Postgraduate medical education (PGME) is currently transitioning to a competency-based framework. This model clarifies the desired outcome of residency training - competence. However, since the popularization of Ericsson's work on the effect of time and deliberate practice on performance level, his findings have been applied in some areas of residency training. Though this may be grounded in a ...

background: multiple choice questions are used for evaluation of learning in promotion residency exams. due to holding these exams in a standard way, we conducted this study to evaluate the effect of board members, promotion scholarship who designed the questions on these exams results in 2009. methods: a semi experimental research was designed and 105 exam boards of academic members were studi...

BACKGROUND The medical culture is defined by mental illness stigma, non-disclosure, and avoidance of professional treatment. Little research has explored attitudes and help-seeking behaviors of psychiatry trainees if they were to become mentally ill. METHOD Psychiatry residents (n = 106) from training centres across Ontario, Canada completed a postal survey on their attitudes, barriers to dis...

OBJECTIVES This study examined the attitudes of senior residents in psychiatry toward persons with intellectual disabilities. Examining residents' attitudes will highlight areas of training that could be enhanced to better prepare psychiatrists to work with individuals with intellectual disabilities. METHOD A questionnaire was distributed to senior psychiatry residents at a Canada-wide prepar...

CONTEXT Educators across Canada are presently discussing whether the current 4-year residency programmes adequately prepare paediatricians for their future careers. Studies carried out in the USA have repeatedly shown areas of weakness in residency training, but there are no studies looking at the overall adequacy of training across Canada. OBJECTIVES To assess practising paediatricians' perc...

INTRODUCTION The ability to teach is a critical component of residency and future practice. This is recognized by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, which incorporates teaching functions into the CanMEDS competencies. The aim of our study was to identify how emergency medicine specialty programs across Canada prepare their residents for roles as teachers and to compare thes...

Objectives: In 2019, the Insititue for Health Metrics and Evaluation reported that 16% of life lost were attributed to mental health. As a result, global shortage psychiatrists is pressing issue due increasing burden illness. 2016, mere 5% US medical students chose psychiatry as career, trend mirrored in Germany Italy. 2016 have graduated or transitioned into residency 2023, their attitu...

In 2011, the baby boomer generation officially commences its residency in the 65 years and over age group (U.S. Census Bureau, 2006). The much anticipated rapid growth in the population aged 65 years and over between 2011 and 2030 will challenge health care systems worldwide. Mental health services for older people will need to prepare for a near doubling of possible demand based upon estimates...

OBJECTIVES Canadian residency training programs (RTP) have a program director (PD) and a residency program committee (RPC) overseeing program administration. Limited guidance is available about the ideal administrative structure of an RTP. This article describes administrative load in Canadian RTPs, presents a novel approach to delegating core administrative tasks within the RTP, and provides i...