Background: The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has caused systemic changes to schooling, childcare, and the workplace, uniquely impacting lives of physicians parents, especially women. Experiences those filling multiple roles as pediatric faculty parents remain largely undocumented.

CONTEXT Reports evaluating faculty knowledge of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) core competencies in community hospitals without a dedicated residency program are uncommon. OBJECTIVE Faculty evaluation regarding knowledge of ACGME core competencies before a residency program is started. DESIGN Physicians at the Kaiser Permanente Fontana Medical Center (N = 4...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this qualitative study was to characterize the adequacy, effectiveness, and barriers related to research mentorship among junior pediatric hospitalists and general pediatricians at a large academic institution. METHODS Junior faculty and staff physicians in hospital medicine and general pediatrics at a large academic institution were invited to participate in this qua...

BACKGROUND Advance directives are widely promoted as a means to plan for patients' decisional incapacity, yet there is little evidence of their effectiveness. We devised a study to assess physicians' compliance with hypothetical advance directives and further examine their clinical reasoning. METHODS The study consisted of an analysis of a mailed written survey containing 6 hypothetical cases...

BACKGROUND Cross-year peer tutoring (CYPT) of medical students is recognized as an effective learning tool. The aim of this study is to investigate the non-inferiority of the objective outcome of medical interview training with CYPT compared with the results of faculty-led training (FLT), and to explore qualitatively the educational benefits of CYPT. METHODS We conducted a convergent mixed me...

PROBLEM ADDRESSED Fewer medical students are choosing careers in family medicine across Canada. One way to cultivate student interest is through creation of family medicine interest groups. Students, residents, community-based family physicians, and academic faculty can all contribute to the success of such groups. OBJECTIVE OF PROGRAM A family medicine interest group provides information abo...

Physicians who work in challenging contexts such as remote rural locations or with special populations may need support in persevering in their positions and also may suffer vicarious trauma through their work. Academic health centers may be in a position to provide much needed support to these physicians through focused continuing medical education, faculty development, practice-based research...

INTRODUCTION Distance learning technologies have been used for many years to provide CME to rural physicians. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the utility and acceptability of a mixed learning technology approach for providing distance CME. The approach combined audio teleconferencing instruction with a Web-based learning system enabling the live presentation and archiving of instructi...