7. Disaster Medicine Fellowship Training

Family medicine obstetrics fellowship graduates: training and post-fellowship experience.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Family medicine obstetrics and maternal-child health fellowships offer family physicians additional training in pregnancy care. Our objectives were to assess the content of these fellowship programs, the clinical practices of fellowship graduates, and factors associated with inclusion of cesarean delivery in practice after fellowship training. METHODS A survey was se...

Milestones in Fellowship Training in Headache Medicine.

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandated a transition from competency-based assessment of resident progress to a “milestone-based” approach in 2012. After July 2014, neurology residency programs were required to follow milestones corresponding to all goals of training in the 6 areas of competency, with specific anchoring language for assessing progress. This eva...

Building the research culture of family medicine with fellowship training.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The future of family medicine is closely tied to the strength of family medicine research. Physicians with fellowship training have been shown to be more productive researchers than those without fellowship training. This study's objectives are to (1) identify fellowship programs available to family physicians, (2) explore how family medicine fellows are taught researc...

Pediatric emergency medicine fellowship training: a survey of program directors.

Research training in six selected internal medicine fellowship programs.

BACKGROUND Effective July 1997, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) established a research pathway to certification to encourage research training of general internists and subspecialists. OBJECTIVE To document the current status of research training in six selected subspecialty programs, to examine opportunities available for trainees to undertake formal course work, and to report...