Depth as well as breadth for postgraduate education.

Depth as well as breadth for postgraduate education.

There was a request recently to categorise aspects of postgraduate medical education as either "academic" or "vocational." This raises a question about the meaning of words and about the logic behind such a distinction. In common parlance "academic" means impracticable and irrelevant to the real business of living. A "vocation" was once a calling to the higher rungs of a profession but now "voc...

Modern management of heart failure: education as well as medication.

Heart failure is a disease of epidemic proportions with three quarters of patients afflicted dying within 3 years. Aside from the appalling prognosis of the condition patients suffer greatly, as does the purse of the national health budget. These patients are admitted time and time again for prolonged periods for worsening heart failure, have multiple co-morbidities and often lack social suppor...

Breadth, Depth, and Competition

We consider the trade-offs in the choice between depth (a narrow high quality position) and breadth (a wide low quality range). In particular, the extent of depth or breadth in a market can be non-monotonic in the strength of competition.

Postgraduate education for pediatricians.

Thank you very much for inviting me to start off the discussions today on post-graduate medical education. Historically post-graduate education has always been grounded in the perception of the specific health care needs of patients. Therefore, I'm first going to address some of the more important health care needs of children, emphasizing the unmet needs which future pediatricians must be prep...

liver transplantation for quality as well as quantity of life