To the Editor: As a fourth-year student at the West Virginia School of Osteopathic Medicine, Lewisburg, I had to choose between pursuing an American Osteopathic Association (AOA)–approved or an Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)–accredited residency program. Interestingly, my decision to pursue an ACGME-sponsored position has been met with some resistance. Therefore, I...

Proc (Bayl Univ Med Cent) 2006;19:374–385 B ob Mennel (Figure 1) was born in Trenton, New Jersey, on July 27, 1944, and grew up there. After attending parochial schools he went to St. Joseph’s College in Philadelphia, graduating in 1966, and then to the University of Pennsylvania Medical School, graduating in 1970. His internship and residency in internal medicine were at the University of Roch...

Receiving an M.D. from the Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium which was followed by his internship and residency in Neurology and Psychiatry at the ULB-Erasme Medical Center, Belgium; Dr. Serge Przedborski received his Ph.D. degree in Neurological Sciences from, ULB School of Medicine, Belgium. Subsequently, his postdoctoral research was done at Columbia University, where he became As...

this survey, evaluated the level of awareness and knowledge among the medical staff about conditions and methods of performing cardiopulmonary ressucitation. the study sampling comprised 497 subjects including 208 residents and 262 interns of ten university hospitals in tehran. in regard to the basic principles, this has been 43.54% (sd = 13.36%), in drug and fluid therapy 31.22% (gd = 13.22%),...

quality and safety of patient care remarkably depend on the competency of healthcare providers. as predominant caregivers, nurses crucially influence the quality of patient care (1). on the other hand, as major educational organizations, nursing schools must offer competent expertise to the students in order to warrant high-quality patient care. in this regard, finding efficient methods to grad...

OBJECTIVES Medical education is a continuum from medical school through residency to unsupervised clinical practice. There has been a movement toward competency-based medical education prompted by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) using milestones to assess competence. While implementation of milestones for residents sets specific standards for transition to inter...

OBJECTIVE The multiple mini-interview (MMI) has been shown to have a positive correlation with early medical school performance, clerkship evaluations, and national licensing examinations. There is limited data on its predictive validity at the postgraduate level. METHODS Six hundred and nineteen internship candidates were interviewed using the MMI format by the internal medicine residency pr...

INTRODUCTION The surgeon's formation process has changed in recent decades. The increase in medical schools, new specialties and modern technologies induce an overhaul of medical education. Medical residency in surgery has established itself as a key step in the formation of the surgeon, and represents the ideal and natural way for teaching laparoscopy. However, the introduction of laparoscopic...