TY  - JOUR
T1  - STress experienced during pediatric residency training program
AU  - SCHUBERT WK
Y1  - 1989/11/01
N1  - 10.1001/archpedi.1989.02150230015001
JO  - American Journal of Diseases of Children
SP  - 1257
EP  - 1257
VL  - 143
IS  - 11
N2  - Sir.—I write to laud the articles by Hoekelman1 and Cohen and colleagues2 in the February 1989 issue of AJDC. In looking at the balance between the financial needs of young people in pediatric training and the financial distress that institutions increasingly are incurring and are going to incur to an even greater degree, one wonders whether, in addition to some of the solutions suggested by the above authors, pediatric residency training should be changed, both at the training program level and at the American board level.Of the total 3 years in pediatric residency at our institution, 3 months are spent on vacation and 6 months are spent in "electives." Of these electives, one is psychosocial and of definitive value in future practice. On the other electives, the resident acts as a junior fellow, by and large, doing the initial consultation on the patient for the fellow
SN  - 0002-922X
M3  - doi: 10.1001/archpedi.1989.02150230015001
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/archpedi.1989.02150230015001
ER  -