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1 Intern of the Ophthalmology Complementary Internship at the General Hospital of the Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. 2 Intern of the Neurosurgery Complementary Internship at the General Hospital of the Hospital and University Center of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal. 3 Ophthalmology Hospital Assistant at the General Hospital of the Hospital and University Center of Co...

OBJECTIVE The multiple mini-interview (MMI) has been shown to have a positive correlation with early medical school performance, clerkship evaluations, and national licensing examinations. There is limited data on its predictive validity at the postgraduate level. METHODS Six hundred and nineteen internship candidates were interviewed using the MMI format by the internal medicine residency pr...

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The SPURS Intern will be assigned to work closely with an advanced post-doctoral, senior member of a laboratory. Since the SPURS Intern will have already established a substantial interest in biomedical research and will have significant prior experience in laboratory investigation, it is anticipated that the emphasis will be on training in novel techniques specific to the proposed research pro...

BACKGROUND The optimal structure of an internal medicine ward team at a teaching hospital is unknown. We hypothesized that increasing the ratio of attendings to housestaff would result in an enhanced perceived educational experience for residents. METHODS Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (HUMC) is a tertiary care, public hospital in Los Angeles County. Standard ward teams at HUMC, with a housestaff...

OBJECTIVES Residency training programs are required to assess and document residents' competency in communication. Multisource evaluations that include direct resident observations are preferred. Previous studies have often used methods of asking faculty members to evaluate residents on behaviors they did not witness. METHODS Twenty first year pediatric residents (interns) were evaluated prea...

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The Teaching-Learning Interchange (TLI), a federal Preparing Tomorrow’s Teachers to Use Technologies project, will be in its second year of developing an online support community for “pre-intern teachers,” a designation in California for new teachers who are not credentialed and have not passed subject matter competency. The intent of the pre-intern program is to provide a way for those wishing...