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Top specialties for fellowship applicants: 2015 match at a glance
Which specialties attract the most fellowship applicants? Competition for fellowships varies by specialty, so if you plan to pursue subspecialty training, take time to note key trends that may impact your field. Here are a few that stood out among last year’s fellowship applicants. A record-breaking year for fellowship applicants The 2015 appointment year marked the largest in the history of the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) Specialties Matching Service®, featuring 3,674 programs within 56 subspecialties. Combined, these programs offered 8,503 fellowship positions, and 9,538 applicants participated...
Source: AMA Wire - October 15, 2015 Category: Journals (General) Authors: Lyndra Vassar Source Type: news

The Mother of the Beast
Editor’s Note: This post is one of two pieces on the Introduction to Social Medicine and Global Health course at Harvard Medical School. Read the other piece here. By: Benjamin Oldfield, MD, a fourth-year resident in the urban health-focused combined internal medicine-pediatrics residency program at Johns Hopkins Hospital When asked about my medical school experience, I like to map my memories onto the arc of an epic poem. Both are lengthy, traversing vast ground, formative—the allegory seems to fit. First-year began in medias res, in the middle of things, as epics tend to do. Like the horrific storm at the beginni...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - January 26, 2016 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Guest Author Tags: Featured Trainee Perspective global health health disparities patient centered care patient's story social determinants of health social history social medicine Source Type: blogs

Patients of Our Own: Defining "Ownership" of Clinical Care in Graduate Medical Education.
Abstract Phenomenon: Learning to assume ownership of patient care is a critical objective of medical training. However, little is known about how ownership is best defined and measured or about its value to trainees. The authors aimed to define ownership and elucidate the significance of developing ownership skills over the course of pediatric residency training. Approach: Focus groups and phone interviews were held with pediatric residency program directors (N = 18) and pediatric residents (N = 14). Focus groups and interviews were audio-recorded, transcribed verbatim, and qualitatively analyzed using the...
Source: Teaching and Learning in Medicine - February 1, 2019 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: Greenzang KA, Revette AC, Kesselheim JC Tags: Teach Learn Med Source Type: research

Moderating Effect of Mindfulness on the Relationships Between Perceived Stress and Mental Health Outcomes Among Chinese Intensive Care Nurses
ConclusionThe high prevalence of prolonged stress, burnout syndromes, and depressive and anxiety symptoms in Chinese ICU nurses deserves immediate attention. The findings of the present study show that mindfulness is associated with lower levels of stress and fewer mental health complaints among Chinese ICU nurses. This study also indicates that mindfulness has the potential to act as a stress-coping resource. As a result, our findings suggest that mindfulness may be a target variable for health interventionists working with ICU nurses. Given the popularity of mindfulness, it might be a useful component of preventive healt...
Source: Frontiers in Psychiatry - April 17, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research

What Care Models Have Generalists Implemented to Address Transition from Pediatric to Adult Care?: a Qualitative Study
ConclusionsParticipants used disparate care models. Common features and strategies among interviews highlight key functions and attributes of transitional care across settings, suggest important elements of care post-transfer, and clarify the role of generalists.
Source: Journal of General Internal Medicine - August 12, 2019 Category: Internal Medicine Source Type: research

Transcript for The Eco-Normalization Model: A New Framework for Evaluating Innovations
Below is a transcript of the following Academic Medicine Podcast episode: The Eco-Normalization Model: A New Framework for Evaluating InnovationsNovember 22, 2021 Read more about this episode and listen here. Toni Gallo: Hi everyone. I’m Toni Gallo. I’m a staff editor with the journal. Every year Academic Medicine publishes the proceedings of the annual Research in Medical Education sessions that take place at the AAMC’s Learn Serve Lead meeting. Toni Gallo: This year, there were on demand presentations of the RIME papers and live Q&A sessions with the authors. Those recordings...
Source: Academic Medicine Blog - November 22, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Authors: amrounds Tags: AM Podcast Transcript Audio Academic Medicine podcast evaluation innovations RIME Source Type: blogs

Health Care in Northwest Arkansas Responds to Growth
Eric Pianalto didn’t set out to spend a quarter of a billion dollars; after all, it’s only been a few years since he spent $140 million. Welcome to the health care industry in northwest Arkansas. Mercy Northwest announced in April it would invest $247 million over five years to expand its Rogers campus, build clinics in underserved areas and establish an internal medicine residency in cooperation with the University of Arkansas for Medical Services. Pianalto, the president of Mercy Northwest Arkansas, said big investments, such as the one his hospital is making, are critical if health care providers are going t...
Source: Arkansas Business - Health Care - July 4, 2016 Category: American Health Source Type: news

A Physician Who Had Run Clinics Which Proselytized Patients is Now a Government Health Care Leader Positioned to Enforce Her Religious Beliefs on Patients and Citizens Who Do Not Hold Such Beliefs
DiscussionDr Foley is certainly entitled to her religious views.  She is also entitled as a physician to avoid situations in which normal standards of care would push her to provide services to patients that conflict with her religious conviction.  But she is not entitled as a physician to proselytize in the guise of medical practice.Furthermore, as a leader in a government health agency, she is not entitled to use that agency ' s power to enforce her personal religious beliefs on patients who do not hold such beliefs.  Given her career, though, there is every reason to worry that she will do so.  Furth...
Source: Health Care Renewal - July 15, 2018 Category: Health Management Tags: core values deception DHHS Donald Trump mission-hostile management Source Type: blogs

Unintended Consequences of the PHM Board Certification Process
Pediatric Hospital Medicine (PHM) was designated a subspecialty by the American Board of Medical Specialties in 2016, with certification through the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP). While this recognition was a significant milestone, many hospitalists within the PHM community are concerned that the current certification process excludes competent individuals from our field and will have unintended consequences for physicians and the children we serve. The narrow path to certification With the introduction of PHM certification came a practice pathway whereby pediatric hospitalists could achieve certification without fell...
Source: The Hospitalist - August 1, 2022 Category: Hospital Management Authors: Ronda Whitaker Tags: Career Education Employees Hospital Medicine Pediatrics Source Type: research

Challenges Meeting Training Requirements in the Care of Children in Family Medicine Residency Programs: A CERA Study
CONCLUSION: Difficulty meeting ACGME requirements for the care of children in FM residency programs is common, especially for programs with fewer than 20% FMP patients under 19 years of age. Further research is needed to determine how best to assure FM resident competencies in the care of children and adolescents.PMID:37043184 | DOI:10.22454/FamMed.2023.761754
Source: Famly Medicine - April 12, 2023 Category: Primary Care Authors: Scott Krugman Laura Nell Hodo Zachary J Morgan Aimee R Eden Source Type: research