Residency Articles by Topic: Resident Well-Being
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 15, April 12, 2013
“This was a first look to assess whether the residents’ duty hour changes resulted in...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 15, April 12, 2013
Reducing residents’ work hours was supposed to reduce errors, but recent research challenges...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 12, March 21, 2013
Educating your residents on proper and effective communication skills requires faculty members that...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 52, December 27, 2012
Mitigating sleepiness and fatigue in residents has long been the focus of efforts to improve...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 52, December 27, 2012
Planning social activities for residents or improving your program or materials on a shoestring is...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 41, November 6, 2012
Since duty hour restrictions for residents went into place, orthopedic surgeons in training at...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 39, October 23, 2012
It is common practice to have chief residents sit on house staff committees and interdepartmental...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 37, October 2, 2012
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 36, September 25, 2012
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 36, September 25, 2012
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 35, September 18, 2012
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 32, August 28, 2012
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 27, July 24, 2012
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 27, July 24, 2012
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 26, July 17, 2012
A wife of an internist at Lenox Hill Hospital in Manhattan is launching a pilot yoga program...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 23, June 26, 2012
A 2010 survey of 150 residents shows that many worked through flulike symptoms during training in...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 22, June 19, 2012
Approximately half of residents (48.4%) surveyed in a recent study say they do not approve of the...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 22, June 19, 2012
Residents at the Duke University School of Medicine are using their new video-making skills to...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 17, May 1, 2012
When a resident leaves a program where he or she was put on probation for some length of time, it...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 15, April 17, 2012
Although duty-hour standards recently changed, the concern over resident fatigue should not...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 13, April 3, 2012
Joseph Kubacki, MD, was recently sentenced to 87 months in prison on 150 counts that include...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 13, April 3, 2012
Pressure to fabricate duty hours exists. There are plenty of positive and negative reasons your...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 12, March 27, 2012
Residents at Peninsula Hospital Center in Queens, NY are encouraging the American Osteopathic...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 11, March 20, 2012
A 2010-2011 study shows that providing an iPad to residents increased efficiency, decreased delays...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 5, February 7, 2012
Approximately 68% of surveyed residents indicated a “significant decline” in...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 4, January 31, 2012
Game show icon Bob Barker is asking the University of Virginia to stop the practice of using cats...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 3, January 24, 2012
According to an article in the Cleveland Plain Dealer, residents, fellows, and the hospitals they...
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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 2, January 17, 2012
Will it be three or four years? A new ACGME pilot program will determine the appropriate length for...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 51, December 30, 2011
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 51, December 30, 2011
A University of Vermont College of Medicine study shows an increased complications rate in...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 49, December 20, 2011
The Joint Commission (TJC) spoke out last week against extended work hours for physicians. The...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 47, December 6, 2011
More than 70% of neurosurgery residents responding to a survey about resident work hour...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 47, December 6, 2011
A recent ACGME survey found that residents are using their smartphones in clinical practice...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 46, November 29, 2011
Help residents take a meta-perspective by asking them to consider alternative points of view of...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 45, November 22, 2011
At the 6th Annual Residency Program Management Workshop, Franklin Medio, PhD, educational...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 45, November 22, 2011
Determine how long residents need to spend on a rotation to complete the procedural requirements...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 44, November 15, 2011
For the second time in 10 years, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) rejected...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 43, November 8, 2011
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 42, November 1, 2011
Educational enhancement is a focused event designed to improve a resident’s activity in a...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 39, October 11, 2011
Since the ACGME set limits on residents’ work hours in 2003, trainees perform about 520...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 38, October 4, 2011
The hidden curriculum presents a significant challenge to medical education. Our learners learn...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 37, September 20, 2011
Consumer groups and government agencies are focusing on patient safety, and more...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 25, June 28, 2011
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 21, May 31, 2011
As more residents embrace clinical work and parenthood, it's important to educate yourself and...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 17, May 3, 2011
Accepting transfer residents can present several challenges for residency programs, including...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 1, January 4, 2011
Prominent sleep researchers say that institutions should have policies in place to prevent fatigued...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 38, September 28, 2010
Residency is stressful, but many training programs have yet to develop support to help residents...
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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 35, August 31, 2010
Well-rested residents may not be better surgeons than less-rested counterparts, a new study in the...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 33, August 16, 2010
Medical interns made the list of the Christian Science Monitor’s list of the top five...
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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 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 Insider, Issue 24, June 15, 2010
The high levels of stress first-year residents face may increase symptoms of depression, according...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 6, June 1, 2010
Program coordinators are compliance managers. It’s up to you to ensure that residents...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 21, May 25, 2010
The process and decision to terminate a resident for academic reasons weighs heavily on most...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 20, May 12, 2010
Nominate a coordinator colleague or yourself for our new award celebrating the professionalism of...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 3, March 1, 2010
Although managing all new resident documentation is important, none requires coordinators&rsquo...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 2, February 1, 2010
Making the tough decision about termination is key to staying out of legal trouble.
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 2, January 12, 2010
Medical residents often fail to report needlestick incidents, which can put them at risk for...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 49, December 22, 2009
The program coordinator has two functions in the educational development process: (1) act as an...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 38, October 6, 2009
A new study confirms that fatigue and distress are associated with residents’ self-reported...
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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 35, September 15, 2009
Health officials are already warning that this winter’s flu season will be severe largely due...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
This issue takes an indepth look at the issue of resident burnout. Learn what causes it and how...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 9, September 1, 2009
Residents don’t start their training thinking it’s going to be a cakewalk. They expect...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 31, August 18, 2009
If a resident’s actions do not improve through remediation, or in extremely egregious...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 27, July 21, 2009
Forty-one percent of recently surveyed surgical residents report that work hour restrictions are a...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 24, June 30, 2009
As you watch eager new residents start their training, I know it’s hard to think about...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 23, June 23, 2009
Practicing physicians work a similar number of hours as allowed under the ACGME’s duty hour...
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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
A survey of first-year residents at the University of California, San Francisco, indicates that...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 21, June 2, 2009
Program directors, faculty, and coordinators must determine whether disruptive behavior is due to a...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
In this issue, get tips for conducting successful interviews, redesigning resident work hours to...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
To be effective, program directors and other exit interviewers must remember that exit interviews...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 5, May 1, 2009
RPA sat down with two program directors who have spent the past several years scrutinizing and...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 4, April 1, 2009
Get 10 tips to make your orientation a success.
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 12, March 31, 2009
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 11, March 24, 2009
Most program coordinators think of orientation as the process of introducing incoming residents to...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 10, March 17, 2009
Graduate medical education leaders at Loma Linda University (CA) used data collected from annual...
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Residency Program Alert, Issue 3, March 1, 2009
Whether you’re creating a first-year resident manual for the first time or performing a...
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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 5, February 3, 2009
Decreasing residents’ work hours to 48 hours per week does not compromise patient safety...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 4, January 27, 2009
With Match Day just a month away, it is time for program coordinators and directors to think about...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 3, January 20, 2009
It’s common for professionals in any field to listen to music while they’re working...
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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 33, December 9, 2008
The ACGME created a new Office of Resident Services, which provides residents, fellows, and faculty...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 33, December 9, 2008
Last week, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) released a report calling for several changes to the...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 30, November 18, 2008
Between the country’s financial crisis and the possibility of a recession, your graduating...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 25, October 14, 2008
Last year, one of our former residents committed suicide. Once the shock, sadness, and...
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Residency Program Insider, Issue 24, October 7, 2008
I spoke at a coordinator retreat at the University of Connecticut a couple weeks ago and got into a...
