Uppal Pushpinder, Shantharam Rohini, Kaufmann Tara Lynn
Stony Brook School of Medicine, Stony Brook, New York.
Dermatol Online J. 2017 Dec 15;23(12):13030/qt43w5n9rc.
Elective time during residency training provides residents with exposure to different subspecialties. This opportunity gives residents the chance tonurture growth in particular areas of interest and broaden their knowledge base in certain topics in dermatology by having the chance to work withexperts in the field. The purpose of this study was to assess the views of residency program directors and dermatology residents on the value of elective time through a cross sectional survey. An eight-questionIRB exempt survey was sent out to 113 residency program directors via email through the American Professors of Dermatology (APD) program director listserv. Program directors were asked to forward a separate set of 9 questions to their residents. The majority of programs that responded allowed for some elective time within their schedule, often duringthe PGY 4 (3rd year of dermatology training), but the amount of time allowed widely varied among many residency programs. Overall, residents and program directors agree that elective is important in residencytraining, but no standardization is established across programs.
住院医师培训期间的选修时间让住院医师有机会接触不同的亚专业。这个机会使住院医师有机会在特定感兴趣的领域培养成长，并通过与该领域的专家合作，拓宽他们在皮肤科某些主题方面的知识基础。本研究的目的是通过横断面调查评估住院医师培训项目主任和皮肤科住院医师对选修时间价值的看法。一项包含8个问题的豁免机构审查委员会（IRB）的调查问卷通过美国皮肤科教授（APD）项目主任邮件列表，以电子邮件的形式发送给113名住院医师培训项目主任。项目主任被要求将另一组9个问题转发给他们的住院医师。大多数回复的项目在其日程安排中允许有一些选修时间，通常是在PGY 4（皮肤科培训的第3年）期间，但许多住院医师培训项目允许的时间量差异很大。总体而言，住院医师和项目主任都认为选修在住院医师培训中很重要，但各项目之间没有建立标准化。
