The works of Shakespeare are a rich lode to mine for Elizabethan views of the world. His plays were popular, so we may assume that the playgoers understood the conceits and references. If the vocabulary is more flamboyant than that in general use today, it only reflects a more elegant language. When, as is frequent, Shakespeare employs medical terms, he owes much to the philosophy of humoral pa...

1Rheumatology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy; 2Clinical and Experimental Rheumatology, Pisa, Italy; 3Department of Medicine, Hebrew University-Hadassah Medical Centers, Ein Kerem, Israel; 4Division of Rheumatology, Department of Medicine, Cerrahpaşa Medical Faculty, University of Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey; Rosaria Talarico, MD Luisa Marconcini, Managing ...

Purpose The approximately 250 board certified Pediatric Rheumatologists in the United States are unable to see all of the children in need of specialized rheumatologic care. Consequently, many pediatric patients receive this care from practitioners trained in internal medicine and/or adult rheumatology. With only 10-20 fellows graduating from pediatric rheumatology training programs each year, ...

The aims, structure, methods and educational experiences employed in the training of rheumatologists vary from one national programme to another, according to traditions, rules and resources. Mutual recognition of titles, the free movement of labour and the striving towards for high-quality standards in medical care in Europe demand that efforts and progress are made to ensure that similar comp...