background it is believed that self-evaluation can empower students; help them to pick higher goals and to try harder to realize these targets. however, the nursing students’ self-evaluation on clinical skills has rarely been studied. objectives to investigate the correlation of nursing internship trainees’ self-evaluation of clinical skills with their teachers’ evaluation. conclusions the stud...

because of on-call responsibilities, many medical residents are subjected to chronic partial sleep deprivation, a form of sleep restriction whereby individuals have chronic patterns of insufficient sleep. it is unclear whether deterioration in cognitive processing skills due to chronic partial sleep deprivation among medical residents would influence educational exposure or patient safety.twent...

Where did you perform your internship/residency and what field of specialization did you choose? I completed my internship and residency in Internal Medicine at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania. This was one of the formative experiences of my medical career, and was where I truly learned to become a physician. I was fortunate to have been trained by wonderfully gifted and talented...

The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has declared medical professionalism to be a competence analogous to competence at medical practice. Medical educators accordingly seek to develop ways in which to teach and assess medical professionalism as they now teach and assess clinical medicine. The author contends that professionalism is medical morality and that while bei...

BACKGROUND Women and minorities remain underrepresented in orthopaedic surgery. In an attempt to increase the diversity of those entering the physician workforce, Nth Dimensions implemented a targeted pipeline curriculum that includes the Orthopaedic Summer Internship Program. The program exposes medical students to the specialty of orthopaedic surgery and equips students to be competitive appl...

OBJECTIVE To assess the opinions of emergency medicine (EM) residents and program directors about the value of completing a nonrequired 1-year internship before entering an EM residency program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). METHODS An eight-question, self-administered online survey was e-mailed to EM residents who had completed a nonrequired i...

OBJECTIVE To know the opinion of Medical interns, University of Brasilia on the preparatory courses for medical residency. METHODS Application of a standardized questionnaire to students if the first year of internship. RESULTS Sixty-seven of the 74 students (90.5%) of the first two semesters of internship participated. Among them, 57 (85.1%) are enrolled or intend to enroll in preparatory ...

Introduction: The multiple mini-interview (MMI) model can beuseful to evaluate non-cognitive domains and guide the selectionprocess in medical residency programs. The aim of this study wasto evaluate the reliability and acceptability of the MMI model forthe selection of residents in a cardiology residency program.Methods: We conducted an observational and prospecti...

CONTEXT Although the prevalence of depression among medical interns substantially exceeds that of the general population, the specific factors responsible are not well understood. Recent reports of a moderating effect of a genetic polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) in the serotonin transporter protein gene on the likelihood that life stress will precipitate depression may help to understand the developmen...