Objectives: For residency programs rotating at multiple sites, building a strong community can be challenging when house staff are geographically separated. Medical educators have had widespread use of technology to create virtual classrooms, discussion boards, and other activities. Less is known, however, about smaller-scale use of technology such as longitudinal…
Objectives: Formal nighttime education is becoming increasingly necessary as more internal medicine (IM) residency programs adopt night-float rotations (NFRs); however, the efficacy of an NFR curriculum throughout an academic year and which topics in an NFR curriculum increase trainee confidence are unknown. We implemented a 12-module, self-paced NFR curriculum for…
Objectives: Despite possible long-term repercussions, few training programs teach their residents about the business of medicine. In particular, certain contractual issues can adversely affect a young physician’s career mobility. Methods: We designed a business-of-medicine curriculum and used a survey to determine whether the curriculum satisfied attendees’ perceived knowledge gaps about…
Objectives: Patient throughput and early discharges are important for decreasing emergency department wait times and creating available beds for new hospital admissions. The educational schedule of internal medicine trainees can interfere with timely discharges, but targeted interventions can help residents meet the hospital’s patient flow needs. Our training program instituted…
Objectives: Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education guidelines require internal medicine residents to develop skills in the interpretation of medical literature and to understand the principles of research. A necessary component is the ability to understand the statistical methods used and their results, material that is not an in-depth focus…
Objectives: Patients’ perception of quality is a critical primary outcome of medical care. Important downstream effects of perceived quality include a more trusting attitude toward the physician, more adherence to treatment, and better treatment outcomes. Patients’ satisfaction issues are important to address during dermatology residency training. The aim of the…
Objective: Online curricula are used increasingly for educating physicians, and evaluating educational outcomes can help improve their effectiveness. It is unknown how specific educational outcomes associate with each other among learners using online curricula. We set out to study how two educational outcomes, learner satisfaction and knowledge, and the learner’s…
Objective: To determine the efficacy of an educational curriculum designed for orthopedic surgery postgraduate year 1 (PGY-1) interns to improve initial Orthopedic In-Training Examination (OITE) performance. Methods: A retrospective cohort study was performed that evaluated the PGY-1 intern OITE performance of one residency training program (n = 55) during 7-year…
Objective:To assert the importance of the use of the healthcare matrix formulation for competency assessment in psychiatry residency training.Methods:We present a case from our inpatient psychiatric facility and format it in the form of the healthcare matrix, which was developed at Vanderbilt University incorporating the Institute of Medicine ‘aims' and…
Objectives:We surveyed the nation’s internal medicine residency training program directors to determine the range and frequency of existing methods by which float experiences are evaluated. Methods:We sent questionnaires to the program directors of all 396 internal medicine residency training program sites in the country. Information requested included program characteristics, months…
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