psychotherapy has long been an essential component of clinical psychiatry and many young physicians choose to train in psychiatry residency programs in order to acquire necessary knowledge and skills, and become competent psychotherapists. recent advances in psychopharmacology and neuroscience, and growing dominance of managed care and evidence-based medicine have had dramatic impacts on health...

BACKGROUND The US is home to almost 200 pediatrics residency programs; despite this, there is little information about the relationship between program characteristics and performance in the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) certifying exam. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the relationship between pass rate of the ABP certifying exam with the characteristics of categorical pediatrics residency program...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Missed clinic appointments significantly impact continuity of care, resident education, and clinical productivity. This national survey analyzed the awareness of family practice residency clinics regarding their missed appointment rate and the use of reminder systems. METHODS We mailed a questionnaire to all 468 family practice residency programs in the United States...

Few orthopedic surgical residency programs offer international health electives (IHEs). Efforts to expand these programs have been increasing across medical disciplines. Whether orthopedic residents will participate remains unknown. This study quantified and characterized orthopedic resident interest and barriers to IHEs in US residency programs. A web-based survey was administered to residents...

Residency training is a challenging period in a physician's career owing to a multitude of stressors perhaps not previously encountered. In some cases, these stressors may culminate in a state of burnout. In response, much has been written about the issues of personal wellness during residency training. Recently, duty hours reform has been the major focus of addressing resident wellness; howeve...

We explore the ramifications of object residency assumptions and their impact on residency checking for several subroutine dispatch scenarios: procedural, static object-oriented, and dynamic (virtual) object-oriented. We obtain dynamic counts of the residency checks necessary for execution of several benchmark persistent programs under each of these scenarios. The results reveal that significan...

We explore !.he ramifications ofobject residency assumptions and their impact on residency checking for several subroutine dispatch scenarios: procedural, static object-oriented, and dynamic (virtual) object-oriented. We obtain dynamic counts of the residency checks necessary for execution of several benchmark persistent programs under each of these scenarios. The resuhs reveal that significant...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requires that residency programs teach residents about handoffs and ensure their competence in this communication skill. Development of hand-off curricula for anesthesia residency programs is hindered by the paucity of evidence regarding how to conduct, teach, and evaluate handoffs in the various settings where anesthesia practitioners wo...

Residency faculty in all specialties will be required by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) to fully implement competencies into residency programs by 2006. Understanding the new requirements is complicated by having several sets of guiding documents from different sources, including the general competencies of the ACGME, the Residency Review Committee for Family P...

BACKGROUND Medical education program evaluation allows for curricular improvements to both Undergraduate (UME) and Graduate Medical Education (GME). UME programs are left with little more than match rates and self-report to evaluate success of graduates in The Match. OBJECTIVE This manuscript shares a novel method of program evaluation through a systematic assessment of Match outcomes. DESI...