INTRODUCTION Upon inquiring with medical students and urologists across Canada, it is evident that urology is perceived as a male-dominant specialty, among other stereotypes. These misperceptions may hamper the recruitment of the best and brightest trainees. With that in mind, we surveyed medical students at our institution to obtain an objective assessment of their perception of urology and to...

BACKGROUND Patient-provider relationships in primary care are characterized by greater continuity and depth than in non-primary care specialties. We hypothesized that relationship styles of medical students based on attachment theory are associated with specialty choice factors and that such factors will mediate the association between relationship style and ultimately matching in a primary car...

d T n ( URPOSE: The Mount Sinai Surgical Residency program ses physician assistants and nurse practitioners, jointly termed on-physician practitioners (NPPs), to adhere to the 80-hour ork-week restrictions implemented by Accreditation Council f Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) resident duty hour equirements initiated in 2003. A survey was performed to deermine how the integration of NPPs into...

1 Surgical and Specialty Service at the Fundación Cardioinfantil Instituto de Cardiología (FCI – IC) in Bogotá, Colombia 2 General and Laparoscopic Surgeon at the Clínica VIP in Bogotá, Colombia 3 Abdominal Organ Transplant Surgeon in the Abdominal Organ Transplant Department at the Ochsner Clinic in New Orleans, LA USA 4 Resident IV in General Surgery at the Universidad de la Sábana in Bogotá,...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES There are multiple procedural skills common to all residency programs. This study had two main objectives: (1) Use an interdisciplinary team to develop a procedural competency checklist for adult endotracheal intubation that could be shared across specialty programs and levels of training and (2) Evaluate the validity and reliability of the checklist. METHODS Clinica...

In the early 1980s, the specialty was grappling with the decision to lengthen EM residency from 24 to 36 months. The American College of Emergency Physicians commissioned the “Length of Training Report,” which assessed likely resident clinical experience for 283 important clinical entities during a 24 month residency. Based in part on this analysis, the minimum requirement for EM residency trai...