Unlike many other adult specialties, US News & World Report does not rank dermatology residency programs annually. We conducted a study to rank individual US dermatology residency programs based on set criteria. For each residency program, data from 2008 related to a number of factors were collected, including annual amount of National Institutes of Health (NIH) and Dermatology Foundation (DF) ...

According to the Hawaiʻi Physician Workforce Assessment Project, Hawaiʻi currently has a physician shortage of 600, with an impending shortage of up to 1,600 physicians by the year 2020. A way to offset this growing situation is by supporting University of Hawaiʻi residency programs to train future physicians. To better understand the contributions that these residency programs make to the comm...

UNLABELLED The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) has approved a "new" residency: dual Certification in Interventional Radiology (IR) / Diagnostic Radiology (DR). This IR/DR program intends to better prepare future IR doctors. Residency programs can apply for the IR/DR program beginning in 2015, with full nationwide implementation of the IR/DR residency likely to ramp up by 2022. The ...

*Colonel, US Army (Ret); Ophthalmology Residency Program Director, Department of Ophthalmology, The Washington Hospital Center, Washington, DC 20010, and Professor of Surgery, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, 4301 Jones Bridge Road, Bethesda, Maryland, 20814-4799; formerly, Consultant in Ophthalmology to The Surgeon General, US Army, and Ophthalmology Residency Program Dire...

CONTEXT Residency directors require myriad skills to perform their jobs efficiently. However, many residency directors receive no training prior to obtaining their positions. OBJECTIVE To determine the effectiveness of the Residency Directors Residency Administration Program (RD RAP)--a 1-year fellowship training program for Ohio osteopathic residency directors sponsored by the Ohio Universit...

Several factors are associated with residency programs (1). For the assessment process of the residency program, applicants’ official transcripts, curriculum vitae, personal letters, references, and performance at interviews are usually used (1). Orthopedic residency selection is affected by program and staff reputation as well as by hospital facilities provided by the institution (1). Social a...

Introduction: It has been shown that there is a strong correlation between training and improving the Radiation Oncology Medical Physicist (ROMP) and an Oncology Department Quality Management plans. The Reza Radiotherapy and Oncology Centre (RROC) beside of its development plan, has recently implemented a comprehensive in-site training plan based on ROMPs abilities and the Depa...

OBJECTIVE To identify barriers to completing and publishing pharmacy residency research projects from the perspective of program directors and former residents. METHODS This was a cross-sectional survey of pharmacy residency program directors and former post-graduate year one and two residents. Directors of pharmacy residency programs whose residents present their projects at the Western Stat...

OBJECTIVE To determine Internal Medicine residency program compliance with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education 80% pass-rate standard and the correlation between residency program size and performance on the American Board of Internal Medicine Certifying Examination. METHODS Using a cross-sectional study design from 2010-2012 American Board of Internal Medicine Certifying...

INTRODUCTION Choosing a residency program is a stressful and important decision. Doximity released residency program rankings by specialty in September 2014. This study sought to investigate the impact of those rankings on residency application choices made by fourth year medical students. METHODS A 12-item survey was administered in October 2014 to fourth year medical students at three schoo...