Background: Emphasis on revise and provide new methods of evaluation in medical colleges are widely increasing. Evaluation Methods based on clinical practice and students’ performance appraisement in health care system and in medical student is introduced as an effective method in some studies. Methods: The aim of this study was to consider the usefulness of a new method to evaluate the medical...

BACKGROUND South African (SA) paediatric interns (recently qualified medical graduates) work in a high disease burdened and resource deficient environment for two years, prior to independent practice. Perceptions of this learning environment (LE) influences their approaches to training as well as the outcomes of this period of development. Obstacles to creating a supportive LE and supervisor in...

BACKGROUND Improper catheterization can lead to urethral injury. Yet research from four continents suggests training of junior doctors in catheterization is insufficient. European research suggests a majority of catheterization related morbidities occur when the procedure is performed by interns. METHODS To assess the knowledge and practices of medical interns relating to urethral catheteriza...

OBJECTIVE To describe the perspectives of surgical interns regarding the implications of the new Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) duty-hour regulations for their training. DESIGN We compared responses of interns and surgery program directors on a survey about the proposed ACGME mandates. SETTING Eleven general surgery residency programs. PARTICIPANTS Two hundre...

BACKGROUND The Chang Gung University School of Medicine adopted problem-based learning (PBL) education 3 years ago. A questionnaire was designed to evaluate the effectiveness of this teaching method, and the results were analyzed to determine statistical significance. METHODS In June 2001, all the interns in the Medical and Surgical departments of the Chang Gung Memorial Hospital were compuls...

BACKGROUND We aimed to design, implement, and evaluate the feasibility and reliability of a multisource feedback (MSF) system to assess interns in their clerkship year in the Middle Eastern culture, the Kingdom of Bahrain. METHOD The study was undertaken in the Bahrain Defense Force Hospital, a military teaching hospital in the Kingdom of Bahrain. A total of 21 interns (who represent the tota...

ABSTRACT OBJECTIVE To study the attitudes of Iranian medical students towards the do-not-resuscitate (DNR) decision. METHODS In this cross-sectional study, 220 medical students (110 interns and 110 residents) of Tehran University of medical sciences were selected. They asked to answer to the questionnaire which included two items: first item consisted of demographic questions (age, sex, an...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Simulation-based medical education (SBME) is used to teach residents. However, few studies have evaluated its clinical impact. The goal of this study was to evaluate the impact of an SBME session on pediatric interns' clinical procedural success. METHODS This randomized trial was conducted at 10 academic medical centers. Interns were surveyed on infant lumbar puncture...

background and purpose: the importance of training basic and advanced life support for undergraduates and graduated physicians are now widely recognized. graduates of medical schools in iran immediately get license to practice medicine without any supervision. therefore, clarification of the best phases for training cpr and the optimum mastery level in each phase is very important. this study i...

BACKGROUND Burnout is a common problem for interns and residents. It may be related to medical error, but little is known about this relationship. The purpose of this study was to determine the association between burnout and perceived medical errors among interns and residents. METHODS The study group consisted of interns and residents working in a university hospital in Busan. Data were pro...