A program director’s perspective: advanced positions versus physician-only positions - What’s the best for my program?

What keeps some program directors in their, positions so long? An examination of job longevity among anesthesia program directors.

The turnover rate of nurse anesthesia faculty has been monitored by the Council on Accreditation of Nurse Anesthesia Educational Programs for a number of years. In 2005, the turnover rate remained high, at 22%, indicating a problem with faculty retention. This article reports the results of a study in which 25 long-time nurse anesthesia program directors were interviewed to gain insights into f...

ACGME work hours regulations: a perspective from neurology program directors.

Background Resident duty hour regulations developed by the ACGME went into effect in July 2003 and were preceded by much debate among medical educators. The regulations have forced change in the structure of many residency programs. All programs, regardless of specialty, have been forced to re-evaluate the structure of patient care systems in the academic setting where the resident role in serv...

Teaching residents and program directors about physician impairment.

OBJECTIVE Residents are at a higher risk than the general population for the development of stress-related problems, depression, or suicide. The authors describe a curriculum for educating PGY-1s and residency program directors about physician impairment. METHODS A resident wellness program was established with the goals of preventing resident suicide, encouraging acceptance of treatment wher...

Five Candidates Running for Two SCA Board of Directors’ Positions

Excerpt Patel et al performed an open, multicenter, randomized controlled trial in which they investigated whether insertion of intra-aortic balloon counterpulsation (IABC) prior to primary percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) reduces infarct size measured by cardiac magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in patients with acute anterior ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) compared to PCI a...

a swot analysis of the english program of a bilingual school in iran

با توجه به جایگاه زبان انگلیسی به عنوان زبانی بین المللی و با در نظر گرفتن این واقعیت که دولت ها و مسئولان آموزش و پرورش در سراسر جهان در حال حاضر احساس نیاز به ایجاد موقعیتی برای کودکان جهت یاد گیری زبان انگلیسی درسنین پایین در مدارس دو زبانه می کنند، تحقیق حاضر با استفاده از مدل swot (قوت ها، ضعف ها، فرصتها و تهدیدها) سعی در ارزیابی مدرسه ای دو زبانه در ایران را دارد. جهت انجام این تحقیق در م...

Best Practices for Increasing IS Enrollment: A Program Perspective