Are Successful Resident Clinicians Good Teachers? Multidimensional Resident Assessment

Resident Surgical Assessment

An Analysis of Resident and Non- Resident Air Passenger Behaviour of Origin Airport Choice

Increasing number of air travellers in recent years and the emergence of multi-airport cities throughout the world has made the behaviour of travellers regarding the choice of the origin airport even more important. Analysis of this behaviour helps for a better future planning and development of competing airports as an important element of their demand prediction. In this paper, particular emp...

Resident competence assessment: Best practices

Competence can be defined as “the ability to do something well.” The goal of ophthalmology residency training is to produce competent ophthalmologists. To prove competence, appropriate assessment methods are required. These methods should follow certain principles of assessment. Teaching ophthalmologist's time is valuable and limited and often poorly or uncompensated. Thus any assessment should...

Rethinking the Resident Assessment Protocols.

To the Editor: We are writing on behalf of interRAI, a 26country research network whose members developed the Nursing Home Resident Assessment Instrument and the 18 Resident Assessment Protocols (RAPs) for the Minimum Data Set, Version 2.0 (MDS V2.0). The recent article by Dosa et al. raises some interesting issues related to the RAPs, but it would be useful to take a somewhat broader view than...

Resident doctors' understanding of their roles as clinical teachers.

INTRODUCTION Limited data illuminate how resident doctors view their important roles as teachers, supervisors and role models. Analysing qualitative data about resident teachers' self-perceptions can offer helpful insights. METHODS One year after a randomised trial of a residents-as-teachers curriculum at a university medical centre, we invited its 23 resident participants to participate in s...