Earlier today, I had a conversation with a program coordinator friend. She was running a survey to learn about how people perceive program coordinators. I had some thoughts, and she seemed to appreciate hearing them.

We have been working with GME programs (That's Graduate Medical Education for our friends who are not in academic medicine) for the last eight years. We spend a massive ...

Scheduling is a complicated process, especially in graduate medical education. Residents need to complete their requirements in different disciplines, while institutional staffing needs and patient needs must also be considered. In our experience, scheduling in GME, we have seen an approach called X+Y that can be very beneficial in programs with ambulatory training. This format has been in ...