1Jagveer Singh Yadav, 2Ashok K Gupta, 3Nandita Kakkar 1Senior Resident, Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India 2Professor and Head, Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (Unit II), Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India 3Associate Professor, Departme...

Introduction Burnout, depression, and suicidality among residents of all specialties have become a critical focus for the medical education community, especially among learners in graduate medical education. In 2017 the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) updated the Common Program Requirements to focus more on resident wellbeing. To address this issue, one working grou...

Participants of the Residency Review and Redesign (R(3)P) Project have created a challenging strategic plan for pediatric residency education. In place of a list of prescriptions for immediate change, the R(3)P Committee recommends an ongoing project of goal-directed change, a quality improvement approach to resident education. It argues for changes based on evidence of important education outc...

Primary care residency programs and their associated primary care clinics face challenges in their goal to simultaneously provide a good education for tomorrow's doctors and excellent care for today's patients. A team from the Center for Excellence in Primary Care at the University of California, San Francisco, conducted site visits to 23 family medicine, internal medicine, and pediatric reside...

OBJECTIVE To survey adult neurology program directors (ANPD) to identify their most pressing needs at a time of dramatic change in neurology resident education. METHODS All US ANPD were surveyed in 2007 using an instrument adjusted from a 1999 survey instrument. The goal was to characterize current program content, the institution and evaluation of the core competencies, program director char...

HYPOTHESIS Surgery residents can learn continuous quality improvement (CQI) principles within a structured curriculum and propose quality improvement projects. DESIGN Curriculum within a surgical residency program. SETTING A university surgical residency program with multiple hospital training sites. PARTICIPANTS Fifteen surgical residents during the dedicated research year. INTERVENTIO...

Resident-as-teacher courses are pretty common in Western medical schools however they are a rarity in Asian and developing countries. The current report is a scholarly analysis of a three day orientation program for senior residents in order to improve their functioning by providing new template either for supplementing basic workshops for faculty or to advocate a change in system. The experien...

Principles/Introduction A. Principles 1. The program must be committed to and be responsible for promoting patient safety and resident well‐being and to providing a supportive educational environment. 2. The learning objectives of the program must not be compromised by excessive reliance on residents to fulfill service obligations. 3. Didactic and clinical education must have priority in the al...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) requires family medicine residencies to demonstrate scholarly activity. A 6-year survey of resident scholarly activity at our residency revealed one regional presentation. We adopted an additional scholarly activty curriculum based on the Association of Family Medicine Residency Directors (AFMRD) Areas of Concentration (AOC) propo...