All full-time (> 0.5 FTE) faculty members at the University of Colorado Denver School of Medicine, including clinicians and basic scientists, are required to sign a University Physicians, Inc. (UPI) Member Practice Agreement (MPA). Signing the MPA is required by the Board of Regents as a condition of employment. The MPA specifies the types of consulting income, honoraria and other fees collecte...

Feedback, especially timely, specific, and actionable feedback, frequently does not occur. Efforts to better understand methods to improve the effectiveness of feedback are an important area of educational research. This study represents preliminary work as part of a plan to investigate the perceptions of a student-driven system to request feedback from faculty using a mobile device and Web-bas...

Usanee Reinprayoon*, Nitipong Permpalung*, Ngamjit Kasetsuwan, Rongpong Plongla, 2 Leonel Mendoza, Ariya Chindamporn 3 Department of Ophthalmology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 4 Thailand, King Chulalongkorn Memorial Hospital, Thai Red Cross Society, Bangkok, Thailand, 5 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, 6 Thailand, De...

The aim of the study was to evaluate measures taken in a dentistry faculty due COVID-19 (SARS-Cov-2) pandemic and their application methods based create guide for infection control management dentistry. After onset pandemic, performed Dentistry Faculty Erciyes University were only emergency treatments first 3 months (T1) after this period, normalization procedures routine (T2) by recruiting pat...

OBJECTIVE To explore medical students' experiences working with frequently rotating pediatric inpatient attending physicians. METHODS We performed a qualitative study using focus groups and individual interviews of medical students who rotated on the general pediatric inpatient service at Children's Hospital Colorado. The majority of inpatient pediatric attending physicians worked 1-week bloc...

OBJECTIVES Emergency physicians who work in academic settings enjoy an expanding number of roles beyond that of the skilled clinician. Faculty development (FD) encompasses the broad range of activities that institutions use to renew skill-sets and assist faculty members in these multiple roles. This study seeks to define the current FD needs and interests of Canadian academic emergency physicia...

OBJECTIVE This study intends to investigate interns and faculty members' insights into constructing relationship between physicians and patients at 3 more accredited Iranian universities of medical sciences. METHOD Applying PRECEDE PROCEED model, semi-structured interviews were completed with 7 interns and 14 faculty members and two themes were emerged from directed content analysis. The mean...

In the past 15 years, there has been growing recognition that improving patient safety must be more systems based and sophisticated than the traditional approach of simply telling health care providers to "be more careful." Drawing from his own experience, the author discusses barriers to systems-based patient safety initiatives and emphasizes the importance of overcoming those barriers. Physic...

Physicians often do not provide adequate information regarding patients' medical conditions when presented with consultation requests (CR) generated by dental students and their instructors about the students' patients. We hypothesized that a structured CR form, which requests specific information by providing a checklist and/or closed-ended questions for physicians to answer, would lead to bet...

E lectronic patient portals have received increasing interest with Meaningful Use criteria and the move toward patientcentered medical homes.1-4 Portals typically allow patients and physicians to send electronic messages to one another in a secure environment. Other functions might include renewing prescriptions, making appointments, and viewing portions of one’s own medical record. Despite pot...