Impact of general medicine rotation training on the in-training examination scores of 11, 244 Japanese resident physicians: a Nationwide multi-center cross-sectional study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although general medicine (GM) faculty in Japanese medical schools have an important role in educating medical students, the importance of residents' rotation training in GM in postgraduate education has not been sufficiently recognized in Japan. To evaluate the relationship between the rotation of resident physicians in the GM department and their In-Training Examination score.

Methods

This study is a nationwide multi-center cross-sectional study in Japan. Participants of this study are Japanese junior resident physicians [postgraduate year (PGY)-1 and PGY-2] who took the General Medicine In-Training Examination (GM-ITE) in fiscal years 2016 to 2018 at least once (n = 11,244). The numbers of participating hospitals in the GM-ITE were 381, 459, and 503 in 2016, 20

SUBMITTER: Nishizaki Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7666491 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature