Optimizing communication with graduate medical trainees is critical, as they contribute importantly to the mission of academic medical centres. Yet, communication is challenged by their complex schedules, geographic separation, and time constraints. Few studies have examined this issue to offer valuable solutions. Because traditional approaches are suboptimal, two communication tools were imple...

The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association July 2015 | Vol 115 | No. 7 432 From Henry Ford Wyandotte Downriver Cardiology in Brownstown, Michigan (Dr Rogers); West Suburban Medical Center in Oak Park, Illinois (Dr Gundala); Oakwood Southshore Medical Center in Trenton, Michigan (Dr Ramos); and Elmhurst Memorial Hospital in Illinois (Dr Serajian). Drs Gundala and Ramos are in their thir...

The Master’s of Public Health (MPH) degree is growing in popularity among a number of higher education institutions throughout the world as a distance education graduate program. This paper offers an overview of program design and development strategies that promote successful distance delivery of MPH programs. Design and development challenges are discussed in terms of type of distance deliver...

OBJECTIVE To examine the educational benefits of international elective rotations during graduate medical education. PARTICIPANTS AND METHODS We studied Mayo International Health Program (MIHP) participants from April 1, 2001, through July 31, 2008. Data from the 162 resident postrotation reports were reviewed and used to quantitatively and qualitatively analyze MIHP elective experiences. Qua...

UNLABELLED Studies on computer-aided instruction and web-based learning have left many questions unanswered about the most effective use of technology-assisted education in graduate medical education. OBJECTIVE We conducted a review of the current medical literature to report the techniques, methods, frequency and effectiveness of technology-assisted education in graduate medical education. ...

Interest in the use of the progress examination has grown in the current culture of accountability in higher education. The Accreditation Council for Pharmacy Education’s (ACPE’s) Standards 2007 calls for comprehensive, knowledgeand performance-based examinations as part of a school or college of pharmacy’s evaluation and assessment of student learning. Progress examinations have been used prim...

BACKGROUND Role modeling is an important and valuable educational method. It is predominant throughout (under-)graduate medical education, and attributes of exemplary medical role models are manifold. AIM This article describes the impact of poor role modeling on medical students' professional and personal development on the basis of a singular incident at an associated teaching hospital. In ...

A new approach to assessment is emerging in medical education, called programmatic assessment. Programmatic assessment is an approach in which routine information about the learner’s competence and progress is continually collected, analyzed and, where needed, complemented with purposively collected additional assessment information, with the intent to both maximally inform the learner and thei...

It is now widely accepted that the United States is on the cusp of deepening shortages of physicians. This article will briefly review how these shortages could have been anticipated, how they are being manifested, and how policymakers were drawn to the contrary conclusion, and it will discuss the challenges that now exist as the nation undertakes to expand undergraduate and graduate medical ed...

The PHARMINE (Pharmacy Education in Europe) consortium surveyed pharmacy education and practice in 2012. Surveys were updated in 2017 for publication. The PHARMINE consortium was especially interested in specialization in pharmacy education and practice (for community, hospital, and industrial pharmacy), and in the impact of the Bologna agreement and the directive of the European Commission on ...