Maternity and medical leave during residency: Time to standardize?

Maternity and medical leave during residency: Time to standardize?☆

I was full of dread the day I went to the pediatrician for my newborn son’s three-week checkup. The following week I was to return to my clinical duties as a dermatology resident, just 4 weeks post partum. The pediatrician learned of this and strongly urged me to take more time off. She insisted that 6 weeks is the minimum time needed to establish breast-feeding, strengthen my mother-baby bond,...

Paternity leave in medical residency.

Maternity and Family Leave Policy∗

Maternity and family leave policies enable mothers to take time off work to prepare for and recover from childbirth and to care for their new children. While there is substantial variation in the details of these policies around the world, the existing research yields the following general conclusions. First, despite important barriers to the take-up of leave, both the implementation of new pro...

How to Standardize Electronic Medical Records

Introduction: One of the key elements of success of health institutions is Standardization. This study introduces the methods and stages of electronic medical records standardization. Methods: The present study is a narrative review of the studies on the stages and methods of electronic medical records standardization. Results: The process of standardization of electronic medical records incl...

Time to standardize taxonomies.

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