Residency Training in a Healthcare Crisis

Professionalism in Residency Training

Professionalism is one of the most important competencies for physicians but is also the most difficult to teach, assess, and manage. To better understand professionalism in pathology, we surveyed practicing pathologists and pathology residents and fellows in training. We identified 12 key desirable attributes of professionalism. In addition, 8 case scenarios highlighting unprofessional behavio...

Residency crisis in offing, provinces warned.

Stapedotomy in a residency training program.

INTRODUCTION The major objective of a stapedotomy is the restoration of hearing. In training centers, the hearing results obtained by resident physicians are lower than those achieved by more experienced surgeons. An analysis of the surgical results obtained by resident physicians is essential to identification of the deficiencies in the learning process. OBJECTIVE To analyze the postoperativ...

Pediatric residency training in Singapore.

Structured pediatric training Compared to our neighbors, Singapore is small, with a population of around five million. The pediatric training is a sixyear program, which began in mid-1980s, and has been funded by a combination of the Ministry of Health, and the two pediatric teaching and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education International (ACGME-I) accredited hospitals to produce...

Residency In-service Training Exam