As a Center Director for one of the NIOSH Agricultural Centers as well as a Program Director for an accredited Occupational Medicine Residency Program, I am invited from time to time to review other programs. I consider it a real privilege when this level of trust is placed in me to judge the quality of a residency training program. Teaching the specialty of Occupational Medicine to physicians ...

BACKGROUND Although program evaluation is a core requirement of Internal Medicine residencies, little is reported in the literature regarding resident satisfaction with training. Most program evaluation consists of numerical rating scales from which it is often difficult to pinpoint exact sources of dissatisfaction. METHODS Our goal in this work is to evaluate the utility of focus group metho...

PURPOSES The purposes of this study were to: (1) investigate the current clinical practice regarding the use of antibiotic prophylaxis by pediatric dentistry residency program directors and pediatric hematologists for children with sickle cell disease (SCD) requiring dental treatment; and (2) evaluate the perceived relative risk of bacteremia following specific dental procedures, as defined by ...

We report our experience at the University of Florida in which residents and fellows served as the inspection team for a College of American Pathologists (CAP) self-inspection. We aimed to determine whether the CAP self-inspection could serve as a learning opportunity for pathology residents and fellows. To prepare for the inspection, we provided a series of 4 lunchtime seminars covering numero...

RATIONALE AND OBJECTIVES The Association of Program Directors in Radiology regularly surveys its members regarding issues of importance to support radiology residency programs and their directors. MATERIALS AND METHODS This is an observational cross-sectional study using two Web-based surveys posed to the Association of Program Directors in Radiology membership in the fall of 2014 (49 items) ...

Strengthening Primary Health Care (PHC) relies directly on training medical specialists in primary care. This text aims to report the Family Medicine training experiences in Rio de Janeiro between 2008 and 2016. It brings to reflection the development of preceptors in medical specialization through an experience report on three Family Medicine medical residency programs, namely, the Municipal H...

This article provides a theoretical and practical rational for the implementation of an innovative and comprehensive social wellness program in a surgical residency program at a large safety net hospital on the East Coast of the United States. Using basic needs theory, we describe why it is particularly important for surgical residency programs to consider the residents sense of competence, aut...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) is a useful diagnostic procedure to evaluate patients with upper gastrointestinal complaints. Although family physicians have demonstrated that they can competently perform EGD, only a minority of family physicians perform EGD. This study determined the current state of EGD training in US family practice residency programs and how often...

Background: Internal Medicine (IM) is one of the main medical specialties. In this paper, the features of the Iranian IM residency training program, duties and salary were evaluated and compared with some countries. Methods: Using the Iranian Ministry of Health and Medical Education (IMHME) directive, the features of educational curriculum, compulsory working hours, duties and salary were extra...

OBJECTIVE The authors assessed whether current methods of evaluating residency applicants and residents identify psychiatrists who later develop evidence of impairment. METHOD Residency admissions and performance data for all physicians who were enrolled in a psychiatry residency between 1965 and 1994 and who were referred to an impaired physician program up to 35 years later were matched for...