Family medicine
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There are multiple procedural skills common to all residency programs. This study had two main objectives: (1) Use an interdisciplinary team to develop a procedural competency checklist for adult endotracheal intubation that could be shared across specialty programs and levels of training and (2) Evaluate the validity and reliability of the checklist. ⋯ Procedural skills common to multiple specialty residency programs can be taught and evaluated across residency programs when a standardized training program and checklist is used. Resources could be maximized by offering training and evaluation sessions across resident specialty programs that are cooperatively staffed by evaluators of different levels of training and specialty backgrounds.
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Despite increasing numbers of women attending medical school and completing residencies, women continue to lag behind men in academic achievement. Other specialties have found that women publish fewer journal articles than men. While family medicine is becoming increasingly gender balanced, the aim of this study was to evaluate the gender balance of published material within family medicine journals. ⋯ Female authors wrote about a third of all original publications in family medicine journals between 2006-2009 even though they comprise 44% of the faculty. Further research can evaluate reasons for this gender disparity.