PURPOSE The impact of subspecialty fellowship training on research productivity among academic plastic surgeons is unknown. The authors' aim of this study was to (1) describe the current fellowship representation in academic plastic surgery and (2) evaluate the relationship between h-index and subspecialty fellowship training by experience and type. METHODS Academic plastic surgery faculty (N...

I n November 2011 and in March 2012, the American Board of Nuclear Medicine (ABNM), SNM, American College of Nuclear Medicine (ACNM), and Nuclear Medicine Residency Review Committee (NM RRC) of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) challenged a recent change to the diagnostic radiology (DR) residency program requirements and proposed changes to the nuclear radiology f...

This article describes how the establishment and existence of a forensic psychiatry fellowship program was associated with improvements in general psychiatry residents' scores on the Psychiatry Resident In-training Examination (PRITE). Four consecutive years of general psychiatry residents' PRITE scores spanning 2 years before and 2 years after implementation of the forensic fellowship program ...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this paper is to summarise the new psychiatry Fellowship programme and its rationale, highlighting the new inclusions, revised assessment structure, the benefits and structure of the programme. CONCLUSIONS The 2012 Fellowship programme is based on the CanMEDs educational framework. The Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) underwent a compreh...

Neurohospitalists are an emerging subspecialty group in neurology.(1) A recent survey of neurohospitalists found 75% of respondents had completed general neurology residency plus additional fellowship training (54% vascular neurology, 13% neurocritical care, and 33% other).(2) A limited number of neurohospitalist fellowship positions(3,4) are offered in the United States, however, a standardize...

The History of the Austrian-Swiss-German Traveling Fellowship The Austrian-Swiss-German (ASG) Traveling Fellowship was established in 1979; Karl Zweymüller from Austria, Alex Staubli from Switzerland, and Günter Janssen and Udo Rodegerdts from Germany were the first fellows chosen by their respective national societies to travel to different renowned centers in the United Kingdom, Canada, and t...