BACKGROUND The postgraduate training program in psychiatry in Saudi Arabia, which was established in 1997, is a 4-year residency program. Written exams comprising of multiple choice questions (MCQs) are used as a summative assessment of residents in order to determine their eligibility for promotion from one year to the next. Test blueprints are not used in preparing examinations. OBJECTIVE T...

BACKGROUND Although international medical graduates (IMGs) are essential in health care service delivery, a gap exists in the literature about how IMGs are selected into psychiatry residency programs in Canada. The purpose of this study was to identify the relative weight or importance that Canadian program directors (PDs) of psychiatry place on certain selection criteria when matching IMGs int...

BACKGROUND Extending the residency curriculum to 4 years has been proposed as a logical innovation in response to the Future of Family Medicine Report given the increasing complexity of medical care and reduction in available training time due to duty hour restrictions. Middlesex Hospital, a participant in the P⁴ Initiative, is the first family medicine residency program to require a comprehens...

OBJECTIVE Little is known about the factors important to applicants when selecting an emergency medicine residency. We sought to identify which residency-specific criteria applicants value in selecting a training program. METHODS We conducted an anonymous survey of emergency medicine interviewees at our residency. Applicants were asked to rate each of 18 factors on a four-point scale from 1 (...

I n November 2011 and in March 2012, the American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM), SNM, American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM), and Nuclear Medicine Residency Review Committee (NM RRC) of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) challenged a recent change to the diagnostic radiology (DR) residency program requirements and proposed changes to the nuclear radiology f...

1Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA 2Department of Emergency Medicine, Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine Residency Program, Stanford, CA, USA 3Department of Emergency Medicine, Kaiser Permanente Medical Group, Santa Clara, CA, USA *Corresponding author Ian D. Chong, MD Department of Emergency Medicine Stanford/Kaiser Emergency Medicine R...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to assess medical students' knowledge of and attitudes toward the two Canadian emergency medicine (EM) residency programs (Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians of Canada [FRCPC] and Certificant of the College of Family Physicians-Emergency Medicine [CCFP-EM]). Additionally, medical students interested in EM were asked to select factors affecting t...

OBJECTIVES To describe the administrative functioning of all current Canadian psychiatry residency training programs (RTPs) and to suggest available improvements to existing systems. METHOD We obtained data about the 2004 RTPs by distributing 2 questionnaires to all Canadian psychiatry RTPs. RESULTS Residency program committees (RPCs) are mainly consultative and carry only a small amount of...

IMPORTANCE JAMA Dermatology Practice Gaps commentaries are intended to aid in the interpretation of the literature to make it more practical and applicable to daily patient care. Practice Gaps commentaries have had an impact on physician clinical practice and dermatology residency curricula. OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of JAMA Dermatology Practice Gaps commentaries on dermatology residency...