BACKGROUND Subspecialty fellows can serve as a tremendous educational resource to residents; however, there are multiple barriers to an effective resident-fellow teaching interaction in the setting of inpatient consultation. We designed and evaluated a resident-directed intervention to enhance communication and teaching during consultation on the general medicine wards. METHODS Five medical t...

INTRODUCTION Establishing a boot camp curriculum is pertinent for emergency medicine (EM) residents in order to develop proficiency in a large scope of procedures and leadership skills. In this article, we describe our program's EM boot camp curriculum as well as measure the confidence levels of resident physicians through a pre- and post-boot camp survey. METHODS We designed a one-month boot...

PURPOSE To examine the laboratory test ordering patterns of interns to determine the effects of more senior residents' and attendings' supervision on trainees' patterns and residents' perceptions of control in test ordering. METHOD In a 2007 cohort study of 2,066 patients cared for by 85 interns, 56 residents, and 27 attendings on the University of Pennsylvania general medical hospitalist ser...

Jake and Alex were interns in Riverside Hospital’s internal medicine residency program. Almost since day one, Jake had complained to Emma about Alex’s way of doing things. At first, Jake had chalked it up to the enormous difference between being a med student and being an MD. In the beginning, it was an ordeal for interns to retrieve the needed clinical facts in a moment and to manage the overw...

conclusions the levels of knowledge and skill among iranian physicians on major topics of sports and exercise medicine are low to medium. gps and interns are the first line of patient management so our findings suggest adding some sports medicine related topics into curriculum of medical doctors. materials and methods a cross-sectional study was performed in 2009 to determine the knowledge rega...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated a simulated pages curriculum that was developed to assess communication and clinical decision making in medical students and interns. METHODS A curriculum consisting of 14 simulated pages was administered across 5 institutions to 150 senior medical students. A 3-case subset was administered to interns who did not participate in the curriculum. Six expert surgeo...

A representative sample of 115 training directors of American Psychological Association-accredited internship programs was surveyed. In a two-part survey, they ranked the criteria used in selecting interns for the 1994-1995 training year and elucidated characteristics of the selection process. Clinical experience, the interview, and letters of recommendation were identified as the top three sel...

E-supervision has a potential role in addressing speech-language personnel shortages in rural and difficult to staff school districts. The purposes of this article are twofold: to determine how e-supervision might support graduate speech-language pathologist (SLP) interns placed in rural, remote, and difficult to staff public school districts; and, to investigate interns' perceptions of in-pers...

In the Kenyan medical educations system, one has to go through one year of internship after graduating from medical school in order to be licensed to practise medicine. This internship period is laden with work to the extent of overwhelming and stressing the medical officer interns. Irrespective of what competence interns come with into the field there is still a lot they have to learn from the...

BACKGROUND While both patients and physicians identify communication of bad news as an area of great challenge, the factors underlying this often complex task remain largely unknown. Emotional intelligence (EI) has been positively correlated with good general communication skills and successful leadership, but there is no literature relating EI to the delivery of bad news. PURPOSE Our objecti...