O ur goal with this column is to provide a useful, practical introduction to competency modeling, a practice that is already a mainstay in many health professions and that is likely to find expanded use within health administration in the coming years. The competency model recently made available by the Healthcare Leadership Alliance (HLA) will serve to frame subsequent installments of this col...

Dear Editor, Medical professional proficiency comprises a set of skills, knowledge, and attitudes necessary to efficiently accomplish the practice of medicine.1 The major aim of undergraduate medical education in the region is to produce doctors who are competent and able to meet the health needs of the community while also being capable of continuing medical education.2 Have the medical school...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the practice, experiences and views of motivated and trained family physicians as they attempt to implement informed and shared decision making (ISDM) in routine practice and to identify and understand the barriers they encounter. BACKGROUND Patient involvement in decision making about their health care has been the focus of much academic activity. Although significan...

In this issue, Chan et al. report interesting perspectives on the notion of ‘busyness’ in emergency departments (EDs) [1]. Specifically, they found that faculty and junior residents differed significantly in their conception of busyness and that faculty development around teaching managerial skills is deficient. We feel that the authors have outlined both an issue that cuts to the heart of what...

BACKGROUND One trend in medical education is outcomes-oriented training. Outcomes usually refer to individuals' acquisition of competencies, for example, during training in residency programs. However, little is known about outcomes of these programs. In order to fill this gap, human resource (HR) data were analyzed and alumni of a pediatric residency program were surveyed at the Department of ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES Sleep and circadian rhythms are biologic processes operative in health and disease, but as yet there is no articulated curriculum for undergraduate medical education. DESIGN A multidisciplinary expert-opinion approach was utilized to assess and define education objectives and the potential for implementation. SETTING N/A. PATIENTS OR PARTICIPANTS National Institutes of He...

background: family physician plan is known as one of the most appropriate strategies to implement rural health insurance program in the form of referral system in iran. this study aims to determine the satisfaction of family physicians and service consumers and its causes of dissatisfaction in the south of iran. materials and methods: this cross-sectional study was performed in kerman health ne...

The Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University is a five-year medical school where the major emphasis is to train physician investigators. In this article we describe our experience with reflective writing in our competency-based medical school, which has reflective practice as one of the nine core competencies. We outline how we use reflective writing as a w...

The six competencies of the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education include the lifelong learning skills of evidence-based medicine (EBM)/information mastery. We developed and tested an Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) station that would measure these skills in family medicine residents. This EBM OSCE station is a 30-minute station within a regular OSCE exam. It use...

Background Diabetes Mellitus (DM) is a metabolic disorder characterized by high blood glucose level that result from defects in insulin secretion and/or action. Prevalence of type 1 DM (T1DM) has increased every year, including in Asian countries. Effective management of T1DM needs balancies of insulin treatment, diet, physical activities, and education. Physician that involve in T1DM managemen...