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In high-tech world, low-cost simulation can advance resident training

Simulation exercises can help strengthen a medical resident’s skill acquisition and competency assessment. Certain exercises can be costly to implement. An article in the Journal of Graduate Medical Education recommends cost-effective ways to simulate clinical events in training.

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Residents devise a better way to learn on night float rotations

Duty hour restrictions have sparked significant changes in residency training, prompting programs to increase nontraditional staffing methods through night float rotations. A group of residents took their training into their own hands by developing a resident-led night float curriculum to bolster their most-needed clinical skills and improve patient care.

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Improving verbal sign-outs: One simple method you need

As a resident, your ability to safely care for patients often depends on how well you capture and communicate information about them to colleagues at sign-out. Conduct highly effective verbal sign-outs by remembering this acronym.

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Tired of miserable schedules? One residency program's solution

Medical residents’ clinical schedules don’t have to be as stressful as they tend to be. At least, that’s what one residency program found a solution to address many of the common problems surrounding miserable residency scheduling.

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Residents: How would you transform GME?

Now that the consortium of schools in the AMA Accelerating Change in Medical Education initiative are making transformative improvements to undergraduate medical education (UME), it’s time to move onto graduate medical education (GME)—and input from residents is crucial to the process.

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Hot topics that could affect how residents practice medicine

More than 500 physicians, residents and medical students will meet this week in Dallas to weigh new AMA policy that will affect both the medical profession and the patients they serve.

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Residents discuss determining the “one best test”

An estimated one-third of health care costs—about $750 billion—don’t actually improve health, according to the Institute of Medicine. Residents’ exams often ask them to choose the “one best test” for diagnosis to avoid health care waste, but what if the real-world choice is “all of the above”?

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