Preanesthetic Management as Part of Junior Resident Education

Fellows as teachers: a model to enhance pediatric resident education

OBJECTIVE Pressures on academic faculty to perform beyond their role as educators has stimulated interest in complementary approaches in resident medical education. While fellows are often believed to detract from resident learning and experience, we describe our preliminary investigations utilizing clinical fellows as a positive force in pediatric resident education. Our objectives were to imp...

Long Curriculum in Resident Education.

1 Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, Kosair Children's Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky 2 Pediatric and Adolescent Gynecology, Seattle Children's Hospital, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children's Hospital at Memorial University Medical Center, Mercer School of Medicine, Savanah, Georgia...

Junior Independent Work, Part 1 Spring 2003

Dean Hoffman proposed the following block-packing problem at a conference at Miami University in 1978. [1] The task was to fit 27 a × b × c, a < b < c, blocks into a cube with side a + b + c. As a simple way of preventing trivial solutions, he stipulated that a > 4(a + b + c); otherwise, one might be able to stack blocks with four of the a sides in a row. We will also stipulate that the structu...

Education in COPD self-management: only part of the game.

Organisational innovation as part of knowledge management

The objective of this paper is to contribute to a perspective on economic performance, i.e. the interaction between norms specific to a company, the knowledge basis of the company and innovation. The questions we will try to shed light on in this article are: what is the connection between norms specific to the company, the knowledge basis of the company and innovation? We will argue that norms...