Primary care residency programs and their associated primary care clinics face challenges in their goal to simultaneously provide a good education for tomorrow's doctors and excellent care for today's patients. A team from the Center for Excellence in Primary Care at the University of California, San Francisco, conducted site visits to 23 family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatric reside...

BACKGROUND In Kuwait, 21 residency training programs were offered in the year 2011; however, no data is available regarding the criteria of selecting residents for these programs. This study aims to provide information about the importance of these criteria. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire was used to collect data from members (e.g. chairmen, directors, assistants …etc.) of residenc...

CONTEXT Progressively more osteopathic graduates are seeking training opportunities in programs accredited by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). OBJECTIVE To determine if family medicine residency training program choice (ie, allopathic [ACGME], osteopathic, or dually accredited) has an impact on professional satisfaction levels among recent osteopathic medical s...

BACKGROUND Previous trials have showed a 10-30% rate of inaccuracies on applications to individual residency programs. No studies have attempted to corroborate this on a national level. Attempts by residency programs to diminish the frequency of inaccuracies on applications have not been reported. We seek to clarify the national incidence of inaccuracies on applications to emergency medicine re...

RESULTS: The median size of a PS division was seven faculty. PS faculty had lower median publications/citations than GS and SS (PS: 25/328, GS: 35/607, SS: 40/713, p < 0.05). Publication (P) and citation (C) differences were observed at all ranks: assistant professor (PS: 11/101, GS: 13/169, SS: 19/249), associate professor (PS: 33/342, GS: 40/691, SS: 44/780) and professor (PS: 57/968, GS: 97/...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Electronic health records (EHRs), resident duty hour restrictions, and Patient-centered Medical Home (PCMH) innovations have all impacted the clinical practices of residency programs over the past decade. The University of Washington Family Medicine Network (UWFMN) residencies have collaborated for 10 years in collecting and comparing data regarding the productivity an...

The current standards for meeting drug information (DI) requirements in American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)-accredited pharmacy practice residency (PPR) programs and the impact of changes in ASHP standards for the DI requirements were studied. In September 2002 a nine-question survey was e-mailed to the directors of all ASHP-accredited PPR programs listed with an available e-ma...

The management of anorectal disease remains a major component in the practice of the general surgeon. To assess the adequacy of general surgery residencies in addressing this educational need, data were obtained from the Residency Review Committee (RRC) for surgery on the anorectal experience of all graduating residents in accredited United States programs for a recent five-year period (1987-19...

OBJECTIVE To determine if U.S. pediatric residency programs provide formal training in vaccine safety to address parental vaccine concerns. METHODS An electronic survey was mailed to all members of the Association of Pediatric Program Directors (APPD) to assess (1) if U.S. pediatric residency programs were providing formal vaccine safety training, (2) the content and format of the training if...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There are multiple procedural skills common to all residency programs. This study had two main objectives: (1) Use an interdisciplinary team to develop a procedural competency checklist for adult endotracheal intubation that could be shared across specialty programs and levels of training and (2) Evaluate the validity and reliability of the checklist. METHODS Clinica...