For over 25 years, The Arthritis Program (TAP) at Southlake Regional Health Centre has worked within a successful interprofessional model. TAP recognized the need to teach its model and developed The Arthritis Program - Interprofessional Training Program (TAP-ITP). This pilot study evaluated perceptions of 22 TAP-ITP participants related to effectiveness and satisfaction. The study employed a l...

restoration rather than symptom suppression, expands our armamentarium and certainly is the health platform for the future. In “Perceptions of Physicians in Civilian Medical Practice on Veterans’ Issues Related to Health Care,” Fredricks and Nakazawa,4 from the Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine at Athens, report on a survey of civilian physicians’ familiarity with and com...

Medical education is faced with a growing number of challenges. The playing field that most of us know and recognize has been evolving over the past decade. Many of the truths we knew as educators are no longer accurate and we are faced with educating our learners in this new environment. Accreditation standards through national organizations are more rigorous and based on attainment of compete...

Despite the rapid expansion of interest in competency-based assessment, few descriptions of assessment systems specifically designed for a competency-based curriculum have been reported. The purpose of this article is to describe the design of a portfolio approach to a comprehensive, competency-based assessment system that is fully integrated with the curriculum to foster an educational environ...

Awareness of one's own strengths and weaknesses is a key qualification for the specialist physician. We examined how physicians undergoing specialist training in general medicine rate themselves in different areas. For this purpose, 139 participants receiving post-graduate training in general practice offered by the Medical Association of Westfalen-Lippe assessed themselves regarding their subj...

BACKGROUND In current supervisory practice, the learning environment in which the training of specialist registrars (SpRs) takes place is important. Examples of such learning environments are the hospital settings and/or geographical locations where training occurs. Our objective was to investigate whether the cultural climate of different learning environments influences physicians' perceived ...

Rational drug use has increasingly received public policy attention in efforts to maintain quality health care at lower costs. Prescribing habits are developed during residency training, and education regarding rational drug use should be an integral part of the residency curricula. Considering that many medical errors in family medicine are related to incorrect medication management, there is ...

A he training requirements for internal medicine and its subspecialties have remained fundamentally the same over the past several generations. hysicians must first complete core training in internal edicine, and board certification in internal medicine ust precede board certification in the medical subspeialties or eligibility for added qualifications (Table). The initial length of training re...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Identification of reliable methods to evaluate the newly mandated American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS)/Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) competencies of the board-certified physician is in its early stages. In this study, we evaluated a comprehensive faculty peer evaluation system designed to assess the six competencies as well as fac...

OBJECTIVE Simulation technologies are used to assess and teach competencies through the provision of reproducible stimuli. They have exceptional utility in assessing responses to clinical stimuli that occur sporadically or infrequently. In this article, the authors describe the utility of emerging simulation technologies, and discuss critical issues in simulator-based skills assessment and appr...