objective: the aim of this study was to investigate the current factors affecting the choice of ‎psychiatry as a specialty and to detect the main factors in their choice.‎ method: this descriptive study included 75 first year psychiatry residents in the academic year of ‎‎2014/2015. a likert-type anonymous questionnaire consisting of academic and ‎demographic data with 43 questions, which evalu...

Institution(s): (Matsumoto, Sano, Ishikawa) Assistant Professor of Anesthesiology-Resuscitology. (Iida) Research fellow in Anesthesiology-Resuscitology. (Sakabe) Professor and Chairman of Anesthesiology-Resuscitology. (Nakakimura) Associate Professor of Anesthesiology-Resuscitology. Received from the Department of Anesthesiology-Resuscitology, Yamaguchi University, School of Medicine, Yamaguchi...

Authors: Randall C. Cork, M.D., Ph.D., Department of Anesthesiology, LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA Patrick Wood, M.D., Department of Anesthesiology, LSU Health Sciences Center , Shreveport, LA Norbert Ming M.D., Department of Anesthesiology, LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA Clifton Shepherd M.D., Department of Anesthesiology, LSU Health Sciences Center, Shreveport, LA Jam...

The American Academy of Pain Medicine and the American Society for Regional Anesthesia have recently focused on the evolving practice of acute pain medicine. There is increasing recognition that the scope and practice of acute pain therapies must extend beyond the subacute pain phase to include pre-pain and pre-intervention risk stratification, resident and fellow education in regional anesthes...

Harald Hentschke, Claudia Benkwitz, Matthew I. Banks, Mark G. Perkins, Gregg E. Homanics, and Robert A. Pearce Department of Anesthesiology, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin; Section of Experimental Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Eberhard-Karls-University, Tuebingen, Germany; and Departments of Anesthesiology and Pharmacology, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicin...

In Reply:—It was an honor to read the response of Dr. Moore to my editorial about defining professionalism within anesthesiology. Dr. Moore’s comments are presented from the perspective of the President of the American Society of Anesthesiologists (ASA), highlighting several important issues not emphasized in my manuscript because of space constraints of the editorial format. The Lifeline Campa...

1Department of Anesthesiology, Wan Fang Hospital, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan 2Department of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, College of Medicine, Taipei Medical University, Taipei, Taiwan 3Department of Anesthesia, Corniche Hospital, Abu Dhabi, UAE 4Department of Anesthesiology, Nagoya University Hospital, Nagoya, Japan 5Department of Anesthesiology, Kansai Medical University,...