Coronavirus Disease 2019—An Impetus for Resident Education Reform?

Quality Management for Education Reform

Principles of quality management have been successful in the business realm, producing quality products and services through a structured and comprehensive delivery system. Standardization reduces the variance of each task and improves overall effectiveness. Performance and attention to the bottom line are the measurement of success. Principles of quality management have been applied to student...

Reducing oral and maxillofacial surgery resident risk exposure: lessons from graduate medical education reform.

It is estimated that, in the United States, more than 40,000 patients are injured each day because of preventable medical errors. Although numerous studies examine the causes of medical trainee errors and efforts to mitigate patient injuries in this population, little research exists on adverse events experienced by oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMFS) residents or strategies to improve patien...

A Review of Pharmacotherapy for Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19)

The epidemic of COVID-19 and its associated acute respiratory syndrome has posed an unprecedented challenge in identifying effective drugs to prevent and treat it. Due to the high prevalence of this disease and the high number of people at risk, medical staff needs accurate evidence regarding effective drug treatments for this infection. There is currently no effective treatment for COVID-19. B...

Review of Therapeutic Candidates for the New Coronavirus disease (COVID19)

Background: COVID-19 infectious disease caused by the sever acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) occurred in late November 2019 in Wuhan, China and has become a worldwide health crisis. The World Health Organization has identified COVID-19 as a public health priority of international concern. This is because the epidemic has become a pandemic and there is no effective antiviral...

Resident duty-hour reform: moving beyond "change for change's sake".