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  • Tip of the week: Getting involved is getting prepared

    Internal reviews require a dedication to organization. No matter how organized an individual or program may be, keeping up with internal review best practices should not be limited to prior routine.

    Program directors and program coordinators should participate as members of internal review committees for other programs.

  • News and briefs: Teaching hospitals receive $2 million in Medicare overpayments

    Fifty teaching hospitals in Mid-Atlantic states such as Pennsylvania, Delaware, and Maryland received $1.9 million in Medicare overpayments during FY2006 and FY2007, according to a recent report from the Office of the Inspector General (OIG).

  • News and briefs: Bob Barker urges university to stop using cats to train medical students

    Game show icon Bob Barker is asking the University of Virginia to stop the practice of using cats to teach the proper way to insert breathing tubes into patients. The practice seeks to teach medical students on the proper method of inserting the tubes into premature newborns.

  • Tip of the week: Chart stimulated recall improves medical knowledge

    Residents are given a number of different exams to increase their medical knowledge – one of the necessary ACGME core competencies. Mix up the exam from time to time using the chart stimulated recall (CSR) model.

  • Featured blog post: Consider me PGY1: An introduction to the new residency editor

    It was a week before Christmas and my family and friends gathered for our annual December yuletide day o’ fun at my parents’ home. As everyone mingled and caught up with each other, I was subject to the same inquisition over a glass of egg nog:

    So, Josh, what do you do again?

    Good question.

    The HCPro residency blog is back. To read more of this blog post and more, click here.

     

  • News and briefs: Senators call for GME funding review

    Seven U.S. senators urged the Institute of Medicine (IOM) to conduct an independent review of GME funding and governance.

    In a December 21 letter written to IOM President Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, the senators stated the current GME system is “under increasing stress” and projects to a future in healthcare with many concerns.