OBJECTIVE An electronic emergency department information system (EDIS) can monitor the progress of a patient visit, facilitate computerized physician order entry, display test results and generate an electronic medical record. Ideally, use of an EDIS will increase overall emergency department (ED) efficiency. However, in academic settings where new interns rotate through the ED monthly, the "le...

BACKGROUND It is widely known that the opportunity for medical students to be observed and to receive feedback on their procedural skills performance is variable in the senior years. To address this problem, we provided our Pre-Intern (PrInt) students with "one-to-one" formative feedback on their ability to perform urethral catheterization (U/C) and hypothesized that their future practice of U/...

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1 Intern, Internal Medicine, Santa Casa da Misericórdia do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 2 MSc in Gastroenterology; PhD Student, Postgraduate Course in Internal Medicine, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ); Assistant Professor, Internal Medicine Clinic, Universidade Gama Filho (UGF) and Fundação Técnico-Educacional Souza Marques, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil 3 Pneumologist...

1 Gastrointestinal Surgeon and Digestive Endoscopist. Gastroenterology and Endoscopy Coordinator at the Hospital Cardiovascular del Niño de Cundinamarca in Soacha, Cundinamarca Colombia. 2 Gastrointestinal Surgeon and Digestive Endoscopist at the Hospital Cardiovascular del Niño de Cundinamarca in Soacha, Cundinamarca Colombia and at Saludcoop and at the League Against Cancer in Bogotá, Colombi...

INTRODUCTION The unequal and inequitable distribution of the medical workforce between rural and urban parts of Australia has been well documented. Commonwealth and state governments have introduced several significant initiatives in an attempt to address this imbalance, including recruitment of many overseas trained doctors. One longer-term initiative is the funding of university departments o...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether information collected during the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) predicts clinical performance during residency. METHODS Ten faculty members rated the overall quality of 69 pediatric house officers as clinicians. After rating by the faculty, folders were reviewed for absolute rank on the NRMP match list; relative ranking (where they ranked in their pos...

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