A 1-day bedside ultrasound workshop was developed as one component of a comprehensive 5-day intern "boot-camp" designed to improve interns' cognitive, affective and psychomotor skills using active learning techniques including simulation, standardized patients and communication workshops.
This approach clearly has promise for improving intern preparedness, but implementing it in larger health systems, where four-year, graduate-entry medical degrees are the norm, poses very real practical difficulties.
"When they're done right, media internships can bridge the gap between uni and employment and improve job prospects," says intern campaigner Libby Page.
Based on the results of these studies, it seems that the ACGME resident work hour restrictions are warranted, at least for interns, and that efforts to reduce the number of hours worked by interns may improve patient care.
It found its proudest voice in an English professor who proclaimed that reading Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Illyich had inspired her class of interns to improve their bedside manner.
Although we would agree that efforts to reduce the number of hours worked by interns may improve patient care, our traditional schedule was in fact compliant with the ACGME duty-hour standards.
This paper provides additional suggestions for designing an off-campus internship curriculum and improving off-campus intern guidance.
They observed an increase in mesoporosity which intern improves separation of protein with high molecular weight and decrease column backpressure (Li, Tolley, and Lee, 2010).
The bank recently announced it was hiring 40 per cent more interns this summer, to improve the work-life balance of its youngest charges, and says it has appointed managers to monitor workloads.
The supervisors however felt that interns needed to improve their physical examination skills particularly pelvic examination.
