Residency Diary: Second Year—Day One

Postgraduate year one pharmacy residency program equivalency.

In 2006, the American College of Clinical Pharmacy (ACCP) charged the Task Force on Residency Equivalency to define the professional experience expected of a clinically mature practitioner that would meet or exceed the knowledge and skills of an accredited postgraduate year one residency-trained pharmacist. In this commentary, the Task Force discusses both the qualitative and quantitative compo...

The truth about language barriers: one residency program's experience.

OBJECTIVE To describe perceptions of how a lack of house staff Spanish proficiency adversely affects communication with Spanish-speaking families with limited English proficiency (LEP). METHODS An anonymous, structured questionnaire was administered to the house staff an of urban, university-affiliated children's hospital that serves a population in which 10%-20% have LEP. RESULTS Ninety-fo...

One Thousand Transactions per Second

transaction per second. contrasts the Several companies intend to provide general-purpose processing systems capable of one thousand transactions This paper surveys the need for such systems and approaches being taken by three different groups. This paper appears in the proceedings of IEEE COMPCON-85, held in San Francisco in February 1985.

"Do one, teach one": the new paradigm in general surgery residency training.

OBJECTIVE There is literature examining the total number of procedures performed by surgery residents before and after duty hour restrictions (DHR). There is insufficient literature addressing the effect of DHR on the number of procedures in which residents directly participate as an assistant, rather than as the primary operating surgeon. METHODS The operative experience of general surgery r...

Ambulance Diary for 1919