I am a second-year emergency medicine resident and I have been interested in ultrasonography since the beginning of my residency. During my internship, I realized that integrating this technology into my patient care helped my clinical practice. Because critical care emergency medicine is my primary interest, I wondered whether there was a way of distinguishing myself in terms of proficiency in...

On the one hand, classical analysis of geometric algorithms is done in the worst case. The worst case is often very pessimistic and need to designed carefully pathological data set to be reached. On the other hand, analysis of geometric algorithms can also be done under probabilistic hypotheses on the data distribution. Unfortunately, common hypotheses, such as Poisson distribution or uniform d...

Spirito et al. (this issue) provide a blueprint for discussion regarding the programmatic as well as competencybased skills necessary for psychologists to be recognized as pediatric psychologists. The purpose of the internship year is to complete training in the general practice of clinical psychology and to extend specialty preparation in didactic instruction, research, and clinical practice i...

To better understand the graduate student viewpoint on quality of preparation provided by graduate programs in terms of the internship application process, the current study surveyed students enrolled in member programs of the Council of University Directors of Clinical Psychology (CUDCP). Six hundred seventy-four students completed a questionnaire designed to assess perceptions regarding prepa...

The Robot Soccer World Cup (RoboCup) Federation is an international organization which focuses on the promotion of robotics and Artificial Intelligence research, by offering a publicly appealing challenge: build robots that play soccer. The teams: Tech United and CAMBADA compete in the Middle-Sized League (MSL) among other leagues. In the MSL robots of no more than 50 cm in diameter and 80 cm i...

aim and background: “need assessment” is considered the process of evaluation of needs in a specific domain, which is fundamental for quality improvement of health education and research. as suicide is one the most important problem in public health, it would be expected that all psychiatric residents should have adequate knowledge and skills and play in different roles in this field. this stud...

Residency Training Requirements: For Better or Worse? A proposal has recently been put forward to increase the duration of the nuclear medicine residency and implement a 3-tier residency training requirement beginning in 2005 or 2006. The proposal includes increasing the length of the nuclear medicine residency from 3 to 4 years (1 basic clinical year [PGY-1] plus 3 years of nuclear medicine) f...

background and purpose: internship, undergraduate clerkships, is the last stage of training for medical students in iran during which they work as medical doctors under supervision of academic staff for 1.5 years. we assessed the validity of students’ scores in internship in one of the paramount medical universities in iran. methods: in an historical cohort study, we collected the medical stude...

Even as Taiwan’s higher education is growing, graduation from college or university is not a guarantee for employment. Therefore, more and more schools are establishing relationships with enterprises to offer internship opportunities to students. These days senior college students are asked (as a matter of course) whether they are going to choose an internship course or not. What is the key det...