An Elective Course on Postgraduate Residency Training

10th POSTGRADUATE COURSE IN TRAINING IN REPRODUCTIVE MEDECINE & REPRODUCTIVE BIOLOGY

Pediatric residency training on tobacco.

OBJECTIVE Pediatricians have a unique role to play in the antismoking arena. However, few pediatric residency training programs prepare residents to meet the tobacco challenge. This study evaluates the effects of a comprehensive pediatric residency training program on tobacco on resident tobacco intervention behaviors, as well as on changes in the behavior of patients and their parents/guardian...

Postgraduate year one pharmacy residency program equivalency.

In 2006, the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) charged the Task Force on Residency Equivalency to define the professional experience expected of a clinically mature practitioner that would meet or exceed the knowledge and skills of an accredited postgraduate year one residency-trained pharmacist. In this commentary, the Task Force discusses both the qualitative and quantitative compo...

An elective course for medical students on innovation and entrepreneurship

Here we describe “Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Medicine” (IEMed), a short elective course that exposed medical students to innovation and entrepreneurship. We assess students’ self-rated familiarity with various learning objectives after the course and report survey outcomes. Students were most interested in further educational offerings focused on startups and innovation. However, studen...

Interpersonal skills for practice: an elective course.

This ar/icle was accepted for publica/ion Augus/ 1. 1992. ThiS past year, faculty at the School of Allied Health Sciences of the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston offered an elective course to enhance student preparedness to face the interpersonal challenges that are apt to occur in practice, One catalyst for the development of this course was a letter from a student that read in ...