BACKGROUND The Swedish resident duty hour limit is regulated by Swedish and European legal frameworks. With a maximum average of 40 working hours per week, the Swedish duty hour regulation is one of the most restrictive in the world. At the same time, the effects of resident duty hour limits have been neither debated nor researched in the Swedish context. As a result, little is known about the ...

BACKGROUND Resident procedure minimums have been established in surgical training programs to ensure adequate training experience. However, achievement of these minimums may fluctuate. Review of resident experience is essential for maintaining successful training curricula. OBJECTIVE To evaluate trends in ophthalmology resident surgical experience from 2009 to 2015. METHODS This was a datab...

BACKGROUND This study was undertaken to examine the current level of operations and management education within US-based Emergency Medicine Residency programs. METHODS Residency program directors at all US-based Emergency Medicine Residency programs were anonymously surveyed via a web-based instrument. Participants indicated their levels of residency education dedicated to documentation, bill...

PROBLEM Although resident-as-teacher programs bring postgraduate trainees' teaching skills to a minimum threshold, intensive, longitudinal training is lacking for residents who wish to pursue careers in medical education. The authors describe the development, implementation, and preliminary assessment of the novel track for future clinician-educators that they introduced in the internal medicin...

OBJECTIVE Academic emergency physicians (EPs) often feel that the demands of clinical productivity, income generation, and patient satisfaction conflict with educational objectives. The objective of this study was to explore whether the quality of faculty bedside teaching of residents correlated with high clinical productivity, measured by relative value units (RVUs). We also explored the strat...

the recently approved Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) Common Program Requirements including new Standards for Resident Supervision and Duty Hours will take effect July, 2011. These new requirements revise the initial regulations implemented by the ACGME in 2003 and respond in part to recommendations set forth by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2008. The changes a...

Background: The most recent regulations regarding resident duty hours became effective in July, 2011 and included restriction of shifts to a maximum of 16 hours for interns in all specialties. There is little objective data regarding the impact of these new duty hour limits on resident education. We hypothesized that the duty hour changes would not have a significant impact on intern educationa...

We consider the influence of household-based production on human capital investment. In data from rural Burkina Faso, we document a positive correlation between the presence of girls and enrollment that disappears in households that are able to send out or receive in children. We argue that the connection between education and the sex composition of co-resident children in households that are c...