Orthopedic surgery residency training is a difficult endeavor, and the selection of residents that will perform well in a rigorous training program is challenging for residency program directors. Even defining a "great" resident is a difficult endeavor. However, there are certain qualities that anecdotally are associated with high-performing residents, which include being trustworthy, hard-work...

Background: We set out to compare resident perspective regarding self-rated ability to perform abortion procedures, abortion attitudes and satisfaction with training at programs with routine and optional abortion training. Methods: We distributed surveys and conducted 1-h focus groups for 62 residents at six New York City OB/GYN programs; three offer routine abortion training. We compared resid...

BACKGROUND Residents are stakeholders in the debate surrounding duty hour restrictions, yet few studies have assessed their perspective on their programs' efforts to comply with them. OBJECTIVES This paper explores learners' perceptions of the attributes of their programs in relation to duty hour compliance, and looks for evidence whether residents view duty hour limits as important to patien...

In the NP-hard Hospital Residents problem with lower and upper quotas ( HR-Q L U ), goal is to find a stable matching of residents hospitals where number matched hospital either between its quota or zero. We analyze this from parameterized complexity perspective using several natural parameters such as residents. Moreover, answering an open question Biró et al. [TCS 2010], we present involved p...

Social work with older people deals with improving their capacity and ability to face and resolve problems, and with raising awareness and encouraging their environment to maintain relational networks. Based on research regarding social work with older people this paper presents the historical aspect of older people's position within the development of institutional care for older people in Slo...

Background Previous studies described attending physicians' perceptions of the benefits and downsides of having the electronic health record (EHR) in the room during a clinical encounter. The perspective of residents has received little attention. Objective The goal of this project was to solicit internal medicine residents' perception of EHR use in primary care clinic visits. In this report, ...

background: pain has been one of the most debilitating symptoms of cancer. the aim of this study was to evaluate residents' knowledge, attitude, and practice regarding pain control in cancer patients. methods: in a descriptive study, 69 randomly selected third-year various residents practicing in teaching hospitals of shahid beheshti school of medicine participated in this study. they have prov...