tion of the conference report is concerned with considerations more closely related to the resident as an individual. It considers the type of life he leads, his choice of psychiatry as a profession, the selection of residents, the training centers, and the ideals and realities of training programs. In these chapters there is greater agreement resulting in more specific and to-thepoint discussi...

tion of the conference report is concerned with considerations more closely related to the resident as an individual. It considers the type of life he leads, his choice of psychiatry as a profession, the selection of residents, the training centers, and the ideals and realities of training programs. In these chapters there is greater agreement resulting in more specific and to-thepoint discussi...

BACKGROUND Training people to deliver mindfulness-based interventions (MBI) is becoming an important activity as mindfulness has been shown to have clinical benefits across a variety of conditions. Training courses must not only address the principles, skills and theory of mindfulness, but the trainers themselves must be able to embody the practice. There is limited research on the ability of t...

in 1989. As he defined it, pimping occurs when an attending physician (the Pimper) poses a series of difficult questions to a resident or medical student (the Pimpee). Pimping usually occurs in settings such as “morning report” or “attending rounds,” in which trainees at various levels convene with a faculty member to review patients currently under their care. Among surgeons, pimping may occur...

Resident doctors contribute significantly to the quality of undergraduate medical training and it is assumed that by participating in the process, they also improve their own professional competency. We decided to investigate whether there is evidence to support this assumption. Our hypothesis, the physician-as-teacher rule, stated that "A skilled teacher has an increased likelihood of becoming...