INTRODUCTION: During the 2015–2016 academic year, plastic surgery residents accounted for nearly 4.2% of surgical residents and 0.8% of residents overall. While the number of residency programs and allotted residency positions in plastic surgery have been steadily increasing in recent years, little information exists regarding residents who are accepted for plastic surgery residency but never m...

BACKGROUND 25-29% of North American family medicine residency programs utilize a pharmacist to teach residents. Little is known about the impact that these pharmacist educators have on residency training. The purpose of this study was to examine the experiences of residents, residency directors and pharmacists within Canadian family medicine residency programs that employ a pharmacist educator ...

IMPORTANCE Nearly 1400 medical students enter preliminary surgical residency each year; placing some of these students into categorical surgical training is an important component of building the future surgical workforce. OBJECTIVES To examine the training outcomes of preliminary residents in a university and Veterans Affairs surgical residency and to test the hypothesis that characteristics...

background it is believed that self-evaluation can empower students; help them to pick higher goals and to try harder to realize these targets. however, the nursing students’ self-evaluation on clinical skills has rarely been studied. objectives to investigate the correlation of nursing internship trainees’ self-evaluation of clinical skills with their teachers’ evaluation. conclusions the stud...

introduction: objective structured clinical examination (osce) is used for the evaluation of the clinical competence in medicine for which it is essential to measure validity and reliability. this study aimed to investigate the validity and reliability of osce for residents of obstetrics and gynecology at kermanshah university of medical sciences in 2011. methods: a descriptive-correlation stud...

purpose : to evaluate the adequacy and efficiency of training programs of ophthalmology residency in iran for achieving the planned objectives in their program, as well as to evaluate the proficiency of such programs in preparing residents to enter independent clinical practice as a general ophthalmologist. methods : a closed-ended questionnaire was distributed between 89 residents or recently ...

We explore !.he ramifications ofobject residency assumptions and their impact on residency checking for several subroutine dispatch scenarios: procedural, static object-oriented, and dynamic (virtual) object-oriented. We obtain dynamic counts of the residency checks necessary for execution of several benchmark persistent programs under each of these scenarios. The resuhs reveal that significant...

INTRODUCTION: During the 2015–2016 academic year, plastic surgery residents accounted for nearly 4.2% of surgical residents and 0.8% of residents overall. While the number of residency programs and allotted residency positions in plastic surgery have been steadily increasing in recent years, little information exists regarding residents who are accepted for plastic surgery residency but never m...

The Initiative for Innovation in Pediatric Education (IIPE)1 is the next phase in a comprehensive reevaluation of pediatric residency education that began with the Residency Review and Redesign in Pediatrics (R3P) project.2 As the IIPE begins, it is worth reflecting on questions that arose repeatedly during the R3P project: Just what role does residency play in child health? Does it make a diff...

We explore the ramifications of object residency assumptions and their impact on residency checking for several subroutine dispatch scenarios: procedural, static object-oriented, and dynamic (virtual) object-oriented. We obtain dynamic counts of the residency checks necessary for execution of several benchmark persistent programs under each of these scenarios. The results reveal that significan...