OBJECTIVE To determine the cost of formal and informal teaching specifically provided for interns and to determine how much of an intern's time is spent in these activities. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Costs of formal teaching for 2012 were obtained from the New South Wales Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) and costs of informal teaching by a survey of all interns in a rando...

OBJECTIVES Cardio-Pulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) is one of the most important procedures in emergency medicine. As new trends are evolving in medical education , we planned to evaluate the interests and knowledge of medical students regarding educational methods in CPR learning. MATERIALS AND METHODS In a cross-sectional analytical descriptive study, a standardized questionnaire was distribute...

background: after many years of teaching, both the efficiency and efficacy of communication skills programs are under question because patients’ dissatisfaction with doctors’ communication behavior is at the top of the complaint lists. it is assumed that finding the specific role of different determinants of doctors’ communication behavior, instructional designers can plan more effective traini...

BACKGROUND New challenges are occurring in the medical education in Mainland China, and the main risk is the loss of excellent physician candidates. This is due to lack of respect; a large, strong labor force; relatively low remuneration; unstable relationships between patients and doctors; pressures from the public media; and the possible existence of organizational injustice within the hospit...

background: emphasis on revise and provide new methods of evaluation in medical colleges are widely increasing. evaluation methods based on clinical practice and students’ performance appraisement in health care system and in medical student is introduced as an effective method in some studies. methods: the aim of this study was to consider the usefulness of a new method to evaluate the medical...

Most emergency medicine (EM) residency programs provide an orientation program for their incoming interns, with the lecture being the most common education activity during this period. Our orientation program is designed to bridge the gap between undergraduate and graduate medical education by ensuring that all learners demonstrate competency on Level 1 Milestones, including medical knowledge (...

BACKGROUND A recent randomized controlled trial in critical-care units revealed that the elimination of extended-duration work shifts (> or =24 h) reduces the rates of significant medical errors and polysomnographically recorded attentional failures. This raised the concern that the extended-duration shifts commonly worked by interns may contribute to the risk of medical errors being made, and ...

BACKGROUND A sound knowledge of pathophysiology of a disease and clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (CPT) of a drug is required for safe and rational prescribing. The aim of this study was therefore to assess how adequately the undergraduate CPT teaching had prepared interns in Nigeria for safe and rational prescribing and retrospectively, to know how they wanted the undergraduate curriculu...

We would like to thank Dr Sarani and Dr Alarcon for their critique of our work, published online in Critical Care on 12 January 2005 [1]. We have reviewed the critique, and in general we think that it appropriately describes both the strengths and limitations of our studies. We would like to make a few minor factual clarifications. First, although the study by Lockley and colleagues used a with...