Despite the massive growth of on-line information resources, many clinicians still prefer to obtain information from other clinicians, particularly those to whom they refer patients. Based on this notion and an information needs assessment, we developed the Professional's Information Link (PiL), a Web-based asynchronous consultation service to facilitate question answering between rural clinici...

Thus, when there is a large variation in the number of specialists, it may be more difficult to achieve a harmonization of the content of the speciality and specialist training. Given the free movement and automatic recognition of medical specialists in the EU, it would be important to develop a programme for the recognition of quality and for quality assurance of the specialist training. So fa...

CONTEXT There is a growing consensus among medical educators that to promote the professional development of medical students, schools of medicine should provide explicit learning experiences in professionalism. OBJECTIVE To determine whether and how schools of medicine were teaching professionalism in the 1998-1999 academic year. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS A 2-stage survey was sent ...

He might, however, have opined that although the law says it is the wife, as long as he documents that in light of the years of separation and attempt to divorce on the part of the wife, he can allow the girlfriend to decide. Both responses answer the question, and both are defensible even if contrary to each other. In our paradigm for graduate medical education, neither is satisfactory by itse...

Challenges in the growing complexity of the health care field not only concern health care professionals in terms of delivering adequate treatment to their patients, but also in terms of further enhancing and professionalizing methods of teaching. For this reason, experts are needed to design and assess curricula and improve learning environments for undergraduate, postgraduate, and continuing ...

BACKGROUND To conduct a systematic assessment of library and informatics training at accredited Western U.S. medical schools. To provide a structured description of core practices, detect trends through comparisons across institutions, and to identify innovative training approaches at the medical schools. METHODS Action research study pursued through three phases. The first phase used inducti...

He might, however, have opined that although the law says it is the wife, as long as he documents that in light of the years of separation and attempt to divorce on the part of the wife, he can allow the girlfriend to decide. Both responses answer the question, and both are defensible even if contrary to each other. In our paradigm for graduate medical education, neither is satisfactory by itse...

PURPOSE The core curriculum in graduate medical education (GME) is an educational program that covers the minimum body of knowledge and skills that is required of all residents, regardless of their specialty. This study examined the opinions of stakeholders in GME regarding the core curriculum. METHODS A questionnaire was administered at three tertiary hospitals that were affiliated with one ...