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 [...]
In 2014, newly certified PAs and practicing PAs who had completed their 6-year certification maintenance cycles began transitioning to the new certification maintenance cycles established by the National Commission on the Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA). Under this process, PA certification maintenance takes place over a 10-year period [...]
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 [...]
Medical residents face enormous stress and pressure. From providing patient care during their long hours on duty to high-stakes exams and evaluations, physicians in training have to be resilient to withstand the weight on their shoulders — and come out the other side stronger, smarter, and wiser practitioners. [...]
As with most medical specialties, there has been controversy over the past decade regarding changes to the maintenance of certification process for board-certified family medicine physicians (MC-FP) and, in particular, changes to the American Board of Family Medicine’s high-stakes board exam process. Beginning in 2006, the ABFM: Computerized [...]
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 [...]