Women's Health Curriculum for Internal Medicine Residents: Development, Implementation, and Evaluation

Development and implementation of a mini-Clinical Evaluation Exercise (mini-CEX) program to assess the clinical competencies of internal medicine residents: from faculty development to curriculum evaluation

BACKGROUND The mini-CEX is a valid and reliable method to assess the clinical competencies of trainees. Its data could be useful for educators to redesign curriculum as a process of quality improvement. The aim of this study was to evaluate a mini-CEX assessment program in our internal medicine residency training. We investigated the impact of mini-CEX workshops as a faculty development program...

Evaluation of a quality improvement curriculum for family medicine residents.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES East Tennessee State University's (ETSU) Department of Family Medicine initiated Quality Improvement (QI) training in its three residency programs in 2008. The purpose of the project was to develop, implement, and assess a formal curriculum and experiential learning process to train family medicine residents in QI knowledge and skills. METHODS Family medicine faculty...

Personal health care of internal medicine residents

INTRODUCTION Medical residents, as part of their job to balance the demands of their work with caring for themselves so as to be mentally, emotionally, and physically sound to stay clinically competent. While regulatory and legislative attempts at limiting medical resident work hours have materialized but have yet to attain passage, there are fairly little data looking into how residents cope u...

Development, Implementation and Evaluation of an M3 Community Health Curriculum.

OBJECTIVES This paper describes the development, implementation and evaluation of an M3 community health curriculum that responds to recent changes within the health care finance and delivery system. METHODS The new curriculum was developed based on AAMC recommendations, LCME requirements, a national review of undergraduate community health curricula, and an internal review of the integration...

design and implementation of a persian questionnaire for the evaluation of internal medicine residents’ skills in upper gastrointestinal endoscopy