background and purpose: the characteristics of residents of infectious diseases who should practice and teach evidence based medicine (ebm) during their clinical work – and their attitudes toward it – are poorly known. we assessed the knowledge, attitude and practice of infectious diseases residents regarding evidence based medicine and their related educational needs. methods: this cross-secti...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires that emergency medicine (EM) residency graduates are competent in the medical knowledge (MK) core competency. EM educators use a number of tools to measure a resident's progress toward this goal; it is not always clear whether these tools provide a valid assessment. A workshop was convened during the 2012 Academic Emergen...

following: non-adherence to antihypertensive therapy; recent history of hospitalisation for HBP, and use of tobacco. Home visits identified potential PD individuals, for whom data characterising their family and social inter-relationships were obtained by interviews. Thus, criteria that characterised positive deviants were identified and all such individuals were invited to participate in the i...

BACKGROUND Patients with limited literacy skills often have difficulty understanding medical information, are less likely to undergo cancer screening, and present with cancer at later stages than patients with better literacy skills. Since primary care physicians are responsible for performing or initiating the majority of cancer screening in the United States, they need to be able to not only ...

BACKGROUND Sleep disturbances is a distressing and disabling condition that affects many people, and can affect on quality of work and education of medical students and residents. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence of sleep disorders in medical students and residents. METHODS A representative sample of medical students and residents of Iran University of medical stude...

This paper examines the role of physicians’ progress notes in the professional socialization of medical residents. As a component of their specialty training, residents are principally responsible for making the physician entries in the medical charts of the patients who are under the joint care of the residents and the hospital’s medical staff. This includes the initial physician chart entry, ...

BACKGROUND When surgeons decide to become surgeons has important implications. If the decision is made prior to or early in medical school, surgical education can be more focused on surgical diseases and resident skills. METHODS To determine when surgeons - compared with their nonsurgical colleagues - decide on their medical path, residents in surgery, internal medicine, obstetrics and gyneco...

OBJECTIVES The objective of this study was to assess communication at the bedside in the emergency room between residents and their patients in order to identify common communication gaps. We also intended to evaluate whether residents for whom English is a second language (ESL residents) communicate less effectively. METHODS A scorable checklist was developed in order to assess and identify ...

BACKGROUND In resident primary care continuity clinics, at the end of each academic year, continuity of care is disrupted when patients cared for by the graduating class are redistributed to other residents. Yet, despite the recent focus on the transfers of care between resident physicians in inpatient settings, there has been minimal attention given to patient care transfers in academic ambula...

HYPOTHESIS A novel approach to identify at-risk periods among orthopedic surgical residents may direct fatigue risk mitigation and facilitate targeted interventions. DESIGN A prospective cohort study with a minimum 2-week continuous assessment period. Data on sleep and awake periods were processed using the sleep, activity, fatigue, and task effectiveness model. SETTING Rotations at 2 acade...