Ten Years of Graduates Evaluate a Pediatric Residency Program

How well do paediatric residency programmes prepare residents for clinical practice and their future careers?

“…This is the first Canadian study to look at all the specific medical topics of a specialty and at the 7 CanMEDS roles of the specialist. Our findings are similar to those of studies of US paediatric programmes 8,9 , 14,15 , 17 and the previous study carried out at a Canadian centre 26 . Overwhelmingly, newly qualified paediatricians were satisfied with their training and felt they had been adequately prepared for their careers.…”

Building Emergency Medicine Trainee Competency in Pediatric Musculoskeletal Radiograph Interpretation: A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study

“…2,3 Unfortunately, the interpretation of pediatric MSK radiographs has been shown to be relatively deficient among graduating pediatric and emergency medicine residents who will be working in EDs. [4][5][6][7][8] These training results echo what has been noted in clinical practice, where misinterpretation of pediatric MSK radiographs in general and pediatric EDs has been estimated to be up to 19%, 1,[9][10][11] and pediatric extremity radiographs have been found to be one of the most common causes of discrepant radiograph reports. 12,13 As many as 86% of these misinterpretations require a change in management, 14 and in the United States, misdiagnoses of pediatric fractures has accounted for the third largest amount of dollars paid out to settle malpractice claims.…”

Evaluating a Residency Program Using Reflections of Recent Resident Graduates and their Pediatric Colleagues

“…As with other surveys of pediatric resident graduates 4,10 , behavioral and developmental pediatrics training was frequently cited by our resident graduates as inadequate. Study participants also mentioned the importance of clinical learning in general pediatric settings that accurately reflect modern primary care practice during residency.…”