Meritocracy in graduate medical education? Some suggestions for creating a report card

Graduate medical education: a proposal for reform.

Graduate medical education.

Additional Documentation Applicants with postgraduate medical experience elsewhere must provide verification from the program director or supervisor. Documentation of PGY levels and actual months/years of credits fully granted to the applicant must be sent to the McGaw Medical Center residency program director before any interview, as required by affiliation agreements and residency review comm...

Reforming graduate medical education.

Because of the traditional subordination of education to service, graduate medical education (GME) in the United States has never realized its full educational potential. This article suggests 4 strategies for reasserting the primacy of education in GME: limit the number of patients house officers manage at one time, relieve the resident staff of noneducational chores, improve educational conte...

Osteopathic graduate medical education.

Several aspects of osteopathic graduate medical education have gained momentum in recent years. Although the number of 2006 osteopathic graduates dropped slightly compared with the previous year, 2007 graduates totaled 3103, surpassing 3000 for the first time in osteopathic history. A total of 1196 (41%) and 1267 (40%) graduates and previous graduates participated and matched in the American Os...

Graduate medical education.

The annual surveys of residency programs on which this statistical report is based have had a higher than 95% response for the past four years. The number of accredited programs increased in 1984 and again in 1985, primarily as a result of the accreditation of additional subspecialty programs. Discussions about the sources and methods of financing graduate medical education may have an impact o...