JEPM - Past Articles - Volume VIII

Improved Testing Results for International Medical Graduates

Edwin W. Herron, MD; Frank Zavisca, MD, PhD; Randall C. Cork, MD, PhD

A Regional Anesthesia Cadaver Dissection Laboratory

Steven L. Orebaugh, MD

SEA Spring Abstracts

Abstracts presented at the 2006 Annual Spring Meeting of the Society for Education in Anesthesia, June 2-4, 2006 at Loews Vanderbilt Hotel, Nashville, Tennessee

• Simulation as a Mechanism for Education and Evaluation of Resuscitation
• Endotracheal Intubation Training: Learning with the Mobile Telementoring Intubating Video Laryngoscope
• Development of an Effective Tool to Evaluate Grand Rounds
• Teaching Geriatric Anesthesia to Medical Students
• Use Of A Specification Table To Assure Cognitive Mastery in A M4 Clinical Clerkship
• A Synergistic Approach to Teaching Practice Management and the ACGME Competencies
• Traditional Internship Does Not Improve Resident Comfort Level in Anesthesia Related Skills
• Practice Based Learning and Improvement Exercises: Opportunities for Reflective Practice by Anesthesiology Residents
• Changing Regional Anesthesia Experience: Integration of Procedural Anatomy Course
• Using a Video Laryngoscope to Facilitate Teaching Direct Laryngoscopy and Intubation
• Formative Specialty Rotation Exams
• Teaching and Assessing Communication Skills in Anesthesiology
• Teaching and Evaluating Anesthesia Residents in the PACU Rotation
• The Individual “Balanced Scorecard” for Faculty Evaluation and Determining Incentive Payments
• A Technique of Teaching Epidural Placement in the Laboring Parturient
• Development of a Goals and Objectives Based Curriculum Incorporating the Competencies
• Examination of a Model Curriculum for Teaching the ACGME Competencies of Professionalism and Interpersonal and Communication Skills in a Pediatric Anesthesiology Fellowship
• Affect of a Haptic Simulator on the Success of Spinal Needle Placement
• Crisis Resource Management (CRM) and Crisis Management (CM) in a Pain Clinic: Preparatory Training in a Simulation Facility followed by on Location Practice
• Efficacy of Methods of Teaching Professionalism
• The Effect of a Structured Introductory Reading Program on Anesthesia Knowledge Test1 (AKT) Scores at The University of Tennessee Graduate School of Medicine
• Factors Involved in the Choice of Anesthesiology: An Applicant Survey
• Creativity and Medical Education
• Effect of Review Committee on Program Cycle Length
• Using Medical Simulation to Teach Medical Students Management of the Pediatric Airway
• Percutaneous Cricothyrotomy and retrograde Wire Intubation in Embalmed Cadavers
• Estimating Blood Loss: A Survey of Abilities
• The Training and Careers of Regional Anesthesia Fellows
• Accuracy of Anatomical Landmarks in Locating the Internal Jugular Vein Cannulation Site Among Different Levels of Anesthesiology Trainees
• Anesthesia Residents Have a Negative Opinion on Proposed ACGME Changes to the Curriculum