OBJECTIVE Resident work hour restrictions have been mandated in the USA largely out of concern that sleep deprivation compromises doctor performance and patient care. However, individuals' ability to recognise the effects of sleep deprivation has not been studied in medical education. We examined the perceived impact of sleep deprivation among different groups of postgraduate medical trainees. ...

OBJECTIVE To develop a valid and reliable assessment tool for endoscopic sinus surgery (ESS). MATERIAL AND METHODS Data were collected prospectively in an observational study through evaluations at two tertiary academic institutions, i.e. St. Paul's Sinus Centre, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and King Fahd Medical City, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, from December 2006 to D...

Adverse events in surgery have highlighted the importance of non-technical skills, such as communication, decision-making, teamwork, situational awareness and leadership, to effective organizational performance. These skills carry particular importance to surgical oncology, as members of a multidisciplinary team must work cohesively to formulate effective patient care plans. Several non-technic...

background: medical professionalism helps physicians adopt a proper and good healing action for the patients based on their particular circumstance. this study was conducted to assess professionalism in surgical residents, using a 360-degree evaluation technique in several teaching hospitals in tehran, iran. methods: this study was conducted on all the second and third year surgery residents fr...

OBJECTIVE To pilot test if Orthopaedic Surgery residents could self-assess their performance using newly created milestones, as defined by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education. METHODS In June 2012, an email was sent to Program Directors and administrative coordinators of the 154 accredited Orthopaedic Surgery Programs, asking them to send their residents a link to an onlin...

This article evaluates and describes a process of ranking orthopedic applicants using what the authors term the Aggregate Interview Method. The authors hypothesized that higher-ranking applicants using this method at their institution would perform better than those ranked lower using multiple measures of resident performance. A retrospective review of 115 orthopedic residents was performed at ...

OBJECTIVE The American Board of Ophthalmology in conjunction with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education has mandated the systematic assessment of surgical competence of ophthalmology residents at all residency programs. We present a tool complementary to the Objective Assessment of Skills in Intraocular Surgery (OASIS) to assess residents' surgical competence. PARTICIPANTS ...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS The goal of our study is to identify the number of Endoscopic Sinus Surgery (ESS) cases required to obtain competency in ESS, using a previously validated assessment tool. STUDY DESIGN Prospective observational study. METHODS Seventeen residents from Johns Hopkins Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery residency program were evaluated as they performed endoscopic sinus sur...