Residency Articles by Topic: Teaching and Assessing ACGME Core Competencies
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 42, October 25, 2013
The ACGME has created webinars to help program coordinators navigate the Next Accreditation System...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 27, July 12, 2013
There are more than 150 lists of competencies for healthcare professionals, but no common language...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 27, July 12, 2013
Discussions about a single accreditation system for GME have been underway since October 2012, when...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 22, May 31, 2013
Graduation is rewarding for both the residents and the program coordinator. It is gratifying to see...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 16, April 19, 2013
One of the biggest scheduling struggles facing program directors is the service versus education...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 15, April 12, 2013
Residency program coordinators need to stay up-to-date on the latest ACGME standards, support...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 42, November 20, 2012
The resident portfolio may be a repository for the written results of resident work efforts, such...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 42, November 20, 2012
Avid high school and college video gamers performed as well or better than resident physicians in...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 40, October 30, 2012
The first set of milestones to reach completion for the Next Accreditation System (NAS) is in...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 40, October 30, 2012
The ACGME, AOA, and AACOM announced their intentions to move forward with plans to merge into a...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 38, October 16, 2012
Talking mannequins equipped with the latest pieces of simulation technology are the...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 37, October 9, 2012
Residents at Mount Sinai School of Medicine’s Department of Neurosurgery are the...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 37, October 9, 2012
ACGME-International is commencing the second phase of its initiative to expand ACGME...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 37, October 2, 2012
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 16, April 24, 2012
The ACGME released new details about the establishing of categories within the Common Program...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 10, March 13, 2012
Most residents, program directors, coordinators and faculty know what constitutes unprofessional...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 9, March 6, 2012
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 8, February 28, 2012
The world of GME is feeling a seismic shift this week after the ACGME unveiled plans for major...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 8, February 28, 2012
The ACGME Board of Directors is asking the ACGME to take an active role in spearheading an effort...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 3, January 24, 2012
Residents are given a number of different exams to increase their medical knowledge – one of...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 2, January 17, 2012
A new AAMC report stresses the importance of medical education focusing on the impact of lifestyle...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 46, November 29, 2011
A program geared toward training clinical instructors on how to teach the ACGME six core...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 35, September 6, 2011
ink instruction in the medical interview and physical exams to clinical cases. When preclinical...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 30, July 26, 2011
he ACGME requires residents to have a portfolio, but offers few guidelines on what the portfolio...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 26, July 5, 2011
Ideally, your faculty members should teach good interpersonal and communication skills based on...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 24, June 21, 2011
The following tips will help faculty members become better at providing supervision and also...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 22, June 7, 2011
The literature on teaching methods for practice-based learning and improvement (PBLI) is growing...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 20, May 24, 2011
In the developmental approach to learning, teaching ceases to consist of teacher-selected lessons...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 20, May 24, 2011
The ACGME Case Log System includes several reports that present procedural data in different...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 14, April 12, 2011
Learning how to be a physician is no laughing matter—until now. The Medical Humanities and...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 9, March 8, 2011
To be effective, institution leaders and educators should design programs for systematic...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 8, March 1, 2011
Researchers and Bridgeport Hospital/Yale University found that graduates of foreign and U.S...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 7, February 22, 2011
Many programs have not established goals for their journal clubs. Having clear goals and learning...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 7, February 15, 2011
A new study conducted finds that long-sleeved coats do not spread MRSA and other bacteria as some...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 5, February 1, 2011
Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is a part of the practice-based learning and improvement core...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 4, January 25, 2011
A core definition of the hidden curriculum is rooted in the distinction between the formal...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 1, January 4, 2011
After a patient leaves the hospital, residents and fellows typically do not see the outcome of...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 51, December 28, 2010
Maintaining rater anonymity is critical to the success of your 360-degree evaluations. If raters...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 46, November 23, 2010
More than seven years after the ACGME implemented duty hour limits in July 2003, the medical...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 43, November 2, 2010
There are six task areas of PBLI competence. These tasks are loosely tied together within this new...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 42, October 26, 2010
Many residency programs include various educational games in their teaching toolboxes. Researchers...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 42, October 26, 2010
Catheter-related bloodstream infections (CRBSI) are likely preventable if healthcare providers...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 41, October 19, 2010
Consider asking yourself the following questions when writing answers on the PIF about the...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 40, October 12, 2010
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) and the ACGME announced an increased focus on...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 39, September 28, 2010
For those of you with iPhones in the medical setting, a new app will streamline hand hygiene...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 37, September 14, 2010
With new resident supervision standards on the horizon, residency programs are looking for...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 36, September 7, 2010
The following five tips provide guidance on how to teach the interpersonal skills and communication...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 35, August 31, 2010
We know that interdisciplinary care is in patients' best interests. We also know it can be...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 32, August 2, 2010
When developing your curriculum, you will find more than adequate opportunity for not only...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 31, August 2, 2010
The urban legend of the “July effect” could be true, in which medical errors spike...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 31, August 2, 2010
Thirty nine percent of residents report that they are not adequately trained in discussing the...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 8, August 1, 2010
Although your new residents may currently be excited to take on any task, no matter how mundane...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 30, July 27, 2010
Many believe that organizational change is a prerequisite to improving professionalism education...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 29, July 20, 2010
Researchers at the University of Washington (UW) in Seattle implemented an electronic rounding and...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 28, July 13, 2010
The following tips will help faculty members provide better supervision and eliminate many of the...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Journal clubs are a tried-and-true method for teaching residents, and they are part of most...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
Although the amount of hours residents work is getting a lot of media attention, the ACGME has made...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 7, July 1, 2010
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Strategies for residents and attending physicians to enhance...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 26, June 29, 2010
There several teaching strategies medical educators can utilize to enhance medical knowledge. One...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 25, June 22, 2010
The ACGME requires programs to disseminate to the residents and faculty members a competency-based...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 23, June 8, 2010
We can divide the learning environment of a medical school or residency program into three distinct...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 22, June 1, 2010
Few resources exist to guide faculty members how to teach residents to give effective handoffs...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 22, June 1, 2010
Researchers from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Minnesota compared the...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Quality and patient safety are at the center of healthcare reform, regulatory requirements...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1: Interpersonal and Communication...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 21, May 25, 2010
There are six task areas of PBLI competence. They are the following.
