Intervention: Both studies used a crossover design. Interns were randomly assigned to either a traditional or intervention call schedule. The traditional call schedule involved in-house call every 3 night with a limit of 30 hours of consecutive work. The intervention schedule involved call every 4 night with a limit of 16 hours of consecutive work. Interns recorded their sleep and work hours an...

aim: education is a service, which is influenced by the provider. nowadays, there are a lotof challenges in health care systems, which requires a proper preparation to meet them.medical interns are one of the future components of health care system, who should beprepared very well to meet these challenges. we preformed this survey to assess themedical interns’ satisfaction in shahid beheshti un...

BACKGROUND Past research studies on the exploration of attributes to the stress of doctors/medical interns were reported more often than the types of coping strategies, healthy practices to strengthen their internal resources to deal effectively with the stressful situations. OBJECTIVES The present study was conducted to find such internal resource - "mindfulness" as a mediator of coping, per...

OBJECTIVES To develop a low-cost biomaterial-covered chest tube simulation model and assess its possible usefulness for developing the chest tube insertion skills among medical interns. Methods: This mannequin-based interventional study was performed in a University hospital setting. We included 63 physicians performing emergency medicine internship at the Faculty of Medicine, Karadeniz Technic...

BACKGROUND A recent randomized controlled trial in critical-care units revealed that the elimination of extended-duration work shifts (> or =24 h) reduces the rates of significant medical errors and polysomnographically recorded attentional failures. This raised the concern that the extended-duration shifts commonly worked by interns may contribute to the risk of medical errors being made, and ...

BACKGROUND Internship is an integral part of MBBS training programme and mandatory to all students. Kathmandu University Medical School has adopted a programme of compulsory one year rotating internship including 6 weeks community exposure in out reach clinics for the first batch of students. The purpose of the study is to evaluate interns' feedback concerning learning, education and satisfacti...

BACKGROUND Approximately 25% of the residents' time in each shift is allocated to educating lower-level assistants and interns. Assistants have played a major role in interns' education. AIM To assess the teaching abilities of emergency medicine assistants in the training and monitoring of medical interns and undergraduate students. METHODS This cross-sectional study was performed in 2015 a...

BACKGROUND Medical students report high stress levels and in particular, the clinical phase is a demanding one. The field of medicine is still described as having a patriarchal culture which favors aspects like a physicians' perceived certainty and rationalism. Also, the Effort-Recovery Model explains stress as coming from a discrepancy between job demands, job control, and perceived work poten...

OBJECTIVE To compare the cancer knowledge and skills of interns in 2001 who graduated from graduate medical program (GMP) courses with those from non-GMP courses, and to compare the cancer knowledge and skills of interns in 2001 with those who completed a similar survey in 1990. DESIGN Questionnaire survey of recently graduated interns in a random sample of Australian and New Zealand hospital...

BACKGROUND Assessing the baseline competency of incoming interns is a challenge to faculty of all residency programs. This article describes and evaluates the Intern Clinical Judgment Evaluation, a tool developed to test the clinical judgment and communication skills of incoming interns. METHODS During orientation week, each intern is evaluated using structured clinical scenarios modeled afte...