BACKGROUND Attending rounds is a key component of patient care and education at teaching hospitals, yet there is an absence of studies addressing trainees' perceptions of rounds. OBJECTIVE To determine perceptions of pediatrics and internal medicine residents about the current and ideal purposes of inpatient rounds on hospitalist services. METHODS In this multi-institutional qualitative stu...

Methods of incorporating the evaluation of professional conduct have varied widely by specialty, institution, and level of training. Medical educators now are tasked with developing more operationally-defined evaluative tools while balancing the ongoing need to reduce administrative load and survey fatigue that have been linked with physician burnout. Our aim was to investigate the value of a s...

The value of establishing a patient-centered relationship within the context of the clinical encounter is well documented. The learner-centered method of medical education parallels the patient-centered clinical method; therefore, it should be explored as a method for teaching in the context of the learning encounter. In Japan and other Asian countries, rotations through services not related to...

CONTEXT Nurse practitioners increasingly provide primary care in a variety of settings. Little is known about how resource utilization for patients assigned to nurse practitioners compares with that for patients assigned to physicians. OBJECTIVE To compare health care resource utilization for adult patients assigned to a nurse practitioner with that for patients assigned to a resident or atte...

Competency-based medical education (CBME) is an outcomes-focused approach to educating professionals that will be central future efforts improve resident training in otolaryngology. The transition CBME for otolaryngology the United States require development of specialty-specific assessments and benchmarks, financial administrative support implementation, professional faculty learners, cooperat...

BACKGROUND For future physicians, residency programs offer necessary extended training in specific medical specialties. Medical schools benefit from an understanding of factors that lead their students to match into certain residency specialties. One such factor, often used during the residency application process, is scores on the USA Medical Licensing Exam (USMLE). OBJECTIVES To determine t...

This month’s article by Lam et al. (“Factors Associated with the Satisfaction of Millennial Generation Dental Residents”) and one to be published in the January issue (Itaya et al., “AEGD Programs: Why Now, Why More?”) got me thinking about the number of manuscripts that are submitted to the Journal of Dental Education that concern advanced dental education. A nonscientific scan of the JDE over...

Principles/Introduction A. Principles 1. The program must be committed to and be responsible for promoting patient safety and resident well‐being and to providing a supportive educational environment. 2. The learning objectives of the program must not be compromised by excessive reliance on residents to fulfill service obligations. 3. Didactic and clinical education must have priority in the al...