Since the introduction of core competencies by Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) evaluation trainees, there has been a shift from time-based to competency-based training.1Swing S.R. The ACGME Outcome Project: retrospective and prospective.Med Teach. 2007; 29: 648-654Crossref PubMed Scopus (608) Google Scholar With that change, alternative pathways traditional training...

BACKGROUND Both research and clinical medicine requires similar attributes of efficiency, diligence and effective teamwork. Furthermore, residents must succeed at scholarship and patient care to be competitive for fellowship training. It is unknown whether research productivity among residents is related to broad measures of clinical achievement. Our goal was to examine associations between the...

introduction: today, development of professionalism is a critical aim of medical schools. studies have demonstrated that medical students’ perceived level of professionalism is inadequate worldwide. this study aimed to investigate the medical students’ perceptions of their colleagues’ professional behavior. methods: this study is a cross-sectional study with 280 medical students at shiraz unive...

Board certification is at a critical juncture. As physicians face increased regulation and pressures from both inside and outside the profession, board certification and Maintenance of Certification (MOC) are coming under increased scrutiny from the public and the medical community. At this challenging time, it is important to remind ourselves what board certification is (and what it is not) an...

Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) consists of small nodes with constrain capabilities. It enables numerous applications with distributed network infrastructure. With its nature and application scenario, security of WSN had drawn a great attention. In malicious environments for a functional WSN, security mechanisms are essential. Malicious or internal attacker has gained attention as the most chal...

U ntil last year, the nephrology community had but a single uniform measure of competency achieved as the result of nephrology fellowship training: The American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) subspecialty examination, which can be taken only after completion of nephrology subspecialty training. There had also been little published recently regarding current national nephrology fellowship tra...

BACKGROUND Professionalism and communication skills constitute important components of the integral formation of physicians which has repercussion on the quality of health care and medical education. The objective of this study was to assess medical graduates' professionalism and communication skills from the patients' perspective and to examine its association with patients' socio-demographic ...

The Writing Committee was selected to represent the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and the American Society of Nuclear Cardiology (ASNC) and included a cardiovascular training program director; a nuclear cardiology training program director; earlycareer experts; highly experienced specialists in both academic and community-based practice settings; and physicians experienced in defining an...

The writing committee was selected to represent the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and included a cardiovascular training program director, an earlycareer cardiologist, highly experienced members representing both academic and community-based practice settings, and physicians experienced in defining and applying training standards according to the core competencies structure promulgated b...

The writing committee was selected to represent the American College of Cardiology (ACC) and included a cardiovascular training program director, a cardiology clinic director, early-career cardiovascular disease (CVD) prevention experts, highly experienced specialists representing both the academic and community-based practice settings, a physician experienced in defining and applying training ...