Enhancing Competency in Professionalism: Targeting Resident Advance Directive Education

Redrafting Ohio's advance directive laws.

Resident Professionalism in the Emergency Department

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has outlined six core competencies to guide the training of Emergency Medicine residents. Of these, professionalism stands as a unique part of this sextet – inherently challenging to define, teach, and measure. Historically, professionals have been recognized as having three essential characteristics: expert knowledge, self-regula...

A comparison of state advance directive documents.

PURPOSE Advance directive (AD) documents are based on state-specific statutes and vary in terms of content. These differences can create confusion and inconsistencies resulting in a possible failure to honor the health care wishes of people who execute health care documents for one state and receive health care in another state. The purpose of this study was to compare similarities and differen...

Assessing resident competency in an outpatient setting.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The Grand Rapids Family Practice Residency Program has been using an ongoing "spot check" method to evaluate global competencies of family medicine residents in the ambulatory setting. This paper describes and assesses this evaluation method. METHODS During each clinic session, preceptors evaluate residents on core ambulatory clinical skills. Evaluations emphasize di...

Emergency Medicine Resident Perceptions of Medical Professionalism

INTRODUCTION Medical professionalism is a core competency for emergency medicine (EM) trainees; but defining professionalism remains challenging, leading to difficulties creating objectives and performing assessment. Because professionalism is dynamic, culture-specific, and often taught by modeling, an exploration of trainees' perceptions can highlight their educational baseline and elucidate t...