OBJECTIVE To determine the general status of sports medicine training in internal medicine residency programmes in the United States. METHODS A cross sectional survey of the programme directors and chief residents of each of the 407 accredited internal medicine programmes listed in the 1999-2000 Graduate Medical Education Directory. RESULTS The questionnaire was returned by 231 of 404 (57%)...

OBJECTIVES Our primary aim was to evaluate the impact of US National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded bioethics training programmes (Fogarty bioethics training programmes, FBTPs) that trained individuals from Africa over the programme's first 10 years to examine changes between pretraining and post-training in individual achievement and to document any associations between individual, training...

CONTEXT Educators across Canada are presently discussing whether the current 4-year residency programmes adequately prepare paediatricians for their future careers. Studies carried out in the USA have repeatedly shown areas of weakness in residency training, but there are no studies looking at the overall adequacy of training across Canada. OBJECTIVES To assess practising paediatricians' perc...