Although competency-based medical education has become the standard for physician training in the West, many developing countries have not yet adopted competency-based training. In 2009 in the United Arab Emirates, the government regulatory and operational authorities for healthcare in Abu Dhabi mandated a wide-scale reform of the emirate's postgraduate residency programs to the competency-base...

Commentary This article illustrates the use of an essential post-residency survey to identify specific topic deficiencies in the emergency medicine (EM) residency curriculum. This method has been effectively used in other specialties. Lieberman et al.1 used a post-residency survey in Canada to record opinions of 239 pediatricians for their preparedness for practice. Results showed trainees need...

BACKGROUND The number of surgical residency applicants has been declining. Early introduction of the discipline of surgery is thought to stimulate early interest in surgical residency. This study investigated the hypothesis that a laparoscopic skills course introduced in preclinical years would stimulate student interest in entering surgical residency. METHODS Preclinical medical students par...

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...

OBJECTIVE Pediatricians have a unique role to play in the antismoking arena. However, few pediatric residency training programs prepare residents to meet the tobacco challenge. This study evaluates the effects of a comprehensive pediatric residency training program on tobacco on resident tobacco intervention behaviors, as well as on changes in the behavior of patients and their parents/guardian...

OBJECTIVE To analyse the advanced systems of urology residency in the developed world, to compare them to a system in the developing world, and thereby identify the shortcomings and make recommendations to improve residency programmes for urology in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq. METHODS A survey was conducted amongst the urology Residents (55) in the three governorates of the Kurdistan Region...

Developing a comprehensive and robust curriculum for residency programs in clinical pathology (CP; also known as laboratory medicine) has been a goal for residency program directors for many years. Although there are many excellent training programs in CP, it is well recognized by faculty and residents that CP training is usually the weakest area of most combined training programs. The proposal...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Career satisfaction among family physicians has declined over the last 15 years. The purpose of this study was to determine what aspects of residency training are associated with family medicine career satisfaction in recent graduates. METHODS This was a cross-sectional national survey of 1000 family physicians who graduated within the last 10 years. Questions were p...

PURPOSE To evaluate the efficacy of a musculoskeletal oncology training module during residency. METHODS 24 orthopaedic residents with differing years of experience were recruited. 12 of them received musculoskeletal oncology training for 6 months. The remaining 12 were controls who did not attend the training and had no clinical experience in a musculoskeletal oncology unit but had at least ...