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 18, May 4, 2010
A significant number of medical students have no knowledge of the core competencies prior to...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
The May issue of Residency Program Alert provides program directors and coordinators with...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
With graduation right around the corner, program directors and faculty members may reflect on a job...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 5, May 1, 2010
Feedback is at the heart of education. Learners don’t know what they’ve done right or...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 17, April 27, 2010
Every PIF asks for a description of the program's assessment system.
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 17, April 27, 2010
Your program's educational committee should meet regularly and assess the educational experience of...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 4, April 1, 2010
The April issue of Residency Program Alert provides program directors and coordinators with the...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 12, March 23, 2010
The psychology of miscommunication may be at the heart of why first-year residents’ handoffs...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
The March issue of Residency Program Alert provides program directors and coordinators with...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 8, February 23, 2010
Although residents see it as a time saver, copying and pasting information in electronic medical...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 6, February 9, 2010
Videoconferencing is a practical and effective way for residents and fellows in rural areas to...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
The February issue of RPA provides program directors and faculty with a framework for helping...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
If you took the time last month to make New Year’s resolutions, you know how difficult it is...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
Consult this guide to develop a comprehensive handoff curriculum.
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 1, January 1, 2010
The January issue of RPA provides 10 best practices for handoffs that program directors and faculty...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 47, December 8, 2009
There are several resources available online to provide guidance and training on cultural...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 12, December 1, 2009
The December issue gives program directors and GME leaders a step-by-step guide for developing a...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 11, November 1, 2009
The November issue gives GME leaders a step-by-step guide for building a robust faculty development...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 41, October 27, 2009
Assessing the effectiveness of your evaluation tools is a critical part of the education process.
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 40, October 20, 2009
Although residency programs have been the inspiration for several TV shows, there are few instances...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
Changing healthcare laws and increasing cultural, religious, and political diversity mean that...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 10, October 1, 2009
In the October issue, we look at different approaches for teaching residents about ethics, best...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 37, September 29, 2009
To many, the ACGME core competency practice-based learning and improvement (PBLI) sounds like a...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 33, September 1, 2009
The common program information form (PIF) asks for examples of quality activities in which...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 31, August 18, 2009
The ACGME’s six core competencies have become the heart of resident training. Consider a...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
Get the inside scoop about the milestones initiative
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 7, July 1, 2009
In this issue, we look at a new cost analysis that digs into the $1.6 billion the IOM estimates new...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 22, June 16, 2009
HCPro is proud to announce the publication of its latest residency resource, The Complete Residency...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 22, June 9, 2009
First-year residents and faculty members don’t see eye-to-eye when it comes to rating which...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 14, April 14, 2009
Duke University Medical School is one of the first to offer residents a training pathway focused on...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 14, April 14, 2009
The Association of American Medical Colleges recently released MedEdPORTAL 2.0, a Web site offering...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 13, April 7, 2009
When distributing 360-degree evaluations, keep the following points in mind:
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
RPA profiles how two programs teach this complicated competency by thinking outside the box.
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Take a look at how one institution conducts OSCEs with new residents.
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
In this issue, you will learn how to: develop an orientation OSCE so you know your new...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 12, March 31, 2009
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 10, March 17, 2009
A new study indicates there is no evidence that current measurement tools can reliably assess the...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 8, March 3, 2009
Residents and faculty members put a lot of effort and time into caring for patients, but the...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 3, March 1, 2009
Consider tying the NPSGs into these four activities typically utilized to teach the core...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 3, March 1, 2009
In this issue, get tips for ensuring the success of your chief residents, putting together a...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 7, February 24, 2009
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 6, February 10, 2009
The ACGME requires graduate medical education programs to teach and assess the concept of...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 5, February 3, 2009
Training faculty on how to be more humanistic teachers and consequently, more humane physicians...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 3, January 20, 2009
Educational sessions dedicated to reflection may help residents achieve rotation goals and...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 2, January 13, 2009
It is the time of year for programs to conduct the semi-annual performance review of residents and...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 32, December 2, 2008
The October and November issues of Residency Program Alert included articles explaining what...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 32, December 2, 2008
Although professionalism is difficult to define, residency programs should teach residents the...
