Limiting On-Call Hours Improves Resident-Physicians’ Neurobehavioral Performance
1. A large, multicenter clinical trial found that resident-physicians who worked ≤ 16 consecutive hours for a majority of their ...
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Internal medicine interns spending minority of time on direct inpatient care
1. In this direct observational study, first year internal medicine residents (interns) spent only 13% of their time on direct ...
Study finds that pediatric residents rarely perform neonatal intubation
1. Advance practitioners and neonatal fellows had the highest rates of neonatal tracheal intubation (TI) attempts in the neonatal intensive ...
Needlestick injuries most common in first six months of residency
1. Dental, obstetric and gynecology and surgical residents were more likely to incur needlestick injuries. 2. First-year residents in the ...
Intensity of medical residency may affect future practice style
1. The health care utilization of the region (high-intensity or low-intensity) in which internal medicine residents train may predict how ...
Surgeons may be unaware of own level of burnout
Image: PD 1. Surgeons were not able to reliably predict their individual level of burnout compared to other physicians. 2. ...
Decreased trainee autonomy suggested with in-hospital intensivist coverage
Image: PD 1. Pediatric trainees and intensivists report less autonomy and readiness for independent practice when training in an in-hospital ...
2 Minute Medicine Rewind – December 2 – 8th, 2013
Image: PD In this section, we will highlight the key high-impact studies, updates, and analyses published in medicine during the ...
Saccadic eye movements predictive of surgical resident fatigue
Image: PD 1. Saccadic peak velocity magnitude during guided saccade tasks decreased with increased time-on-duty (mean precall = 0.634, mean ...
Study suggests general surgery residency graduates unprepared for fellowship
Image: PD 1. A survey of surgical subspecialty program directors found that 21% of program directors (PDs) felt that new ...
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