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Friday, August 29, 2008

A structured conference program improves competency-based surgical education.

Aug 2008 BACKGROUND: Work hour restrictions and new educational standards pose substantial challenges for modern residency programs. We present results from an institutional effort to improve resident education using a... Read more...

A national program director survey of the shift to competency-based education in ophthalmology.

Aug 2008 PURPOSE: To assess the resources, progress, and barriers for program director (PD) compliance with the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) mandate. DESIGN: Survey. PARTICIPANTS: Ophthalmology... Read more...

Pediatric residents' use of jargon during counseling about newborn genetic screening results.

Aug 2008 OBJECTIVE: The goal was to investigate pediatric residents' usage of jargon during discussions about positive newborn screening test results. METHODS: An explicit-criteria abstraction procedure was used to identify... Read more...

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Latest indexed articles for 'Education, Medical, Graduate'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Medicare, graduate medical education, and new policy directions. 7 Aug 2008
• Invited article: Residency Review Committee for neurology: structure and function. 5 Aug 2008
• A structured conference program improves competency-based surgical education. Aug 2008
• Core curriculum in Emergency Medicine. Aug 2008
• A national program director survey of the shift to competency-based education in ophthalmology. Aug 2008
• Pediatric residents' use of jargon during counseling about newborn genetic screening results. Aug 2008
• Recent accreditation council for graduate medical education initiatives have not been shown to improve the education of cardiology fellows. 29 Jul 2008
• Accreditation council for graduate medical education initiatives improve the education of cardiology fellows. 29 Jul 2008
• Modernising Medical Careers and accountability. 26 Jul 2008
• Start sensitising medical students. 17 Jul 2008
• Restructuring medical education. 17 Jul 2008
• Family medicine education in Brazil: challenges, opportunities, and innovations. Jul 2008
• The institutional context of multicultural education: what is your institutional curriculum? Jul 2008
• Perspective: medical students' perceptions of the poor: what impact can medical education have? Jul 2008
• One medical school's effort to ready the workforce for the future: preparing medical students to care for populations who are publicly insured. Jul 2008
• Perspective: transforming chronic care for older persons. Jul 2008
• The medical malpractice "crisis" and graduate medical education. Jul 2008
• Vanishing experience in training for obstetric general anaesthesia: an observational study. Jul 2008
• The perception of gastroenterology fellows towards the relationship between hand size and endoscopic training. Jul 2008
• Consent: what are the issues for training postgraduate doctors? Jul 2008

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Technical information about 'Education, Medical, Graduate'

Definition: Educational programs for medical graduates entering a specialty. They include formal specialty training as well as academic work in the clinical and basic medical sciences, and may lead to board certification or an advanced medical degree.

Descriptor UI: D004503

Alternative terms: Education, Medical, Graduate; Graduate Medical Education; Education, Graduate Medical; Medical Education, Graduate;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; history; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: I02.358.337.350; I02.358.399.350;

Online Note: use EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE & EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING to search EDUCATION, MEDICAL, POSTGRADUATE 1966-74

History Note: 66; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, POSTGRADUATE was see under EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING & EDUCATION, MEDICAL, GRADUATE 1966-74; was heading 1963-65

Technical Notes: differentiate from EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING: see note on EDUCATION, CONTINUING; Manual 34.22; DF: EDUC MED GRAD