BACKGROUND The role of residency program director is unique in medicine and medical education. Most program directors learn the job through trial and error, with a fortunate few benefiting from the wisdom and experience of their predecessors and mentors. In 1994, the Association of Family Practice Residency Directors (AFPRD) made the development of training and support resources for program dir...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this pilot study is to examine the association between Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) and prospective psychiatry residents. METHODS Forty-six American medical schools were contacted and asked to participate in this study. Data were collected and an aggregated list was compiled that included the following information: date of MBTI administration, academic year, MBT...

PURPOSE The results of a survey assessing the views of pharmacy directors, medical center executives, and pharmacists on the value of residency programs to their institutions are reported. METHODS In a two-phase survey entailing face-to-face interviews and the use of an electronic questionnaire, representatives of the pharmacy departments and executive staffs of eight academic medical centers...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Quality improvement (QI) has become an integral aspect of family medicine residency training. This study examines whether QI training during residency is associated with the integration of QI activities into practice following graduation. METHODS A confidential survey was delivered to South Carolina Area Health Education Consortium (SC AHEC)-associated family medicin...

PURPOSE To evaluate the perspective of ophthalmology residents in the US about their residency programs and compare the competency of residency programs to international competency levels set by the International Council of Ophthalmology (ICO). METHODS A cross-sectional web-based survey extracted from the ICO published competency standards was sent to program directors of ophthalmology reside...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family medicine residents are required to maintain a continuity practice in an approved family medicine center (FMC) and achieve minimum targets for patient encounters. In the past, minimum periods of time in the FMC were defined in the program requirements, but these have now been replaced with target numbers of patient encounters. As residency programs come under inc...

OBJECTIVE To describe a standard approach to provide a support structure for pharmacy resident research that emphasizes self-identification of a residency research project. METHODS A subcommittee of the residency advisory committee was formed at our institution. The committee was initially comprised of 2 clinical pharmacy specialists, 1 drug information pharmacist, and 2 pharmacy administrato...

BACKGROUND In 1998 we completed a successful regional pilot project in palliative care curriculum development among 32 internal medicine residency programs recruited from the mid-western United States. Between 1999 and 2004 this project was expanded to include 358 U.S. programs, from four specialties, based on new training requirements in internal medicine, family medicine, neurology, and gener...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Mismatch between program directors' expectations of medical school graduates and the experience of students in medical school has important implications for patient safety and medical education. We sought to define family medicine residency program directors' expectations of medical school graduates to independently perform various procedural skills and medical school ...

AIM Analyze and compare the openings for medical residency in Otorhinolaryngology in Ceará in 2003 along with the profile of the applicants. STUDY DESIGN cross-sectional. METHODS Data on medical residency programs in Ceará as of September 2003 were obtained electronically from the web page of the National Commission of Medical Residency (CNRM). The information regarding the applicants was r...