A medical school's approach to meeting the challenges of interdisciplinary global health education for resident physicians.

Background: Following a similar trend among United States (US) medical students, US resident physicians are increasingly interested in pursuing global health education. Largely, residency education has lagged behind in addressing this demand. Time and curriculum requirements make meeting this need challenging.

Taking Care of Our Own: A Multispecialty Study of Resident and Program Director Perspectives on Contributors to Burnout and Potential Interventions.

Objective: Rates of resident physician burnout range from 60 to 76 % and are rising. Consequently, there is an urgent need for academic medical centers to develop system-wide initiatives to combat burnout in physicians. Academic psychiatrists who advocate for or treat residents should be familiar with the scope of the problem and the contributors to burnout and potential interventions to mitigate it.

Reflections of a mid-career clinician educator--fanning the flames for teaching.

Family medicine educators today face vast challenges. Clinical demands and the lack of specific revenue streams for our educational mission are among the many threats to the commitment of our faculty to keep education in its rightful place of honor and value within our academic institutions. To preserve our historic and critical mission, it is imperative that we find ways to rekindle the passion that called many of us to a teaching career path.

A maternal and child health curriculum for family practice residents: results of an intervention at the University of North Carolina.

Background And Objectives: There has been a significant reduction in the number of family physicians who provide pregnancy care. This study examines the effects of an educational intervention at a university-based family practice residency. The intervention was designed to increase the number of graduates who include prenatal care or deliveries in their practices.