Editor's Picks “These days when a program director meets with a trainee, they often spend nearly all of their time ticking off boxes, leaving little opportunity to get to know one another and identify problems and opportunities that deserve attention.”
- Richard Gunderman, MD, and Darel Heitkamp, MD, discuss the drawbacks of Milestones in a post for The Health Care Blog.  To find out how trust is formed between senior residents and their junior colleagues, researchers interviewed nearly 500 internal medicine residents from five programs and recently published their findings in Academic Medicine. Personal finance website WalletHub recently ranked all 50 states and the District of Columbia based on 11 metrics to determine where is the best place for physicians to practice. The metrics included mean annual wages, number of hospitals per 100,000 residents, malpractice award payouts, and current and future competition. A petition calling on the National Board of Medical Examiners to end the Step 2 Clinical Skills exam has collected more than 12,000 signatures from medical students, residents, and physicians.
Marketing Spotlight ACGME-accredited programs are required to establish a clinical competency committee (CCC) to evaluate their residents—a task made even more complicated by the lack of guidance on how to properly run a CCC.
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