Increasing the quality and quantity of geriatric medicine training for family practice residents is a particular challenge for community-based programs. These programs have an average of only seven full-time equivalent physician faculty. This report summarizes results of the Residency Assistance Program/Hartford Geriatric Initiative (RAP/HGI) geriatric medicine curriculum consultations for fami...

PURPOSE The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the Residency Review Committee for Internal Medicine (RRC-IM) evaluate internal medicine residency programs using a list of 301 program requirements. The authors investigated which requirements, program demographics, and site-visitor characteristics were the strongest predictors of accreditation. METHOD The authors surveyed ...

BACKGROUND The US is home to almost 200 pediatrics residency programs; despite this, there is little information about the relationship between program characteristics and performance in the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) certifying exam. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between pass rate of the ABP certifying exam with the characteristics of categorical pediatrics residency program...

BACKGROUND Interactions with the pharmaceutical industry are known to affect the attitudes and behaviors of medical residents; however, to our knowledge, a nationally representative description of current practices has not been reported. METHODS The Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine surveyed 381 US internal medicine residency program directors in 2006-2007 regarding pharma...

OBJECTIVE To obtain a collective opinion of practicing surgeons on the current state of general surgical residency training. METHODS A data collection sheet was completed by the practicing surgeons involved in the residency training in 5 cities in Saudi Arabia, from January 2004 to December 2005. The survey questions covered mainly 3 aspects of surgical education: problems within the current ...

BACKGROUND There is a phobia among doctors for the residency training program, since the establishment of the program over 30 years ago. The reason for establishing the program was mainly to provide the much-needed specialists in medicine. OBJECTIVES To ascertain the perception of the residency training program among residents. MATERIALS AND METHODS Structured questionnaires were administer...

INTRODUCTION The major objective of a stapedotomy is the restoration of hearing. In training centers, the hearing results obtained by resident physicians are lower than those achieved by more experienced surgeons. An analysis of the surgical results obtained by resident physicians is essential to identification of the deficiencies in the learning process. OBJECTIVE To analyze the postoperativ...