1 BACKGROUND Graduate medical education has recently undergone a major archetypal shift toward competency-based evaluations of residents’ performance. The implementation of the milestone programs by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education is a core component of the shift, designed to ensure uniformity in measuring residency knowledge using a series of specialty-specific achieve...

Objectives: Determine predictors of hospitalization and institutionalization in Medicaid populations with Alzheimer’s Disease (AD). Methods: Data were obtained from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Individuals enrolled in Florida, New Jersey, and New York Medicaid programs on January 1, 2004, remained in that program for 1 year and exposed to an AD medication were included....

The Richard H. Hutchings Psychiatric Center (HPC), located in Syracuse, is a New York State Mental Hygiene Facility providing mental health services to the Central New York Region. At this time the Center primarily serves the 473,000 residents of Onondaga County; however, when fully operational, it will also provide services to the 287,000 residents of surrounding Madison, Oswego, Cayuga, and C...

OBJECTIVE To pilot test if Orthopaedic Surgery residents could self-assess their performance using newly created milestones, as defined by the Accreditation Council on Graduate Medical Education. METHODS In June 2012, an email was sent to Program Directors and administrative coordinators of the 154 accredited Orthopaedic Surgery Programs, asking them to send their residents a link to an onlin...

Evolutionary graph theory studies the evolutionary dynamics in a population structure given as a connected graph. Each node of the graph represents an individual of the population, and edges determine how offspring are placed. We consider the classical birth-death Moran process where there are two types of individuals, namely, the residents with fitness 1 and mutants with fitness r. The fitness...

Social Identity and Inequality: The Impact of China’s Hukou System We conduct an experimental study to investigate the causal impact of social identity on individuals’ response to economic incentives. We focus on China’s household registration (hukou) system which favors urban residents and discriminates against rural residents in resource allocation. Our results indicate that making individual...

Politics is not the ghost in the machine of global health policy. Conceptually, it makes little sense to argue otherwise, while history is replete with examples of individuals and movements engaging politically in global health policy. Were one looking for ghosts, a more likely candidate would be democracy, which is currently under attack by a new global health technocracy. Civil society moveme...

background: acquired immune deficiency syndrome (aids) is a fatal viral disease which can affect the patient’s immune system and render the patient susceptible to opportunistic infections. in recent years, the number of women with hiv acquired through sexual transmission has increased. therefore, due to the importance of quality of life (qol) among these women and the impact of violence and soc...