PURPOSE Organizations have raised concerns regarding stress in the medical work environment and effects on health care worker performance. This study's objective was to assess workplace stress among interns, residents, and attending physicians using Ecological Momentary Assessment technology, the gold-standard method for real-time measurement of psychological characteristics. METHOD The autho...

Copyright 1999 Compaq Computer Corporation. All rights reserved This document features informal reports by interns who spent the summer of 1999 working with researchers at Compaq Systems Research Center (SRC). The interns were graduate students in computer science or electrial engineering Ph.D. programs. Each worked for about three months at SRC, collaborating on a project with the research sta...

To determine if implementing an educationally minded schedule utilizing consecutive night shifts can moderate the impact of the 2011 duty hour standards on education and patient continuity of care in longitudinal primary care experience (continuity clinic). A 14-month pre-post study was performed in continuity clinic with one supervising physician group and two intern groups. Surveys to assess ...

385, 26th Annual American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Forum, San Antonio, TX. J Vet Intern Med 2008;22:819 (abstract) b Carr EA, Pusterla N, Schott HC, II, et al. Equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) recrudescence and viremia in hospitalized critically ill horses: Abstract #123, 26th Annual American College of Veterinary Internal Medicine Forum, San Antonio, TX. J Vet Intern Med 2008;22:737...

INTRODUCTION A key task of emergency medicine (EM) training programs is to develop a consistent knowledge of core content in recruits with heterogeneous training backgrounds. The traditional model for delivering core content is lecture-based weekly conference; however, a growing body of literature finds this format less effective and less appealing than alternatives. We sought to address this c...

Copyright 2001 Compaq Computer Corporation. All rights reserved This document features informal reports by interns who spent the summer of 2001 working with researchers at Compaq Systems Research Center (SRC). The interns were graduate students in computer science or electrial engineering Ph.D. programs. Each worked for about three months at SRC, collaborating on a project with members of the r...

Kenny Nguyen is a junior majoring in neurobiology and physiology and minoring in psychology at Purdue University. He has been working in the Hollenbeck Lab since 2015, studying the degeneration of mitochondria in neurons and their implications in Parkinson’s disease. For the summer of 2015, he was selected as a Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) intern, and he received the William ...

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I used to be good at multitasking. I could remember multiple steps and details related to a variety of tasks, and I could carry them out all at once. It was a skill that helped me be an accomplished waitress in college and a top-notch medical student and intern. As my life has become more complex (I’m now a wife, mother, teacher, and doctor), multitasking has become more difficult. I have start...

I met Diego (names in this article have been changed to protect patient privacy) for the first time in my primary care clinic at Boston Medical Center when he was 3 days old. When I entered the room, both he and his mother, Esmerelda, were crying. Esmerelda had fled an abusive relationship in the Dominican Republic and arrived in Boston alone, just in time to deliver her first son. She knew no ...