I ntegrated plastic surgery is among the most competitive specialties in medicine. In 2015, there were 67 integrated plastic surgery residency programs, offering 148 training positions, with 206 applicants for these positions. 1 Geography plays a significant role in applicants' decision as to where to apply. An association between residents' matriculated medical school and residency program has...

OBJECTIVE To investigate and characterize the professional stereotypes associated with general medicine and surgery among Brazilian medical residents. METHODS A randomized sample of residents of the General Medicine and Surgery Residence Programs were interviewed and their perceptions and views of general and surgical doctors were compared. RESULTS The general practitioner was characterized...

BACKGROUND To date, there is no published data showing a correlation between the National Residency Matching Program Ranklist position and performance in residency. PURPOSE The background was to assess whether a residency applicant selection process is able to predict the subsequent performance of candidates during residency. METHODS Over a period of 3 academic years, resident candidates we...

Objective. To assess the impact of gynecology residents' previous laparoscopic experience on the learning curve of robotic suturing techniques and the value of initial structured teaching in dry lab prior to surgery. Methods. Thirteen gynecology residents with no previous robotic surgery experience were divided into Group 1, consisting of residents with 2 or fewer laparoscopic experiences, and ...

In this paper, we propose and compare two video slicebased discard schemes, namely adaptive-PSD and Adaptive-ESD, for the transmission of MPEG video streams overATM best effort services. The schemes perform adaptive and selective cell burst discard at the level of MPEG video slices and intelligently adjusts drop policies to switch buffer occupancy and video cell payload types. In comparison to ...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether simulation training improves resident competency in the management of a simulated vaginal breech delivery. METHODS Without advance notice or training, residents from 2 obstetrics and gynecology residency programs participated in a standardized simulation scenario of management of an imminent term vaginal breech delivery. The scenario used an obstetric birth simu...

PURPOSE To establish a teaching program for the performance of endoscopic extraperitoneal radical prostatectomy (EERPE) that would ascertain the safe and efficacious training of residents with no previous experience with open pelvic surgery. MATERIALS AND METHODS The technique of EERPE was divided in 12 segments with 5 levels of difficulty. We thus designed a training program, where the resid...

BackgroundSurgical simulation-based training (SBT) can increase resident confidence and improve performance. SBT in pediatric surgery is its infancy often geared toward fellows. Since case volume for various surgery–specific procedures be low based on the rarity of pathology involved level care provided by institution, our aim was to create a curriculum general residents address this need.Mater...

We present the Preemptive Bandwidth Allocation Multicast Protocol; a distributed multicast QoS-aware signaling protocol that adapts the users’ bandwidth requirements to the limited resources available in the network by preempting bandwidth of less prioritized streams from existing multicast groups. We assume that each multicast group will have different multicast streams with predefined quality...