Background Despite a demanding work environment, information on stress and burnout of critical care fellows is limited. Objectives To assess 1) levels of burnout, perceived stress, and quality of life in critical care fellows, and 2) the impact of a brief stress management training on these outcomes. Methods In a tertiary care academic medical center, 58 critical care fellows of varying subspec...

IN Part I of this book practical health education is offered at all the critical periods of life's development, from womb to tomb. The book is enjoyable to read, but some medical data may only be read and understood by the more educated public, and not by socially deprived people in the community. An admirable attempt is made however to educate about what constitutes 'Health and Non-Health' and...

AIM To investigate whether adenoma and polyp detection rates (ADR and PDR, respectively) in screening colonoscopies performed in the presence of fellows differ from those performed by attending physicians alone. METHODS We performed a retrospective review of all patients who underwent a screening colonoscopy at Grady Memorial Hospital between July 1, 2009 and June 30, 2015. Patients with a hi...

background the impact factor (if), as the most important criterion for journal’s quality measurement, is affected by the self-citation and number of publications in each journal. objectives to find out the relationship between the number of publications and self-citations in a journal, and their correlations with if. materials and methods self-citations and impact factors of nine top gastroente...

Figure 1. Professor Chiu and members of TASSID. Ithat Taiwan ranked fifth among non-US countries in terms of numbers of submissions. This makes Taiwan first among all countries, including the United States, on a per capita basis. We greatly appreciate the support of the vibrant gastrointestinal research community in Taiwan. We also recently learned that, similar to Cellular and Molecular Gastro...

BACKGROUND & AIMS We evaluated the quality and safety of colonoscopies performed by nurse and physician endoscopy trainees as well as the cost differences. METHODS We performed a study of 7 nurse and 8 physician (gastroenterology fellows) endoscopy trainees at 2 medical centers in the Netherlands from September 2008 through April 2012. At the beginning of the study, the subjects had no experi...

The European brand of research universities, in the early twentieth century, became the role model for American Universities such as Harvard and Cornell [1]. Countries like India and China with rapidly growing economies need such role-models. India with a population of 1.2 billion is struggling to organize its research and Hepatogastroenterology (HGE) training, and to meet the requirements of n...

BACKGROUND Learner satisfaction assessment is critical in the design and improvement of training programs. However, little is known about what influences satisfaction and whether trainee specialty is correlated. A national comparison of satisfaction among internal medicine subspecialty fellows in the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) provides a unique opportunity to examine educational factor...