Palliative Care Education in Emergency Medicine Residency Training: A Survey of Program Directors, Associate Program Directors, and Assistant Program Directors

Pediatric emergency medicine fellowship training: a survey of program directors.

Quality Improvement in Otolaryngology Residency: Survey of Program Directors.

OBJECTIVES The Clinical Learning Environment Review focuses on the responsibility of the sponsoring institution for quality and patient safety. Very little information is known regarding the status of quality improvement (QI) education during otolaryngology training. The purpose of this survey is to evaluate the extent of resident and faculty participation in QI and identify opportunities for b...

Pharmaceutical industry support and residency education: a survey of internal medicine program directors.

BACKGROUND Interactions with the pharmaceutical industry are known to affect the attitudes and behaviors of medical residents; however, to our knowledge, a nationally representative description of current practices has not been reported. METHODS The Association of Program Directors in Internal Medicine surveyed 381 US internal medicine residency program directors in 2006-2007 regarding pharma...

Accelerating medical education: a survey of deans and program directors

BACKGROUND A handful of medical schools in the U.S. are awarding medical degrees after three years. While the number of three-year pathway programs is slowly increasing there is little data on the opinions of medical education leaders on the need for shortening training. PURPOSE To survey deans and program directors (PDs) to understand the current status of 3-year medical degree programs and ...

Sexual Assault Training in Emergency Medicine Residencies: A Survey of Program Directors

INTRODUCTION There is currently no standard forensic medicine training program for emergency medicine residents. In the advent of sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) programs aimed at improving the quality of care for sexual assault victims, it is also unclear how these programs impact emergency medicine (EM) resident forensic medicine training. The purpose of this study was to gather informat...