OBJECTIVES To determine if a dedicated teaching attending for medical student education improves medical student, attending physician, and resident perceptions and satisfaction. METHODS Two dedicated teaching attending physician shifts were added to the clinical schedule each week. A before-after trial compared medical student evaluations from 2000 to 2004 (preteaching attending physician) to...

SOCIAL CHANGE AND CITIZEN INVOLVEMENT IN MODEL CITIES Margie Kaminsky Submitted to the Department of City and Regional Planning on May 17, 1968 in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of City Planning. The thesis examines citizen involvement and some of the possibilities for its operation within the framework of the national Model Cities program. "Social change" is u...

BACKGROUND Sharing information is crucial for discussion of problems and treatment decision making by patients and physicians. However, the focus of communication skills training in undergraduate medical education has been on building the relationship and gathering information; thus, resident physicians tend to be less confident about sharing information and planning treatment. This study evalu...

OBJECTIVE Pressures on academic faculty to perform beyond their role as educators has stimulated interest in complementary approaches in resident medical education. While fellows are often believed to detract from resident learning and experience, we describe our preliminary investigations utilizing clinical fellows as a positive force in pediatric resident education. Our objectives were to imp...

INTRODUCTION Patient satisfaction is a commonly assessed dimension of emergency department (ED) care quality. The ability of ED clinicians to estimate patient satisfaction is unknown. We sought to evaluate the ability of emergency medicine resident physicians and nurses to predict patient-reported satisfaction with physician and nursing care, pain levels, and understanding of discharge instruct...

BACKGROUND Mock oral board exams, fashioned after the live patient hour of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology exam, are commonly part of resident assessment during residency training. Exams using real patients selected from clinics or hospitals are not standardized and do not allow comparisons of resident performance across the residency program. We sought to create a standardized p...

This study is aimed to explore whether professional exhaustion among caregivers working in nursing homes causes an increased perception of resident aggressiveness and a lower satisfaction the relationship between caregiver resident. The data were collected from sample 52 nurses retirement homes. We compared relational 26 caregivers 26 without condition, using Maslach Burnout Inventory, Yudofsky...

OBJECTIVE To compare a clinical nurse specialist/neonatal practitioner (CNS/NP) team with a pediatric resident team in the delivery of neonatal intensive care. DESIGN Randomized, controlled trial. SETTING A 33-bed tertiary-level neonatal intensive care unit. PATIENTS Of 821 infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit between September 1991 and September 1992, 414 were randomized ...