An Overview of the Special Operations Interactive Medical Training Program (SOIMTP).

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lawrence A. Hermansen ◽  
Hoa L. Ly
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Special Operations

scholarly journals Building Bridges: Qualitative Assessment of a Clinical Faculty Exchange Between a Naturopathic and an Allopathic Medical Training Program

EXPLORE ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 7 (4) ◽  
pp. 249-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachelle L. McCarty ◽  
Robin Fenn ◽  
Barak Gaster ◽  
Wendy Weber ◽  
Jane Guiltinan
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Clinical Faculty ◽  
Faculty Exchange

scholarly journals Canadian Hematology Mentorship and Career Counseling Resident Survey (2015-2017)

Blood ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 132 (Supplement 1) ◽  
pp. 5809-5809
Author(s):  
Pauline Manuel ◽  
Jessica Petrucci ◽  
Martina Trinkaus
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Career Counseling ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Career Planning ◽  
Graduate Training ◽  
Mentoring Programs ◽  
Subspecialty Training ◽  
Post Graduate ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
Level Of Training

Abstract Introduction Residency is a stressful, overwhelming period during which medical trainees work long hours, experience intense work demands, and often have significant anxiety around the future of their career. Those who support residents through their training play a pivotal and formative role in residents' professional development. These individuals may be described as advisors, teachers, or, simply, mentors. Studies demonstrate that formal mentorship during medical training fosters career progression and decision making, academic productivity, stress reduction, and can enhance clinical skills. Despite this, many residents across various subspecialties report inherent deficiencies in mentoring programs. These include residents in internal medicine, ophthalmology, pediatric primary care, and radiation oncology. No study has investigated hematology resident perspectives on mentorship and career planning. We conducted a needs assessment survey to identify deficiencies in current Canadian hematology residency mentoring programs. Consistent with resident perspectives in other subspecialty training programs, we predict that there is a paucity of effective mentorship in hematology residency curriculums that warrants consideration. Methods This research received an exemption from the University of Toronto Research Ethics Committee. All Canadian PGY4, PGY5, and PGY6 residents enrolled in a Royal College of Canada Hematology Training Program were invited to complete an online survey on training experience at the end of their training program in 2015, 2016, and 2017. The survey was hosted on SurveyMonkey. Content domains explored in the survey included academic influences, career goals and aspirations, and resident perceptions on career planning and mentorship. Participation in this research was voluntary and survey responses were collected anonymously. Comparisons were made in study responses based on categorization by age, gender, and level of training. Results Overall, 156 hematology residents responded to the survey (65% response rate). The gender distribution was 45% (N=70) male and 54% (N=84) female. Forty-three percent (N=66) of respondents were 25-29 years of age, 50% (N=78) were 30-34, and 7% (N=11) were 35 years of age or older. Of all survey respondents, 30% (N=46) were in their fourth year of post-graduate medical training, 39% (N=60) were in their fifth year, and 31% (N=47) of respondents were in their sixth year of post-graduate training or higher. Specific to career planning and mentorship (Table 1), 37% (N=56) of respondents reported that career planning was never a part of their training curriculum. Only 30 individuals (20%) reported having an assigned mentor for career planning. 64% (N=96) of residents reported that they had to seek out their own mentorship for career planning and only 61% (N=92) of trainees indicated that they felt they received meaningful advice on career planning from their mentors. No notable statistically significant difference in study responses were found when comparing by age and level of training. When analyzing the influence of mentorship on pursuing further training following residency, women were found to be more concerned on the influence of mentorship than men (2015: median, 3.0 vs. 4.0, P = 0.0049). Location of employment (2015: median, 4.0 vs. 5.0, P = 0.0407; 2016: median, 4.0 vs. 5.0, P = 0.0132) and perceived lack of academic positions (2015: median, 3.0 vs. 5.0, P = 0.0235; 2016: median, 3.0 vs. 4.0, P = 0.0042) also impacted the pursuit of additional graduate training or clinical fellowships. In this regard, the gender associated statistical significance reflected that women are greater influenced than men. Conclusions Results of this preliminary survey confirm that a significant portion of Canadian hematology trainees do not have sufficient career planning and mentorship during their training. This heralds the need for improvement to current Canadian hematology residency curricula as mentorship is instrumental in making sound decisions for advanced training and career exploration at an early stage. Future surveys are planned to clarify additional factors and interventions that may improve mentorship and career counseling for Canadian hematology trainees that can be extrapolated to all programs internationally. Disclosures No relevant conflicts of interest to declare.

