Medical-Education-Industrial Complex?

[Development, health-industrial complex and industrial policy].

This paper puts health questions within the context of national development and industrial policy. It follows the idea of structuralist, Marxist and Schumpeterian approaches, in which industry and innovations form determining factors for the dynamism in capitalist economies and relative positions within the world economy. All countries that have developed and started to compete under better con...

The Military Industrial Complex

This paper reviews the origin and theoretical foundation of the concept MilitaryIndustrial Complex and explains the key issues involved in the literature on the MIC in the Cold war context. It then considers the implications for the MIC of some main post-Cold War developments, with particular emphasis on the arms industry, its structure and effects. It then assesses the degree to which the end ...

The Industrial-military Complex

Ideals in Medical Education Ideals in Medical Education

" Is it any depreciation of the great military geniuses of the past to say that, if suddenly plunged into the midst of a modern engagement, they would be worse than worthless, that, without the requisite knowledge and experience, their genius would be useless? Yet do we not desiderate that same genius for our own leaders, without which all their knowledge and experience are of no avail ?..... "...

Competency-based medical education in postgraduate medical education.

With the introduction of Tomorrow's Doctors in 1993, medical education began the transition from a time- and process-based system to a competency-based training framework. Implementing competency-based training in postgraduate medical education poses many challenges but ultimately requires a demonstration that the learner is truly competent to progress in training or to the next phase of a prof...