Fellowship training in Acute Care Surgery: from inception to current state.

Recognizing the need for urgent and emergent surgical care across America, the American Association for the Surgery of Trauma developed and implemented, and oversees, the Acute Care Surgery Fellowship Training Program. Now in its 10th year, the fellowship has become an established post-General Surgery Fellowship Training Program, with 20 approved programs and 82 fellows trained. Consistent with the desire to have this non-Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) fellowship one with the highest standards, several educational improvements have occurred since its origin. The following is an account of the background and evolution of what has become a significant educational contribution to surgery

Use and Evaluation of a New Nurse Practitioner Fellowship Program

The project addresses fellowship programs for new graduate nurse practitioners. The goal is to determine if a nurse residency or fellowship program is beneficial in role transition as a new graduate nurse practitioner. Nurse practitioner residency or fellowship programs are typically 12 months in duration, have small cohort sizes of two to four trainees, and are composed of a combination of didactic educational content, clinical supervision, peer support and debriefing, and self-reflection The study utilizes a survey design to measure the impact of a nurse practitioner fellowship program versus a standard orientation period. The article concludes with barriers and recommendations to complete for future projects

Innovative Approaches to Emergency Medical Services Fellowship Challenges

Introduction: Since the development of an Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME)-accredited emergency medical services (EMS) fellowship, there has been little published literature on effective methods of content delivery or training modalities. Here we explore a variety of innovative approaches to the development and revision of the EMS fellowship curriculum.Methods: Three academic, university-based ACGME-accredited EMS fellowship programs each implemented an innovative change to their existing training curricula. These changes included the following: a novel didactic curriculum delivery modality and evaluation; implementation of a distance education program to improve EMS fellows’ rural EMS experiences; and modification of an existing EMS fellowship curriculum to train a non-emergency medicine physician.Results: Changes made to each of the above EMS fellowship programs addressed unique challenges, demonstrating areas of success and promise for more generalized implementation of these curricula. Obstacles remain in tailoring the described curricula to the needs of each unique institution and system.Conclusion: Three separate curricula and program changes were implemented to overcome specific challenges and achieve educational goals. It is our hope that our shared experiences will enable others in addressing common barriers to teaching the EMS fellowship core content and share similar innovative approaches to educational challenges

Publication trends among internal medicine residents, fellows, and graduates and its relationship to future academic achievement

Background: Medical research is essential for establishing evidence-based care and furthering clinical practice knowledge for the success of physicians. For example, research is considered a scholarly activity by the American College of Graduate Medical Education and is a requirement during residency (1). Furthermore, research is used as a tool to measure academic success given that it allows for a qualitative measure for residency and fellowship applications. Publication trends among internal medicine have previously been studied (2,3); however, our follow-up study also adjusts for gender when comparing research success and outcomes. Our primary objective is to assess the influence that research in medical school has on residency success by analyzing fellowship placement, h-index scores, and continued research success measured by publications.Methods: Using Doximity residency navigator, we reviewed internal medicine graduates from 50 randomly sampled residency programs. From each included program, publicly available graduate records were obtained and included for identification of each graduate. After extracting our list of graduates, each graduate was searched on SCOPUS for degree, gender, fellowship pursued, h-index, academics pursued, and publications. Microsoft Excel and Stata 15.1 were used for all statistical analysis functions.Results: Our initial search of internal medicine residency programs yielded 530 programs of which we randomly sampled 50 programs. Among the 50 programs, 328 graduates were identified and included in our analysis. Over half of our sample were males with the most common fellowship pursued being cardiology (Table 1). Graduates with first authorship publication prior to residency were more likely to pursue a fellowship or go into academic medicine (Table 2).Conclusion: Our study found that graduates with primary author publication before residency were more likely to go into academic medicine or pursue a fellowship after internal medicine residency. Given that Internal medicine provides several options following residency, research provides a qualitative measure of academic performance and future success. Our study highlighted no difference among gender and future career success. These results are comparable to other studies (2,3). In conclusion, total publications, first author publication, and h-index scores independently indicate a significant positive correlation in pursuing a fellowship or academic medicine after residency

Forecasting rain events in the southern Great Plains using GPS total precipitable water amounts

Includes bibliographical references.Funding for this research is supported by an American Meteorological Society Graduate Student Fellowship, sponsored by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Office of Global Programs, by NOAA under cooperative agreement NA17RJ1228 with CIRA, and by the Research and Scholarly Programs fund at Colorado State University (CSU)

Publication trends among anesthesiology graduates and its relationship with future academic success

