Browsing by Subject "residency"

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    Best Practices From the APDR
    (Elsevier, 2018-06) Goldman, Daryl T.; Peters, Gail L.; Fischman, Aaron M.; Vatakencherry, George G.; Bream, Peter R., Jr.; Martin, Jonathan G.; Newsome, Janice M.; Bercu, Zachary L.; Schacht, Michael A.; Johnson, Karen S.; Milburn, James M.; Ong, Seng; Kalia, Vivek; England, Eric; Heitkamp, Darel E.; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine
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    Impact of an Online Question Bank on Resident In-Training Exam Performance
    (Sage, 2023-10-09) Scott, Nicole P.; Martin, Terrell W.; Schmidt, Alison M.; Shanks, Anthony L.; Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine
    OBJECTIVE In-training exams (ITEs) are administered annually to Obstetrics and Gynecology (OBGYN) residents and have been demonstrated to correlate with success on licensing examinations. Our study objective was to determine the impact of a question bank and mock exam on the performance of Council on Resident Education in Obstetrics and Gynecology (CREOG) ITEs. Secondarily, we investigated the correlation between the extent of question bank usage and performance on the exam. METHODS Pre–post intervention study of resident performance on CREOG ITE before and after implementation of the question bank and mock ITE at Indiana University in 2018. Performance was measured as year-to-year improvement in percent correct on ITE exams. Scores were excluded if a resident did not have a prequestion bank score report or if they did not sit for all eligible ITE exams. RESULTS There were 51 OBGYN residents at Indiana University during the study period, with 38 available for analysis (75%). Before implementation, average year-to-year improvement for PGY1-2, PGY2-3 and PGY3-4 classes were 0.60%, 1.0% and −1.6%, respectively. After implementation, all resident classes had significant improvements in ITE scores of 6.6% (P < .01), 9.0% (P < .01), and 7.2% (P < .01), respectively. There was a moderate program-wide correlation between the number of questions completed and the percent improvement on the ITE of R = 0.36 (P = .046). CONCLUSIONS Our study demonstrated that access to a question bank and mock ITE significantly improved CREOG ITE performance of OBGYN residents at Indiana University.
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    Practical Wisdom and the Program Coordinator
    (Elsevier, 2019-09) Gunderman, Richard B.; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine
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    Training Indiana's Family Medicine Residents to Address the Problem of Prescription Drug Abuse
    (2013-08-05) Fielding, Stephen M.; Duwve, Joan; Wilson, Gregory; Steele, Gregory
    Prescription drug abuse has been a growing problem in Indiana and around the nation for almost two decades. In recent years, prescription drug overdoses have pushed drug poisonings ahead of motor vehicle crashes as the leading cause of injury death. However, deaths due to overdoses of prescription drugs are only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the much larger problem of abuse. This study has characterized prescription drug abuse in Indiana and taken an in-depth look at how it is and can be addressed both through organizational policies and state legislation. Opioid painkillers such as hydrocodone, oxycodone, and methadone are the most commonly abused prescription drugs, and most of these prescriptions are written by primary care physicians. Because more than 70% of Indiana’s family medicine residents will remain in the state to practice medicine following the conclusion of their residencies, it is worthwhile to take a look at how these residents are being educated during their training. St. Vincent’s Family Medicine Residency program in Indianapolis is one of several residency programs in Indiana training their residents on best practices of prescribing controlled substances. A review of residents’ prescribing patterns before and after training on the subject went into effect showed significant reductions in the number of opioid painkillers being prescribed, and showed the same reductions for alprazolam, a benzodiazepine anxiolytic.
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    Twenty-four–Seven In-house Faculty and Resident Education
    (Elsevier, 2018-01) Deitte, Lori A.; Chen, Po-Hao; Scanlon, Mary H.; Heitkamp, Darel E.; Davis, Lawrence P.; Urban, Seth; Marx, M. Victoria; Slanetz, Priscilla J.; Radiology and Imaging Sciences, School of Medicine