in the last few years, medical education policy makers have expressed concern about changes in the ethical attitude and behavior of medical trainees during the course of their education. they claim that newly graduated physicians (mds) are entering residency years with inappropriate habits and attitudes earned during their education. this allegation has been supported by numerous research on th...

BACKGROUND With the increasing amount and complexity of medical information, medical schools are challenged with incorporating surgical subspecialty education, such as otolaryngology (OTO), into a time-limited curriculum. OBJECTIVES To understand the state of OTO education in US medical schools and to generate a discussion of the role of surgical subspecialty education in the medical school c...

introduction: while social media has the potential to be used to make professional and personal connections, it can also be used inappropriately, with detrimental ramifications for the individual in terms of their professional reputation and even hiring decisions. this research explored students’ and faculty members’ perceptions of the acceptability of various social media postings. methods: th...

Dying to know : public release of information about quality of health care. p. cm. " MR-1255-NT. " Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-8330-2891-X 1. Medical care—Great Britain—Quality control. 2. Medical care—United States—Quality control. 3. Consumer education—Great Britain. 4. Consumer education—United States. 5. Medical care—Great Britain—Evaluation. 6. Medical care—United States—Ev...

I n 2008, the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education began development of the Next Accreditation System, an assessment strategy based on residents’ achievement of specific milestones within defined competencies as they progress through training. Medical specialties were tasked with creating milestones specific to their training programs. Although similar competency frameworks were...

introduction. in order to improve planning, educational methodology, and evaluation in medical education, well-proportioned, exact and prospective programs are needed. without doubt, the main changes in medical education programs have resulted from researches performed in this area during the last decades. revision of medical education in iran began by the cultural revolution council by order o...

In order to improve the evaluation precision of education and training quality, a kind of quality evaluation model of combined medical education and training course (AHPPCASV) is put forward, which is a combination of analytic hierarchy process, principal component analysis and support vector machine. Firstly, AHP is used to construct the evaluation index body, and then the principal component ...

BACKGROUND Evaluation research is a form of applied research that scrutinises how well a particular programme, practice, procedure or policy is operating. Evaluation researchers use both quantitative and qualitative research data to construct a collective picture of the programme under evaluation. CONTEXT Medical educators need to provide information about a particular programme using the met...

(page number not for citation purposes) 2014, National Health Personnel Licensing Examination Board of the Republic of Korea This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Journal of Educational Evaluation for Health...