Colin P West

..Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is increasingly taught in medical schools, but few curricula have been evaluated using validated instruments...

..These tips may help busy clinicians better interpret the increasingly overwhelming amount of medical literature they are faced with in their daily practices...

..To evaluate the effect of resident physicians' distress on their personal safety...

..Differences in general internal medicine (GIM) career plans between internal medicine residency program types and across resident demographics are not well understood...

..The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) is the gold standard for burnout assessment, but the length of this well-validated 22-item instrument can limit its feasibility for survey research...

..The purpose of the present study was to systematically review the effect of cyclophosphamide treatment on pulmonary function in patients with systemic sclerosis and interstitial lung disease...

..Little is known about factors contributing to the career decisions of internal medicine residents...

..Fatigue and distress have been separately shown to be associated with medical errors. The contribution of each factor when assessed simultaneously is unknown...

..However, the length of the MBI can limit its utility in physician surveys...

..We evaluated the association of resident well-being with medical knowledge as assessed on both a standardised test of general medical knowledge and at the end of web-based courses on a series of focused topics...

..Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is an important element of medical education. However, limited information is available on effective curricula...

..Physician distress is common and has been associated with negative effects on patient care. However, factors associated with resident distress and well-being have not been well described at a national level...

..Little is known about the timing and stability of internal medicine resident career decisions during the course of residency training...

..To explore residents' competency in medical knowledge and in empathy, one element of professionalism, and to evaluate the relationship between competencies in these domains...

..Morning report is an important conference for medical education, but direct comparisons of approaches to morning report have only rarely been reported...

..Medical errors are associated with feelings of distress in physicians, but little is known about the magnitude and direction of these associations...

..To assess clinician attitudes toward biostatistics at an academic medical center...

..An understanding of the factors contributing to professionalism may allow the development of more effective approaches to promoting this quality in medical education...

..While not restricted to the one-sample case, the proposed methodology is illustrated for one-sample data and compared to the common complete-case and available-case analysis methods...

..Teaching effectiveness is an important criterion for promoting clinician-educators. However, the relationship between residents' psychological characteristics and their assessments of faculty physicians is unknown...

..Internal medicine ambulatory training redesign, including recommendations to increase ambulatory training, is a focus of national discussion. Residents' and program directors' perceptions about ambulatory training models are unknown...

..However, these assessments may be influenced by residents' mental health. The relationship between residents' well-being and empathy and assessments of their global performance remains unclear...

..To describe internal medicine residents' opinions regarding the optimal duration of internal medicine residency training, and to assess whether these opinions are associated with specific career interests...

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..We hypothesized that physicians who spent more of their time in the aspect of work that they found most meaningful would have a lower risk of burnout...

..Physicians often enter the workplace with substantial debt. The relationship between debt and reported career plans among internal medicine residents is unknown...

..Resident physicians are expected to demonstrate medical knowledge. However, little is known about the residents' reading habits and learning preferences...

..We used validated methods to explore associations between resident doctors' reflections on QI opportunities and the quality of their QI project proposals...

..To evaluate physician relationships from the perspective of their spouses/partners...

..Unprofessional behaviors in medical school predict high stakes consequences for practicing physicians, yet little is known about specific behaviors associated with professionalism during residency...

..Despite extensive data about physician burnout, to our knowledge, no national study has evaluated rates of burnout among US physicians, explored differences by specialty, or compared physicians with US workers in other fields...

..The accuracy of intraoperative periprosthetic frozen section histologic evaluation in predicting a diagnosis of periprosthetic joint infection prior to microbiologic culture results is unknown...

..Deliberately weighing the available options will facilitate informed choices during the design of research that, in turn, informs the art and science of medical education...

..Feedback is essential for improving the skills of continuing medical education (CME) presenters. However, there has been little research on improving the quality of feedback to CME presenters...

..We aimed to examine relationships between electronic medical knowledge resource use, practice characteristics and examination scores among physicians recertifying in internal medicine...

..These principles can be used to measure and align policies. It is hoped they will serve as a model that can be used by other health care organizations...

..In addition to the seven key steps, the authors provide, information on electronic tools to facilitate the review process, practical tips to facilitate the reporting process and an annotated bibliography...

..Current asthma guidelines suggest that patients and their providers consider decreasing or stopping controller medications when asthma is stable...

..56 (95% confidence interval,-0.01-1.14; P = 0.06). Dietary counseling does not appear to improve QOL significantly in patients with cancer. However,an observed trend toward benefit underscores the need for further study...

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..Identification of these variables may provide utility in identifying those at high-risk of subsequent mortality after resuscitation...

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