INTRODUCTION This study analyzed the association between psychomotor development and socio-demographic and family stimulation factors in 3-year-old children from San Carlos de Bariloche. POPULATION AND METHODS A total of 152 apparently healthy children aged 35-37 months old who attended municipal and private kindergartens were evaluated. Children's performance in personal-social, fne motor, l...

BACKGROUND In the USA, the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education, Educational Innovations Project is a partner in reshaping residency training to meet increasingly complex systems of health care delivery. AIM We describe the creation and implementation of milestones as a vehicle for translating educational theory into practice in preparing residents to provide safe, autonomous p...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) and the American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) collectively constitute the foundation of professional self-regulation in the United States. In February 1999, the 2 organizations approved 6 general competencies broadly relevant for all medical practice, followed by the official launch of the Outcomes Project in 2001. It was e...

dicting results. The aim of this follow-up study was to examine the association between prenatal exposure to DDE and PCB and motor development and developmental milestones; crawling, standing-up and walking in children in Greenland, Ukraine and Poland. Methods CB-153 and p,p’-DDE were measured in maternal blood in second or third trimester of pregnancy as a bio-marker of the child’s prenatal ex...