In July 2016, new enhancements to the ABIM FasTrack system for recording residents’ competency ratings, which help to determine eligibility for ABIM’s board certification exam, will go live. The ABIM FasTrack system was created at the request of the GME community, and this is the third year that [...]
Residency isn’t easy. But it doesn’t have to be quite so hard with NEJM Resident 360. Designed specifically for residents, the latest initiative from NEJM Group gives residents the foundational information, resources, and support they need to approach their rotations — and life as a resident — with [...]
In 1999, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) selected and endorsed a set of competencies to help define the foundational skills every practicing physician should possess. These six ACGME Core Competencies, as they are called, were developed as a way to shape and evaluate the education [...]
Editor’s Note: This post was previously published in Insights on Residency Training, which is hosted by the New England Journal of Medicine and NEJM Journal Watch. Ahmad Yousaf, MD, is the 2015-16 Ambulatory Chief Resident in Internal Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School. What is [...]
Recent research by Yale researchers Matthew Fisher, Mariel Goddu, and Frank Keil, posits that people think they know more than they actually do when they they have access to the internet. In their paper, published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology, the researchers conducted a study in which [...]
Editor’s Note: This post 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. I love practicing medicine. As a student, I devoured chapter after chapter of [...]