In September 2002, the Mayo Clinic National Conference on Medicine and the Media convened to consider the accurate, timely, and responsible reporting of medical news to the public. The more than 500 participants included medical and health journalists, scientific journal editors, physicians and other health care professionals, industry representatives, government officials, institutional public...

PREAMBLE We seek to understand and control the forces that govern our lives, to participate in shaping our futures. We are no longer confident that specialists and administrators-the staff of our social institutions-will govern them wisely and justly without our participation. Health services cannot be excluded from the demand for greater public accountability and participation. Health is too i...

background and purpose: the spices model has been proposed to be used both as a framework for quality improvement in medical education and as a guide for evaluation of curricula. the six strategies of spices are representatives of innovative approaches to medical education, and each one has been considered as a continuum. the present study models a theory-based questionnaire, based on spices, t...