BACKGROUND Otolaryngology-Head and Neck surgery resident physicians (OHNSR) have a high prevalence of burnout, job dissatisfaction and stress as shown within the literature. Formal mentorship programs (FMP) have a proven track record of enhancing professional development and academic success. More importantly FMP have an overall positive impact on residents and assist in improving job satisfact...

Disasters often overwhelm the capacity of communities and health systems to deal with the massive number of victims and the scarcity of available resources (1, 2). In crisis situations, health professionals are required to perform tasks that fall outside their routine work (3), such as mass casualty triage and management of specific populations such as refugees and internally displaced people. ...

Introduction Despite pressures for quick one-size-fits-all fixes to providing teachers with professional development, the California History-Social Science Project (CHSSP) has maintained a focus on providing long-term, subject-specific professional development. The CHSSP has sought opportunities to partner with districts, schools, and teachers so as to help build teachers' content knowledge, ac...

Information and communication technologies (ICT) have become common place entities in all aspects of life. Across the past twenty years the use of ICT has fundamentally changed the practices and procedures of nearly all forms of endeavor within business and governance. Within education, ICT has begun to have a presence but the impact has not been as extensive as in other fields. Education is a ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the ability of otolaryngology residents to rate the hypernasal resonance of patients with velopharyngeal dysfunction. We hypothesize that experience (postgraduate year [PGY] level) and training will result in improved ratings of speech samples. STUDY DESIGN Prospective cohort study. SETTING Otolaryngology training programs at 2 academic medical centers. SUBJECTS AND ME...

BACKGROUND The Society of Hospital Medicine has delineated procedures as one of the core competencies for hospitalists. Little is known about whether exposure to a medical procedure service (MPS) impacts the procedural certification rate in internal medicine trainees in a community hospital training program. OBJECTIVE To determine whether or not exposure to an MPS would impact both the number...

This article outlines the trial model in reproductive medicine that was created as a first step in the development of a business model for medical subspecialty training to complement the current academic subspecialty training in South Africa. A two-tiered training model was developed over time. The hurdles that had to be overcome were the development of a curriculum and academic capacity, acqui...

A patient's culture has an effect on her or his view of illness, decision to seek care, and adherence to treatment plans and follow-up visits. In this article, we describe community-academic partnerships designed to teach improved delivery of culturally effective care conducted in pediatric residency training programs in New York, New York, and San Diego, California. Columbia University-Childre...

Emergency medicine services and training in Emergency Medicine (EM) has developed to a large extent in developed countries but its establishment is far from optimal in developing countries. In India, Medical Council of India (MCI) has taken great steps by notifying EM as a separate specialty and so far 20 medical colleges have already initiated 3-year training program in EM. However, there has ...