BACKGROUND The Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education-mandated 80-hour work week has led many teaching hospitals to find adequate replacements for residents. In addition, the subspecialty of pediatric orthopaedics is currently experiencing a workforce shortage. At the authors' institution, Level I emergency department and hospital on-call duties alternate between orthopaedic reside...

Contact address: Sergei Godeiro Fernandes Rabelo Caldas Disciplina de Clínica Infantil, Departamento de Odontologia, UFRN Avenida Senador Salgado Filho, 1787 – Lagoa Nova – Natal/RN — Brazil CEP: 59056-000 – E-mail: [email protected] 1 Adjunct professor, Department of Pediatric Dentistry, Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN), professor at the Specialization course of Orthodont...

PURPOSE Several studies have documented a deficiency in the delivery of preventive services to adolescents during physician visits in the United States. This study sought to assess and compare pediatric, family medicine (FM), and obstetrics and gynecology (OB/GYN) resident perceptions of their responsibility, training, and experience with providing comprehensive health care services to adolesce...

BACKGROUND Pediatric medication dosing has been recognized as a high-error activity with the potential to cause serious harm. Few studies assess systems approaches to error reduction in pediatrics. OBJECTIVE To estimate the decrease in deviation from recommended medication doses associated with use of a pediatric intervention standardization system in the acute setting. DESIGN Two-period, 2...

Background Postpartum women are at high risk of unintended pregnancy as many do not receive timely postpartum contraception. Utilization of routine postpartum care varies widely. Conversely, the Well-Baby Visit (WBV) for newborns is highly utilized and provides an opportunity to discuss contraception with mothers. This project aimed to test the feasibility and acceptability of having pediatric ...

OBJECTIVE Breastfeeding is the preferred nutrition for infants, but many pediatricians report inadequate training to advise mothers who breastfeed. This study was designed to examine the effect of an educational intervention on pediatric residents' knowledge about breastfeeding, their confidence in addressing lactation issues, and their management skills during clinical encounters with breastfe...

OBJECTIVE To determine the content and urgency of pages and their effect on the activities of pediatric residents. DESIGN Prospective survey. SETTING University-affiliated teaching hospital. PARTICIPANTS Seventeen pediatric residents on regular pediatric services. INTERVENTIONS None. MEASUREMENTS/MAIN RESULTS On daily logs, interns recorded the activity interrupted by a page and rated...

Residency training is designed to allow trainees to develop the clinical skills and the knowledge base necessary to practice their specialty independently.1 Most pediatric residency programs have been hospital-based, usually in tertiary care institutions. Even required primary care continuity experiences are often based within urban hospital clinics. As a result, pediatric residency graduates h...

background: anesthesiology residents are susceptible to different mood and anxiety disorders. the aim of this research was to determine and compare stress coping styles and clinical performances in anesthesiology residents with type d and non-d personality. methods: this is a causative – comparative research. anesthesiology residents at academic department of anesthesiology in tehran university...

objective: the aim of this study was to investigate the current factors affecting the choice of ‎psychiatry as a specialty and to detect the main factors in their choice.‎ method: this descriptive study included 75 first year psychiatry residents in the academic year of ‎‎2014/2015. a likert-type anonymous questionnaire consisting of academic and ‎demographic data with 43 questions, which evalu...