Purpose: Research during medical training is widely considered to be an integral component of residency and fellowship match success, with many residency programs encouraging residents to engage in scholastic activities, such as serving as authors on peer-reviewed publications. However, the degree to which these scholarly practices continue beyond residency is unknown. Here, we investigate publication trends among graduates of anesthesiology residency programs as part of a larger initiative to examine publication trends and academic achievement across medical specialties.Methods: We employed a cross-sectional study design analyzing research output by graduates of anesthesiology residencies in relation to future publications and academic accomplishments from a random sample of 50 anesthesiology residency rosters using Doximity. For each graduate, we extracted from Scopus the number publications, H-index score, fellowship attainment, and post-graduate practice setting.Results: We identified 153 anesthesiology residency programs, of which 50 were randomly selected. Fifteen programs provided rosters, consisting of 390 graduates. The majority of graduates (197/390, 50.5%) had 1 or more publications, while 193 (49.5%) had zero publications, with an average of 2 publications per graduate and a median H-index score of 1.2. Most graduates pursued a fellowship (227/390, 58.2%), however, less than one-quarter (101/390, 25.9%) currently practice in an academic setting. Pearson correlation test demonstrated a positive correlation between the number of publications before residency and H-index (0.84), as well as during (0.33) and after residency (0.39). Graduates that had higher mean total publications were more likely to go into academic medicine (M = 3.8, SD 0.6) and pursue a fellowship after residency (M = 3.1, SD 0.4) than those that did not (M = 1.4, SD 0.3) (t390=-4.2, p <.001) and (M = 0.5, SD 0.1) (t390=-5.2, p <.001), respectively. Male graduates (M = 2.4, SD 0.4) had a higher mean publication total than female graduates (M = 1.3, SD 0.2) (t390=-2.0, p <.05).Conclusion: Despite scholastic activity being a requirement of graduate medical education, few graduates of anesthesiology residency programs are publishing research. We believe that promoting greater physician involvement in the research process will strengthen confidence in the interpretation and application of research findings

Pathways to Federal Government: A Study of the Pathways Programs and Millennial Inclusion in Federal Government

This study seeks to better understand the federal government’s “Pathways Programs”, which are comprised of internships, recent graduate hiring priorities, and the Presidential Management Fellowship (PMF). The purpose of the Pathways Program is to increase younger generations’ access to federal employment. This study hopes to assess the relationship between participation in the Pathways Programs and the percentage of the millennials working within federal government, as a means of evaluating the success of the Pathways Programs

The USDA CSREES Higher Education Program: Doctoral Fellowships in the National Need Area of Management and Marketing

The objective of this study is to summarize the HEP graduate fellowship program in the national need area of management and marketing. The fellowships are the most prestigious in the agricultural sciences in the United States and the monetary amount of the fellowship is the highest in the agricultural sciences at $22,000 per year. Almost 40 percent of all graduated fellows are currently employed in academic positions in the United States and are represented on the faculty of 27 universities. This program could serve as a model for other countries that seek to develop similar fellowships for the purpose of creating a cadre of leaders within agribusiness management. It is important that qualified fellows be recruited, trained, and graduated from doctoral programs that have demonstrated success in training students in the national need of management and marketing.Marketing, Teaching/Communication/Extension/Profession,

Graduate Connections- April 2010

In This Issue: Navigating Graduate School ....... 1 A Checklist for Analyzing Information Sources Fellowship Evaluation and Application Good Practices in Graduate Education........... 3 Academic Integrity and Technology Professional Development ........... 4 Getting the Most out of a Research Conference What Makes a Good Teacher? Teaching Tip ................................. 6 End-of-Semester Grading Funding Opportunities ................. 7 The Graduate Writer .................... 8 Choose Words with Care Announcements ............................ 9 Last Day to Withdraw Online Graduate Programs Events ............................................. 9 NURAMP Research Fair Nebraska Lecture Water for Food Conference ITA Institute SPEAK Test Dates Campus-wide TA Workshop Interactions .................................11 Kudos GSA News Calendar ......................................12 Event Dates/Deadlines Degree Deadlines Readers’ Corner ..........................13 The Academic’s Handboo

Creation and Implementation of a Pediatric Advanced Practice Nurse Critical Care Fellowship Program

Advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) who begin their careers in the pediatric intensive care unit (PICU) may be challenged in this practice environment. Inadequate prior experience as a staff nurse, limited opportunities for clinical placements in the PICU during graduate education, and being in a fast-paced, high-acuity practice environment without prior exposure to critically ill children are practice challenges in the PICU setting. The goal of postgraduate education training programs (fellowship programs) for the acute care pediatric nurse practitioner (ACPNP) is to prepare students to become beginner practitioners who can function effectively in the acute care setting within a few months of being hired, much like that of their physician counterparts who complete a fellowship. The health care environment continues to be influenced by trends in national health care reform, shifts in the models for physician training, and the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education resident duty hour restrictions. These emerging trends have given health care organizations the opportunity to evaluate their current care delivery and training models. It is expected that the demand for APRNs with specialty training will increase. The aim of this article is to describe our experience in the creation and implementation of a critical care pediatric nurse practitioner (CCPNP) fellowship training program at a large midwestern U.S. tertiary care center. It is expected that the demand for APRNs with specialty training will increase. When this fellowship was created, there were no known fellowships available for pediatric nurse practitioners (PNPs) interested in pediatric critical care. To meet the needs of these providers, a focused training program is required to provide specific preparation and competencies to practice to the full extent of the provider\u27s license. A recent recommendation is for health care administrators to consider implementing fellowship training programs to assist nurse practitioners transitioning into specialty roles (Kells, Dunn, Melchiono, & Burke, 2015). We used several online search engines to identify pediatric health care institutions with active advanced practice provider postgraduate fellowships. Our search in June 2017 identified fellowship programs in primary care, pediatric hematology/oncology, palliative care, neuro-critical care, and urgent care/emergency department. To our knowledge, this fellowship program was the first of its kind and seeks to provide postgraduate specialty training and education focused on the unique requirements of critically ill children and their families to help fill a knowledge gap when entering practice in this highly specialized practice environment