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March 27, 2013 | Human Capital Blog Post
Two new studies find that limited shifts for first-year medical residents may not be improving resident well-being—and that they may be decreasing both the quality of care they provide and their educational opportunities.
December 19, 2012 | Story
A Clinical Scholar argues for a closer look at the impact of reduced duty hours on resident training and patient care.
December 18, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Long working hours that cause fatigue, sleepiness, burnout and depression are a threat to the personal safety of medical residents, according to a Mayo Clinic study published this month.
August 20, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
Catherine Dower discusses the state of graduate medical education funding.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Teamwork requires mutual respect. Teamwork between community and hospital-based physicians can improve the quality of care. This study investigated attitudes among pediatric residents towards community-based physicians.
July 27, 2011 | Story
Growing up in Alaska, she knew no female physicians, no Native American physicians and no physicians of color. "You don't know what you can do until you're exposed to the possibility," she says.
March 25, 2010 | Program Result
From 2006 to 2009, RWJF expanded ACT into a program of its own: Achieving Competency Today. Six teaching hospitals participated, including the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine.
November 12, 2009 | Evaluation
The evaluation of Partnerships for Quality Education (PQE) consisted of a survey of 63 project directors in order to define the specific managed care competencies and related patient care tasks that residence program directors expected residents to learn as a result of the new training.
September 1, 2006 | Journal Article
More than 2 million women are injured by domestic violence and 500,000 require medical treatment annually, yet only 10 percent of primary care physicians routinely screen for domestic violence. The authors of this study examine whether resident phys ...
September 1, 2006 | Journal Article
Compliance with work hour limitations imposed on medical residents in 2003 by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) has been high, but few studies have examined the impact of the regulations on residents' opportunities for ...