Upon graduation from medical school, medical students join residency programs to complete their clinical training and fulfill specialty board certification requirements. During residency, they are assigned several years of clinical rotations, where they work under the supervision of physician faculty in a variety of different settings, to ensure that they gain the requisite training prior to be...

The paradigm introduced by William Halsted for surgical residency training has been considered the most appropriate educational system to acquire the knowledge and surgical skills required to become a competent general surgeon. Hepato-pancreato-biliary (HPB) surgery is considered an important part of general surgery training because of its high prevalence and complexity. Nowadays, we are faced ...

Increasing the quality and quantity of geriatric medicine training for family practice residents is a particular challenge for community-based programs. With support from the John A. Hartford Foundation of New York City, the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) implemented in 1995 a multi-part project to improve the amount and quality of geriatric medicine education received by family p...

The majority of pathology residency training programs in the United States are considered to be small training programs. Small training programs, regardless of specialty, encounter unique challenges that have been documented in the literature. With the implementation of the Next Accreditation System (NAS), and other Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Common Program Req...

Thank you for considering the University of Kansas Medical Center for your residency/fellowship training. Choosing a residency program is one of the most important decisions of your medical career. In order to facilitate your application process at KUMC we recommend you review the following link http://www.kumc.edu/school-of-medicine/gme/prospective-residentsfellows.html which is located on the...

BACKGROUND Between July 1, 2000, and July 1, 2002, the Residency Review Committee for Family Practice had received requests for voluntary withdrawal from 27 residency programs. This number represents a significant increase in the rate of program closure over previous years. OBJECTIVES We compared descriptive data on these closing programs and explored factors contributing to the closure. ME...