BACKGROUND Traditionally, medical education does not specifically address the social determinants of health or how to advocate for families' cultural, social or economic needs in spite of our increasingly diverse society. AIM This article describes a new social-legal curriculum added to a Pediatric Resident's Advocacy course. METHODS Pediatric interns completed 'Memos To Myself' after the A...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of a pediatric hospitalist system on housestaff education and experience. SETTING Free-standing academic children's hospital. Hospitalists were introduced in June 24, 1998, to supervise teaching and care on the general pediatric wards. METHODS On 2 surveys, housestaff rated their skills, knowledge, and experiences on the wards (experiences survey), and the ...

introduction. tuberculosis is one of the important diseases caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis , bovis and africanum and has infected one third of worlds population. the highest priority of any tuberculosis control program should be on case finding and treatment. this study was done to determine the level of awareness of general practitioners and interns in yasuj. methods. this study was done...

Introduction. Tuberculosis is one of the important diseases caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis , bovis and africanum and has infected one third of worlds population. The highest priority of any tuberculosis control program should be on case finding and treatment. This study was done to determine the level of awareness of general practitioners and interns in yasuj. Methods. This study was d...

BACKGROUND Despite limited preparation and knowledge base, surgical interns have important teaching responsibilities. Nevertheless, few faculty development programs are aimed at interns. METHODS Succinct teaching skill content was electronically distributed over time (spaced education) to interns in academic year 2010/2011. The interns in the previous year served as historic controls. Electro...

The purpose of this study was to identify perceptions about a school counseling internship program at a university in Adana, Turkey by determining counseling interns’ perspectives on the effects of the internship program and supervisors’ perspectives on interns’ professional development. Data were collected from nine school counseling supervisors, 11 school counseling interns, 11 guidance teach...

In this issue of Pediatrics, Drolet and coauthors report the opinions of pediatric residency program directors about the 2011 resident workhour restrictions 1 year after implementation: “Resident education, quality of life, continuity of patient care have worsened, with no improvements in numerous areas including fatigue, patient safety, and supervision.” Do these opinions simply represent resi...

OBJECTIVE To describe internship training in pediatric psychology and to determine its correspondence with the recommendations of the Society of Pediatric Psychology (SPP) Task Force on Training. METHODS A survey based on the Task Force recommendations was sent to all internship programs that reported offering a major rotation in pediatrics. RESULTS Opportunities in a wide range of assessme...