graduating cohort of the University of Sydney Graduate Me...

Dr. Tran is Assistant Clinical Professor at St. John’s University and Clinical Pharmacy Manager at New York–Presbyterian Hospital/ Columbia University Medical Center in New York City. Hanlin Li is a fi nal-year doctor of pharmacy candidate at St. John’s University College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences, in Jamaica, New York. She is also a pharmacy intern at New York–Presbyterian Hospital–Weill...

U S teaching hospitals orient interns each year, usually in the summer months (June July). These new physicians have usually just finished with their medical school training and do not have any other clinical experience outside of medical school (i.e., without supervision). They are asked to begin seeing patients on day 1 of their internship without having formed relationships with other clinic...

NY), accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), became approved by the American Osteopathic Association (AOA). The first class completed osteopathic medical training in 1998. This combined osteopathic and allopathic family medicine residency is used here to illustrate key issues and trends facing dually accredited family practice residency programs and osteo...