Articles: emergency-medicine.
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A nonconcurrent prospective cohort study was conducted to evaluate if National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) rank developed using multivariate regression followed by consensus group activity is associated with perceived general performance during emergency medicine residency. All residents graduating from a university hospital-based residency program between 1990 to 1993 were ranked by university faculty, private attendings, charge nurses, and a clerk. Each evaluator was asked to order (from the strongest to the weakest) a deck of cards that contained only each graduate's name and picture. ⋯ There was moderately strong agreement among evaluators about the relative strength of the 20 residents (W = 0.67, P < .001). The association of perceived rank with NRMP rank was much greater than that expected by chance (r(s) = .35, P < .0001). Applicants with better NRMP ranks were perceived as stronger residents, which supports the strategy of using formal statistical modelling followed by consensus group activity as a method of generating NRMP rank lists.
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To assess the prevalence of misrepresented citations among emergency medicine residency applicants and to determine whether misrepresentation increases as the number of citations increases. ⋯ Emergency medicine residency applications may contain misrepresented citations. The number of misrepresentations in this study increased as the number of citations increased.
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There are opportunities for research in EM at the NIH, which may be appropriate for a variety of Institutes, depending on the topic area. Most NIH-funded research is through investigator-initiated grant applications, and the PHS 398 application packet is a source of more information. ⋯ The NIH Guide to Grants and Contracts announces RFAs, RFPs, and PAs. It is important to become expert in a field of research to be successful in achieving research funding, whether investigator- or institute-initiated.