HYPOTHESIS Presenting the opinions of surgical residents about the appeal of trauma surgery as a specialty may influence current reform. DESIGN Survey study. SETTING Academic research. PARTICIPANTS General surgery residents (postgraduate years 1-5 and recent graduates) registered with the American College of Surgeons. INTERVENTIONS A 22-item survey. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Career plans ...

The Department of Anesthesiology at the University of Toledo has been blessed to have had two pioneers in the specialty of anesthesia as faculty members. John (Tom) T. Martin, M.D. was the second Chairman of the Department and a world expert who literally wrote the book on Positioning in Anesthesia and Surgery and associated nerve injuries. He was a prolific writer authoring or co-authoring 48 ...

BACKGROUND The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) implemented revisions to resident duty hour requirements (DHRs) in 2011 to improve patient safety and resident well-being. Perceptions of DHRs have been reported to vary by training stage and specialty among internal medicine and general surgery residents. The authors explored perceptions of DHRs among all residents at ...

The United States faces the simultaneous challenges of improving health care access and balancing the specialty and geographic distribution of physicians. A 2014 Institute of Medicine report recommended significant changes in Medicare graduate medical education (GME) funding, to incentivize innovation and increase accountability for meeting national physician workforce needs. Annually, nearly $...

The health problems of populations living and working on Guatemalan farms have generally been neglected. Nevertheless, many resident farm populations are larger than the populations of some towns and villages that enjoy a health center staffed by a resident physician. Fortunately, there are now signs that in some places, at least, the situation is changing. Quite in contrast to the stereotyped ...

BACKGROUND Despite the great influence International Medical Experiences (IMs) can have on young physicians and their impact on patients and communities, they are not offered in all training programs and are at risk of being reduced in some due to stringent guidelines for funding of graduate medical education. DISCUSSION IMs provide unique experiences in clinical, epidemiologic, cultural, and...

Surgical residents face significant demands to obtain the requisite skills and knowledge for their specialty by time they graduate. Structured, guided, deliberate learning in a manner that is reproducible crucial surgical resident success ensuring will be able meet increasing of clinical practice. Use an organized planning tool, such as PERFECT (Position, Exposure, Reduction, Fixation, Evaluati...

Increasing the amount and quality of family medicine research has long been a goal of the specialty. The Future of Family Medicine project endorses the generation of new knowledge and promotes scholarship during residency training. Formal training in the principles of research needs to be initiated early to create the cadre of highly trained researchers that will be required to accomplish this ...

Our purpose is to examine strategies or countermeasures resident-physicians used in dealing with the effects of sleep loss and fatigue during residency training. A total of 149 residents across five sites and six specialty areas were recruited for the study. Focus groups consisted of an average of 7 individuals in the same year of training and residency program, and included 60 interns and 89 s...