Development of a Pre-Selection Physical Fitness Training Program for the Canadian Special Operations Force (SOF)

2004 ◽  
Vol 36 (Supplement) ◽  
pp. S246
Author(s):  
Sue Jaenen ◽  
Howie Wenger ◽  
Wayne Lee ◽  
Denis Couturier ◽  
Art Salmon
Keyword(s):  
Physical Fitness ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Special Operations ◽  
Fitness Training

scholarly journals Training in neurology: Flexibility and adaptability of a neurology training program at the epicenter of COVID-19

Neurology ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 94 (24) ◽  
pp. e2608-e2614 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shashank Agarwal ◽  
Sakinah Sabadia ◽  
Nada Abou-Fayssal ◽  
Arielle Kurzweil ◽  
Laura J. Balcer ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Training Program ◽  
Structural Changes ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Residency Training Program ◽  
The United States ◽  
Outpatient Services ◽  
Continuity Clinic ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Medical Crisis

ObjectiveTo outline changes made to a neurology residency program in response to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19).MethodsIn early March 2020, the first cases of COVID-19 were announced in the United States. New York City quickly became the epicenter of a global pandemic, and our training program needed to rapidly adapt to the increasing number of inpatient cases while being mindful of protecting providers and continuing education. Many of these changes unfolded over days, including removing residents from outpatient services, minimizing the number of residents on inpatient services, deploying residents to medicine services and medical intensive care units, converting continuity clinic patient visits to virtual options, transforming didactics to online platforms only, and maintaining connectedness in an era of social distancing. We have been able to accomplish this through daily virtual meetings among leadership, faculty, and residents.ResultsOver time, our program has successfully rolled out initiatives to service the growing number of COVID-related inpatients while maintaining neurologic care for those in need and continuing our neurologic education curriculum.ConclusionIt has been necessary and feasible for our residency training program to undergo rapid structural changes to adapt to a medical crisis. The key ingredients in doing this successfully have been flexibility and teamwork. We suspect that many of the implemented changes will persist long after the COVID-19 crisis has passed and will change the approach to neurologic and medical training.

scholarly journals Learner perception of oral and written examinations in an international medical training program

2010 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-26 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sean P. Kelly ◽  
Scott G. Weiner ◽  
Philip D. Anderson ◽  
Julie Irish ◽  
Greg Ciottone ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
International Medical ◽  
Learner Perception

scholarly journals DOES RESTRUCTURING THE RESEARCH CURRICULUM OF ORTHOPEDIC TRAINING PROGRAM AFFECT THE RESEARCH PERFORMANCE? EVIDENCE FROM QATAR

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (01) ◽  
pp. 950-956
Author(s):  
Ghalib Ahmed Alhaneedi ◽  
◽  
Abduljabbar Alhammoud ◽  
Shamsi Hameed ◽  
Mohammad Al Ateeq Al Dosari ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Training Program ◽  
Postgraduate Training ◽  
Medical Training ◽  
Case Reports ◽  
Research Performance ◽  
Impact Factors ◽  
Scientific Article ◽  
Level Of Evidence ◽  
Academic Degree ◽  
Postgraduate Training Program

Background: The participation of trainees and faculties in the research is an integral part of postgraduate medical training and education. The educational curriculum of the training program should be structured to support the learning of the trainees scholarly activities, address research barriers, foster a culture of inquiry, and improve their research performance. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education International (ACGME-I) standards include participation in scholarly activities by residents and faculties as an essential requirement of the training program.The possible effects of research-based curriculum after accreditation of postgraduate training program on the research performance was examined in a longitudinal study of the orthopedic training program. Methods: Web-based systematic review for all publicationsfrom our orthopedic training program and only pubmed index publications of other institutional programs before (2009-2013) and after (2014-2018) accreditation was conducted. Data for the type of publications, journal name, impact factors, dates published, orthopedic specialty, level of evidence,and the role of residents and faculties in the authorship were collected.The research academic degree of residents, number of residents applied and matched for a fellowship in North America and/or UK were collected from a residents portfolio. Results: The orthopedics training program published a total of 50 articles between 2009 and 2018, which represented 2% of all other institutional programs publications. There was a significant improvement in the number of publications from three (6%) to 47(94%) articles before and after accreditation, respectively. There were 19(38%) original researches, 17(34%) review articles, 13(26%) case reports, and one letter to the editor. International Orthopedics was the most commonly used journal with ten publications (25%). Most of the publications were in orthopedic trauma with 18 articles (36%), 10(20%) pediatric orthopedics, 7 (14%) foot and ankle and 7(14%) spine articles. The residents were the first author in 50% of publications, and at least one-third were published during their training. Conclusion: This study showed that the development of the structured research based educational curriculumof the residency training program after accreditation helped in enhancing the research performance and publications in our postgraduate training program. Restructuring of the research-based curriculum after accreditation of the program appears to increase the trainees and faculties chances of being an author or co-author of a scientific article.

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