Interest is growing in global health among surgical residents and medical students. This article explores the newly developing concept of "global surgery." Providing surgical care to resource-limited populations, often found in low- and middle-income countries, has numerous professional and personal developmental benefits. A significant interest is found among most general surgical residents; h...

BACKGROUND Although progress in science has driven advances in addiction medicine, this subject has not been adequately taught to medical trainees and physicians. As a result, there has been poor integration of evidence-based practices in addiction medicine into physician training which has impeded addiction treatment and care. Recently, a number of training initiatives have emerged internation...

IMPORTANCE Surgical training in dermatology residencies has increased, and there is growing interest in measuring resident competence more precisely. This study applies the use of the objective structured assessment of technical skills (OSATS) to measure competence in dermatologic surgery. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the utility of OSATS as a tool for measuring surgery skills during dermatology res...

PURPOSE We conducted this study to determine the preferences of anesthesia residents training in Canada for fellowship training, research, and future practice location and to identify the factors that influence those preferences. METHODS Using a cross-sectional study design, a survey was sent to all anesthesia residents enrolled at an accredited Canadian anesthesiology residency program (N = ...

To the Editor: There is ongoing litigation about whether the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) restrains competition for residents and suppresses wages. 1 Although the legal issues have been discussed in detail, 2,3 the basic economic question is whether a market organized by a match results in lower wages than if there were no match. We compared similar markets for postgraduate medical...

OBJECTIVE To examine in detail the geographic distribution of reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI) fellowships in the United States. DESIGN Ecological. SETTING University-based REI fellowship program. PATIENT(S) None. INTERVENTION(S) None. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURE(S) Number and location of REI fellowship positions. RESULT(S) A significant association was found between the nu...

Objective: To determine the perceptions of general surgery PDs (program directors) concerning the necessity for HPB (hepatopancreatobiliary) fellowships to practicing HPB surgery. Methods: A 22-question electronic survey was sent to 250 general surgery PDs recognized by the American Association of Medical Colleges in the United States regarding the experience and competency of graduating genera...

The Nutrition Obesity Research Center (NORC) at the University of Alabama at Birmingham announces the availability of post-doctoral fellowships funded through the NIH T32 grant (T32DK062710) awarded to Dr. David Allison by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK). The funds from this grant may be used only for US Citizens or permanent residents. In very rare ...

Within the world of medicine, the advent of new treatments and new technology has resulted in an increase in the number of specialties and subspecialties. This is especially true in neurology. A widely quoted article has demonstrated that 74% of neurology residents will do a fellowship (Larson et al., 2000), and given that the survey was done over 10 years ago, the number increased, as the most...