School health in pediatric residency training: 1994

Article Abstract:

Evidence suggests that residency programs in pediatrics value the skills required to work with the elementary and high school systems but few require practical experience in using those skills. Researchers evaluated the responses from 154 polled pediatric residency programs about the actual and ideal school health content and requirements in their programs. Program requirements varied from coursework in disease screening (71%), drug abuse (71%), school fears (64%), and sports injuries (57%) to offering practical experience within a school system (43%). However, only 34% of these programs require this practical experience. Many programs considered individual student evaluations and special education experiences to be important (49%, 70%). However, far fewer programs required these experiences (31%, 31%). Only 16% of the supervising faculty members at the school-site training received compensation for their time.

Medical students, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes

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Use of E-mail to Teach Residents Pediatric Emergency Medicine

Article Abstract:

Electronic mail forums may effectively teach pediatric emergency medicine to medical residents. Researchers evaluated a system in which a daily medical question was emailed to pediatric residents, replies solicited, and correct answers and discussion then sent to all recipients. About half of the residents sent in replies, averaging 38 replies in an academic year from each resident. Ninety-two percent of residents rated the email services as good or better than pediatric Grand Rounds, and 87% rated it as good or better than the Resident Lecture Series.

United States, Usage, Electronic mail systems, Email, Study and teaching, Pediatric emergencies

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Pediatric residents: are the ready to use computer-aided instruction?

Article Abstract:

Pediatric residents seem to have positive attitudes toward computer-aided instruction (CAI), but are not completely ready to use it. While the four pediatric residency classes surveyed through questionnaire ranked CAI ahead of printed educational materials, they ranked it behind personal teaching by a pediatrician. Men were more likely to own and use a computer than women, more likely to have on-line access, but attitudes toward teaching use did not differ between men and women.

Surveys, Computer-assisted instruction, Computer assisted instruction

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