The 11th National Prevocational Medical Education Forum

11th Society for Academic Emergency Medicine Western Regional Research Forum

With author permission, seven selected abstracts are printed below and the remainder are published online at www.westjem.org. Objectives: To evaluate emergency medicine (EM) residents' ability to detect ocular pathology using portable ultrasound (US) in a live porcine model. Methods: This was a single-blinded outcome study to determine both the validity of a live porcine model to evaluate ocula...

The Education and Development Forum

A national survey of medical education fellowships

PURPOSE The purpose of our study was to determine the prevalence, focus, time commitment, graduation requirements and programme evaluation methods of medical education fellowships throughout the United States. Medical education fellowships are defined as a single cohort of medical teaching faculty who participate in an extended faculty development programme. METHODS A 26-item online questionn...

The National Quality Forum enters the game.

Editorial The National Quality Forum enters the game Health care quality in the USA is a paradox. On the one Institute of Medicine's National Roundtable on Health Care Quality [3], by investigators at RAND after an extensive hand, the rapid dissemination of new biomedical knowledge and the widespread availability of state-of-the-art technology review of the literature [4], and by President Clin...

Undergraduate medical student education: the case for a national curriculum.

Thirty-eight teaching hospital affiliated accident and emergency departments were surveyed by post to try to find if there had been any change in undergraduate medical student teaching over the past 10 years. Twenty-six departments replied. The results showed that although there has been an improvement in the teaching of A&E medicine to undergraduates in the past few years there are still some ...