I. Introductory caveats. This article is discussing the situation at North American universities in general, and not specifically those in BC. Some details may be slightly different in BC from the rest of the continent, as well as varying between different institutions of higher education in BC. However indications are that most of the general features are largely the same throughout North Amer...

The 2014 Institute of Medicine report, Graduate Medical Education that Meets the Nation's Health Needs, challenged the current graduate medical training process and encouraged new opportunities to redefine the fundamental skills and abilities of the physician workforce. This workforce should be skilled in critically evaluating the current systems to improve care delivery and health. To meet the...

A considerable amount of research has been conducted on factors distinguishing between students who are at risk for dropping out of high school compared to those who graduate. This study examined attitudes regarding compliance and ratings of the importance of classroom rules for interaction among students from schools varying in dropout rates. A survey was distributed to over 200 students at th...

Medical education accreditation organizations require medical ethics and humanities education to develop professionalism in medical learners, yet there has never been a comprehensive critical appraisal of medical education in ethics and humanities. The Project to Rebalance and Integrate Medical Education (PRIME) I Workshop, convened in May 2010, undertook the first critical appraisal of the def...

The widening income gap between specialists and primary care physicians (PCPs) has spurred many physician associations to reform the current Resource-Based Relative Value Scale fee schedule and sustainable growth rate expenditure target system. Hoping to better represent primary care, the American Association of Family Physicians formed a task force in 2011 to suggest supplements to the Relativ...

FOUNDATIONAL PLATFORM Service The OUSCM will deliver evidence-based, Community Collaboration The OUSCM will accountable and affordable health care that meets the become a widely known leader in building healthy needs and values of the residents of our community. communities through relationship-centered collaboration. Education We will develop the profession of Positive Institutional Culture Th...

In 1999 a seminal Institute of Medicine report estimated that preventable medical errors accounted for 44,000-98,000 patient deaths annually in U.S. hospitals. In response to this problem, the nation's medical schools, teaching hospitals, and health systems recognized that achieving greater patient safety requires more than a brief course in an already crowded medical school curriculum. It requ...

Future graduates of medical schools in the United States will practice in healthcare environments increasingly predominated by managed care. Thus allopathic and osteopathic undergraduate and postgraduate residency training programs should begin to revise their respective curricula and conduct training in managed healthcare environments to prepare graduates for practice in managed care settings....

BACKGROUND In a time of threats to the funding for graduate medical education (GME) and projected physician shortages, drawing attention to the value of physician training programs may be useful. One approach is to study the number and percentage of physicians who enter practice in the state in which they trained. OBJECTIVE We sought to examine the percentage of graduates from a single Michig...

The Northern Ontario School of Medicine (NOSM) was established as a not-for-profit medical education corporation in November 2002 with a social accountability mandate to provide "undergraduate and post graduate medical education programs that are innovative and responsive to the individual needs of students and to the healthcare needs of the people in Northern Ontario."[1] NOSM is not only the ...