Editor's Picks Emergency medicine (EM) residents reported receiving valuable feedback from medical education specialist who shadowed them during a shift, according to a study published in Advances in Medical Education and Practice.
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In order to determine if a resident is performing unsatisfactorily, performance expectations have to be clearly stated. These expectations are made known to the resident in the form of written goals and objectives that the program director should review with all residents as a group during intern orientation.
This year’s National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Match was the largest on record in many respects. More than 37,000 applicants actively participated in this year’s Match, an increase of over 1,000 from 2017. In fact, the increase in active participants from 2017 to 2018 was more than twice as much as from 2016 to 2017, which saw a jump of nearly 500 additional participants. Read more.
Marketing Spotlight The Graduate Medical Education Program Management Workbook is an educational tool for coordinators and GME professionals responsible for managing a GME training program.
This workbook includes knowledge application questions grouped by topic areas, listings of commonly used acronyms, and helpful GME resources. Program coordinators can use this workbook to create a self-learning plan, to aid in the creation of a procedural manual for their offices, to identify areas for personal and program improvement, and to prepare for ACGME continuous accreditation through education. Although created for the individual coordinator, this tool can also be purchased and distributed by GME offices as a way to support the education of their program managers and staff.
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