For countries with nascent emergency care systems, Singapore could offer a useful model for EM workforce studies, residency training curriculum, and ED benchmarking and comparisons.
The authors also report that in the year prior to their study, psychiatry residency slots remained empty, with only 84percentt of available positions filled.
A study of residency-affiliated EDs in 2000 found low rates of adoption, with only 7% reporting fully implemented technology for medication error checking, 18% for computerized medication order entry, and 21% for clinical documentation.
While there have been several studies of residency EBM curricula [ 4, 9- 11], none, to our knowledge, has operated in the framework of an intern block rotation.
At the time of our study, the pediatric residency program at CNMC consisted of 89 residents: 26 were first year, 29 were second year, and 34 were third year.
The 7 sections of the survey collected basic demographic data (age, gender, year of training, country of medical school, medical school graduation year and history of prior formal clinical training); information pertaining to fellowship choices, resident study patterns and post-residency practice plans.
KH and PH participated in the study while in residency training at Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and are now practicing ophthalmologists.
The distribution of the study subjects by residency year and the mean performance rating scores per year are shown in Table 1.
The absence of clear trends in EROD activity may be attributable to factors not measured in this study or variable residency time of A. australis in contaminated areas.
In order to determine rockfish homing ability and further assess site fidelity, a homing experiment was conducted within the broader residency study.
