Correlation between an email based board review program and American Board of Pediatrics General Pediatrics Certifying Examination scores.

Objective: To investigate the impact of a weekly email based board review course on individual resident performance on the American Board of Pediatrics (ABP) General Pediatrics Certifying Examination for pediatric residents and, specifically, residents with low ABP In-training Examination (ITE) scores.

Methods: Weekly board-type questions were emailed to all pediatric residents from 2004-2007. Responses to board-type questions were tracked, recorded, and correlated with ITE scores and ABP General Pediatrics Certifying Examination Scores.

A prospective controlled study of neonatal morbidities in infants born at 36 weeks or more gestation to Women with diet-controlled gestational diabetes (GDM-class Al).

Objective: Infants of gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM)-A1 women are unlikely to experience the marked excursion in maternal glucose levels that may characterize insulin-requiring GDM (class-A2) or insulin-dependent diabetes (IDDM). However, infants born to GDM-A1 women are traditionally managed like infants born to GDM-A2 or IDDM women.

Aims: To examine monitoring protocols for infants of GDM-A1 women, and to examine the efficacy of early and frequent feedings to prevent and to treat hypoglycemia.