Source: KevinMD I don’t like selecting colleagues through the Match. The process was established to allow students to get the best opportunity available and I feel that our program (and our patients who rely on our trainees to provide care) is in jeopardy every year. It always turns out better than I anticipate, so I shouldn’t[…]
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Source: KevinMD On Twitter a while ago, a medical student asked me how surgical program directors select new residents. Then a discussion arose among some academic surgeons on the same topic. Someone suggested that medical school grades were the best way to tell whether an applicant would be a successful resident. The fact is that[…]
Source: KevinMD WES FISHER, MD | EDUCATION | FEBRUARY 24, 2014 “A new roadmap for improving residents’ professional skills was released Tuesday by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)” begins the press release. As I dove into this announcement a bit further, I discovered the origins of this initiative outlined in this executive summary published by the ACGME on the[…]
Source: ASPR By Crystal Peterson, Director, Physician Recruiting and Retention, Specialists On Call, Inc., Reston, VA A 52-year-old mother of three is brought into the emergency department of an urban hospital, displaying symptoms of a stroke. Nurses and medical staff collect patient data and medical history, the ED physician orders a CT, and asks the nurse[…]
Source: KevinMD PAUL BERGL, MD | EDUCATION | FEBRUARY 18, 2014 Recently, our residency program had the excellent fortune of hosting Dr. Bob Wachter as a visiting speaker. Dr. Wachter is considered a pioneer in the hospitalist movement and has built his career around inpatient quality and safety. During lunch with Dr. Wachter, some of our residents, and hospitalist faculty, we[…]
Source: ScrubWars The National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) surveyed directors of residency programs in 2008 and 2010, asking them what consideration was most important when deciding which applicants to interview, and the criteria most important to rank residency applicants. The program directors where asked to rank specific criteria that influenced their decision to rank the[…]
Source: ScrubWars The National Residency Matching Program (NRMP) surveyed directors of residency programs in 2008 and 2010, asking them what consideration was most important when deciding which applicants to interview, and the criteria most important to rank residency applicants. The program directors where asked to rank specific criteria that influenced their decision to rank the[…]
Source: KevinMD Primary care physicians (PCPs) have too little time per patient which means too many referrals to specialists, too little time listening and thinking, no time to delve into the stress or emotional causes of many symptoms and substantial frustration by PCP and patient alike. Previously in this continuing series on primary care, I described[…]