Awareness Regarding Perineal Protection, Obstetric Anal Sphincter Injury, and Episiotomy Among Obstetrics and Gynecology Residents; Effects of an Educational Workshop.

Objectives: Appropriate perineal protection may reduce rates of obstetric anal sphincter injuries (OASIS). We sought to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of obstetrics and gynecology residents concerning perineal protection, OASIS, and episiotomy before and after an educational workshop.

Methods: This was an institutional review board-approved cross-sectional survey study of obstetrics and gynecology residents.

Teaching resident physicians chronic disease management: simulating a 10-year longitudinal clinical experience with a standardized dementia patient and caregiver.

Background: Education for all physicians should include specialty-specific geriatrics-related and chronic disease-related topics.

Objective: We describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of a chronic disease/geriatric medicine curriculum designed to teach Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education core competencies and geriatric medicine competencies to residents by using longitudinal encounters with a standardized dementia patient and her caregiver daughter.

Intervention: Over 3 half-day sessions, the unfolding standardized patient (SP) case portrays the progressive course of dementia and simulates a 10-year longitudinal clinical experience between residents and a patient with dementia and her daughter.