background: emphasis on revise and provide new methods of evaluation in medical colleges are widely increasing. evaluation methods based on clinical practice and students’ performance appraisement in health care system and in medical student is introduced as an effective method in some studies. methods: the aim of this study was to consider the usefulness of a new method to evaluate the medical...

Most emergency medicine (EM) residency programs provide an orientation program for their incoming interns, with the lecture being the most common education activity during this period. Our orientation program is designed to bridge the gap between undergraduate and graduate medical education by ensuring that all learners demonstrate competency on Level 1 Milestones, including medical knowledge (...

BACKGROUND A recent randomized controlled trial in critical-care units revealed that the elimination of extended-duration work shifts (> or =24 h) reduces the rates of significant medical errors and polysomnographically recorded attentional failures. This raised the concern that the extended-duration shifts commonly worked by interns may contribute to the risk of medical errors being made, and ...

BACKGROUND A sound knowledge of pathophysiology of a disease and clinical pharmacology and therapeutics (CPT) of a drug is required for safe and rational prescribing. The aim of this study was therefore to assess how adequately the undergraduate CPT teaching had prepared interns in Nigeria for safe and rational prescribing and retrospectively, to know how they wanted the undergraduate curriculu...

We would like to thank Dr Sarani and Dr Alarcon for their critique of our work, published online in Critical Care on 12 January 2005 [1]. We have reviewed the critique, and in general we think that it appropriately describes both the strengths and limitations of our studies. We would like to make a few minor factual clarifications. First, although the study by Lockley and colleagues used a with...

BACKGROUND Subspecialty fellows can serve as a tremendous educational resource to residents; however, there are multiple barriers to an effective resident-fellow teaching interaction in the setting of inpatient consultation. We designed and evaluated a resident-directed intervention to enhance communication and teaching during consultation on the general medicine wards. METHODS Five medical t...

Objective. To compare novice clinicians' performance using GlideScope videolaryngoscopy (GVL) to direct laryngoscopy (DL). Methods. This was a prospective, randomized crossover study. Incoming pediatric interns intubated pediatric simulators in four normal and difficult airway scenarios with GVL and DL. Primary outcomes included time to intubation and rate of successful intubation. Interns rate...

INTRODUCTION Establishing a boot camp curriculum is pertinent for emergency medicine (EM) residents in order to develop proficiency in a large scope of procedures and leadership skills. In this article, we describe our program's EM boot camp curriculum as well as measure the confidence levels of resident physicians through a pre- and post-boot camp survey. METHODS We designed a one-month boot...

PURPOSE To examine the laboratory test ordering patterns of interns to determine the effects of more senior residents' and attendings' supervision on trainees' patterns and residents' perceptions of control in test ordering. METHOD In a 2007 cohort study of 2,066 patients cared for by 85 interns, 56 residents, and 27 attendings on the University of Pennsylvania general medical hospitalist ser...

Jake and Alex were interns in Riverside Hospital’s internal medicine residency program. Almost since day one, Jake had complained to Emma about Alex’s way of doing things. At first, Jake had chalked it up to the enormous difference between being a med student and being an MD. In the beginning, it was an ordeal for interns to retrieve the needed clinical facts in a moment and to manage the overw...