The multidimensional educational and clinical care processes in medical schools and hospitals involve many individuals, one of which is the physician resident. Medical residents have two different roles, as students of universities’ specialty programs and as healthcare professional workers employed by medical institutions and the healthcare system. The educational function of physicians is as o...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Little is known regarding the applied medical informatics and computing skills of family practice residents and faculty, yet such information is critical when planning a medical informatics curriculum. We conducted a survey at our institution to collect this information. METHODS An applied medical informatics and computing skills survey was administered to 93 first-y...

OBJECTIVE To assess residents' propensity to display the sunk-cost effect, an irrational decision-making bias, in medical treatment decisions; and to compare residents' and undergraduates' susceptibility to the bias in non-medical, everyday behaviors. DESIGN Cross-sectional, in-person survey. SETTING Louisiana State University, two locations: Medical Center-Baton Rouge and Main Campus-Psych...

Burnout is highly prevalent in medical residents. In order to prevent or reduce burnout in medical residents, we should gain a better understanding of contributing and protective factors of burnout. Therefore we examined the associations of job demands and resources, home demands and resources, and work-home interferences with burnout in male and female medical residents. This study was conduct...

BACKGROUND The "hidden curriculum" and role models for responding to medical errors might play a central role in influencing residents' attitudes about disclosure. We sought to compare surgical and nonsurgical residents' exposure to role modeling for responding to medical errors and their attitudes about error disclosure. STUDY DESIGN We conducted a cross-sectional, electronic survey of surgi...

OBJECTIVE To assess the perspectives and preferences of medical students and residents regarding professionalism and ethics education. METHODS A new written survey with 124 items (scale: "strongly disagree" = 1, "strongly agree" = 9) was sent to all medical students (n=308) and PGY 1-3 residents (n=233) at one academic center. RESULTS Of the 336 participants (200 students, 65% response; 136...

background and purpose: medical education programs' success depends on the efficiency and adequacy of clinical experiences, one of the most important factors recognized in this field is learning atmosphere and environment. professor’s features, students' learning experiences and characteristics of the program implementation environment are of those cases that vary in different universities. one...