Quebec medical schools slow to adopt pass/fail system

Canadian medical schools slow to integrate health informatics into curriculum.

Should medical schools be schools for virtue?

I n the Republic , Plato recounts the myth of Gyges, who wore a ring that allowed him to become invisible simply by turning the ring around his finger. 1 Gyges misused the ring’s powers to seduce the wife of the king, kill him, and take over the country. The lesson that Plato drew from this myth was that the person of true virtue is the one who can be trusted to do the right thing, even when no...

New Medical Schools

One of the most valuable of recent efforts for the treatment of mental disease has been the establishment of the Maudsley Hospital with its pathological department for the purpose of research in psychological medicine. Started at the suggestion of Dr. Henry Maudsley, who gave altogether ?40,000 towards the cost of building, it was erected for the teaching of this subject, and for the treatment,...

Medical Inspection of Schools

In many countries, notably Sweden, Norway and Argentina, followed by Switzerland, Germany and the United States, schemes, dealing more or less effectively with the complex problem of school hygiene have gradually been evolved, generally springing from local municipal effort, later becoming centralised ; but in England there were few centres in which any serious attention had been given to the m...

To Adopt or Not to Adopt - That is the Question

The area of adoption and diffusion has had a strong pro-innovation bias (Brancheau and Wetherbe 1990; Parthasarathy and Bhattacherjee 1998; Ram 1987; Venkatesh and Brown 2001). This bias has resulted in somewhat of a neglect of the area of non-adoption. Existing theories including TAM (Davis 1989) and the innovation diffusion theory (Rogers 1983) provide critical insights into technology usage....