New research reported by Keith Rollag, an expert on leadership and organizations, in Harvard Business Review, suggests that in new situations, "the more questions new employees ask and the more help they seek, the better they perform” and that executives looking back on their first few months on [...]
Anders Ericsson, a psychologist and eminent scholar on the topic of expertise, has written extensively about how deliberate practice affects the daily work of medical professionals. Essentially, constant practice, coupled with a strong desire to improve, leads to expert-level performance. Physicians are not born experts — they develop [...]
At NEJM Knowledge+, we recognize that our questions and answers aren't — and shouldn't be — etched in stone and that our clinical audience is best served by questions that are updated regularly to reflect the evolution of medical knowledge. Unlike most other online resources for board preparation, [...]
The way that physicians see themselves and their own practice patterns is of critical importance. They want to know if their medical knowledge is up-to-date and “how they perform.” The holy grail is assessment that provides results and feedback such that education is enhanced and supported; assessment is [...]
It is exciting to see this landmark study about resident duty hours in the New England Journal of Medicine. The FIRST Trial studied the impact of altering duty hours in surgical trainees on patient care outcomes and resident satisfaction. Researchers from Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, the [...]
Editor’s Note: This post about PA education was previously published in In Practice, which is hosted by the New England Journal of Medicine and NEJM Journal Watch. Bianca Belcher, MPH, PA-C practices neurosurgery in Boston, MA.In 2010, there were 146 accredited physician assistant (PA) programs in the United [...]