Assessing fitness to practise: Revalidation is a long and winding road

A Long and Winding Road

Gita Sen ([email protected]) is at the Centre for Public Policy, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore and was a member of the Planning Commission-constituted High Level Expert Group on Universal Health Coverage. India’s steps towards universal health coverage began in the early years after Independence but they faltered because of various factors, including resource constraints. The conte...

A long and winding road

Introduction In August 2003, the plant endomembrane community gathered under the auspices of the Society for Experimental Biology to consider the latest developments in the rapidly growing field of the plant secretory pathway. The meeting was preceded by the two-day annual gathering of the European Plant Secretory Pathway Group, during which postgraduates and postdocs presented their latest dat...

the long and winding road

The Long and Winding Road to Innovation

Medicine is developing through biomedical technology and innovations. The goal of any innovation in medicine is to improve patient care. Exponential growth in technology has led to the unprecedented growth of medical technology over the last 50 years. Clinician-scientists need to understand the complexity of the innovation process, from concept to product release, when working to bring new clin...

The Long and Winding Road

Day by day the competition get tougher, the exams harder and the textbooks larger. Indeed, it is a long and winding road for the high school graduate seeking university admission to study medicine. The graduate desiring to excel must prepare to travel a tortuous path laden with obstacles. In Iran, in order to obtain admission to medical school, one must place approximately among 3622 of the 442...