A quiet revolution in American surgery has occurred over the past 10-15 years, with the emergence of acute care surgery as a true specialty, and apparently the heir to general surgery. This new paradigm traces its beginning to certain core safety net hospitals in the U.S., such as Denver Health Medical Center, San Fancisco General Hospital, Detroit Receiving Hospital, and Grady Memorial Hospita...

Increasing number of air travellers in recent years and the emergence of multi-airport cities throughout the world has made the behaviour of travellers regarding the choice of the origin airport even more important. Analysis of this behaviour helps for a better future planning and development of competing airports as an important element of their demand prediction. In this paper, particular emp...

BACKGROUND Emergency medicine (EM) is a young specialty and only recently has a recommended medical student curriculum been developed. Currently, many schools do not require students to complete a mandatory clerkship in EM, and if one is required, it is typically an overview of the specialty. OBJECTIVES We developed a 10-month longitudinal elective to teach subject matter and skills in EM to ...

Background and Objectives: Family medicine is the most demographically diverse specialty in today. Specialty associations Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) urge residency programs to engage systematic efforts recruit resident complements. Using responses from program directors ACGME’s mandatory annual update, we enumerate recruiting. This allows us compare these state...

Anatomy has historically been a cornerstone in medical education regardless of nation or specialty. Revolution in the training of anatomy has been based on the lack of adequate instructors, cadavers and the general high cost of anatomy training. This has led to the abandonment of dissection by most countries in favour of other methods of learning. At the University of Nairobi, the need for more...

Oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS) is a surgical specialty involving procedures on the neck and head. OMS training program accreditation and evaluation requires reporting the surgical experiences of trainees. Current systems for tracking these experiences are based on coarse payment coding systems. To provide more granular training data, we are developing an ontology-driven surgical resident ...

Dr Sergio Vañó-Galván (junior dermatologist): Nowadays dermatology residents are highly esteemed by their peers at the hospital. The ratio of women to men is 4:1, according to the latest figures from the Spanish medical residency system, and most of these doctors come well prepared, having earned admission to one of the most sought-after specialties. Given such good grounding, it is unsurprisin...

The training of residents in abdominal wall surgery is a fundamental aspect of surgical training, representing globally 20% of its activity. In this paper, we analyze the current state of resident training in this kind of surgery in Spain, taking into account the broad spectrum it covers: general services, specific functional units, ambulatory surgery programs. To do this, based on the specific...

With the U.S. government calling for electronic health records (EHRs) for all Americans by the year 2014, adoption of an interoperable EHR is imminent in America's future. However, recent estimates for EHR implementation in the ambulatory care environment are just over 10 percent. This second part of a two-part study examines EHR acceptance factors in an academic-based healthcare system. Innova...