Journal of medical education
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Practitioners, educators, and residents in anesthesiology are concerned about issues of reliable evaluation, as advocated by such groups as the American Board of Anesthesiology and the Society for Education in Anesthesia. Further, there is a growing demand by accrediting bodies that training programs demonstrate a consistent and equitable means of evaluating residents' performance. In this article, the authors describe the development of the evaluation system employed by the Baylor College of Medicine and its affiliated hospitals to assess the clinical progress of residents in anesthesiology. The system evaluates the residents' progress in terms of levels of performance that are based on case complexity and degree of staff intervention.
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The nursing home has become a focus for education as well as patient care. A format was devised for nursing home rounds that provides for discussion among staff members and specialists and is aimed at teaching and the resolution of specific patient-care and administrative issues. ⋯ As is apparent from the records of these rounds, many complex medical problems were handled without transferring the patients to an acute-care facility. The discussion among participants of specific clinical problems at nursing home rounds has proven invaluable as a tool for education and delivery of patient care.
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In the study reported here, the authors examined the influence of clinical experiences of students on their choice of family medicine as a specialty. Attitudes toward family medicine were investigated among 172 first-year and 174 second-year students at the University of Minnesota Medical School--Minneapolis. Neither early exposure to role models in family medicine nor the order in which specialty clerkships were taken had a significant effect on the students' choice of family medicine as a specialty.