Objectives: Previous research has shown that residents were unable to effectively challenge
a superior's wrong decision during a crisis situation, a problem that can contribute to …

Objective: We aimed to determine internal medicine residents' perceptions of the adequacy
of their training to serve as in-hospital cardiac arrest team leaders, given the responsibility of …

THE RESUSCITATION OF A PATIENT IN EXTREMIS is frequently characterized by chaos
and disorganization, and is one of the most stressful situations in medicine. We reviewed …

Objective: To examine the effectiveness of self-debriefing as compared to instructor
debriefing in the change of nontechnical skills performance of anesthesiology residents …

Study objective The inherent pressures of high-acuity, critical illness in the emergency
department create a unique environment whereby acute goals-of-care discussions must be …

Purpose Health care professionals are expected to acquire decision-making skills during
their training, but few methods are available to assess progress in acquiring these essential …

The article explains how the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
(ACGME) milestones can help residents achieve graded and progressive responsibility …

Background: Critical care rotations involve emotionally unsettling situations with greater
frequency and intensity than those that are encountered in other portions of residency …

Objectives: There is substantial variation in use of life sustaining technologies in patients
near the end of life but little is known about variation in physicians' initial ICU admission and …

Anecdotal evidence suggests that anxiety and lack of confidence in managing acutely ill
patients adversely affects performance. We evaluated the impact of attending an ALERT™ …