A prospective survey of procedures performed by emergency medicine residents during a 36-month residency.
Future specialty training requirements for emergency medicine may include adequately documented records of procedures and resuscitations performed. A computer database was developed to track these data and to report the experience of one graduating class of nine emergency medicine residents. This study was a prospective survey conducted at a community hospital with a fully accredited (PGY 1-3) emergency medicine residency program. This study showed that data on resident procedures can be adequately documented using a computer database to determine whether requirements for emergency medicine resident training are met. The problems of resident data entry compliance and determining procedural competence are discussed briefly.
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Section of Emergency Medicine & Trauma, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City 73126-0307, USA.
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D015986:Confounding Factors, Epidemiologic; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004635:Emergency Medicine / Q000193:education*; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D011446:Prospective Studies; D012984:Software