Journal of graduate medical education
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Podcasts and other digital resources are increasingly popular among medical learners and allow the dissemination of research to larger audiences. Little is known about the feasibility of graduate medical education trainees developing podcasts for their own and others' learning. ⋯ Medical podcasts created by Ob-Gyn residents during their training appear feasible and highly acceptable over a sustained period.
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Internal medicine residents face numerous career options after residency training. Little is known about when residents make their final career choice. ⋯ Early career choices before and during residency training may have low predictability toward final career choices upon graduation in internal medicine. These choices may continue to have low predictability beyond PGY-2 for many specialties. Early clinical exposure may not predict final career choice for subspecialties.
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Parenting issues can affect physicians' choice of specialty or subspecialty, as well as their selection of individual training programs, because of the distinctive challenges facing residents and fellows with children. Specific information about how residents perceive these challenges is limited. ⋯ This survey highlights trainees' perspectives about parenting during their clinical training, signaling parental leave, lactation facilities, and childcare access and affordability as particular challenges and potential targets for future interventions.
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Comparative Study
Entrustable Professional Activities: Correlation of Entrustment Assessments of Pediatric Residents With Concurrent Subcompetency Milestones Ratings.
In competency-based medical education, subcompetency milestones represent a theoretical stepwise description for a resident to move from the level of novice to expert. Despite their ubiquitous use in the assessment of residents, they were not designed for that purpose. Because entrustable professional activities (EPAs) require observable behaviors, they could serve as a potential link between clinical observation of residents and competency-based assessment. ⋯ This study demonstrates a strong association between assessment of EPAs and subcompetency milestones assessment, providing a link between entrustment decisions and assessment of competence. Our data support creating resident assessment tools where multiple subcompetencies can be mapped and assessed by a smaller set of rotation-specific EPAs.
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Randomized Controlled Trial
Why Not a Podcast? Assessing Narrative Audio and Written Curricula in Obstetrical Neurology.
Medical podcasts have the potential to educate residents and fellows in specialized or uncommon disciplines, but the acceptability and benefits of educational podcasts are unclear. ⋯ Written and podcast curricula improved immediate knowledge similarly, but the narrative-style podcasts were perceived as more enjoyable by residents and fellows from several specialties, suggesting narrative podcasting can be an engaging and feasible educational alternative for trainees to acquire information.