Berend E. Westerhof, Jos J. Settels, Willem-Jan W. Bos, Nico Westerhof, John M. Karemaker, Wouter Wieling, Gert A. van Montfrans, and Johannes J. van Lieshout Edwards Lifesciences BMEYE, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Laboratory for Clinical Cardiovascular Physiology, Heart Failure Research Center, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Department of Internal Medicine, Sint Antonius ...

Today I would like to speak to you about the remarkable successes of academic medical centers to date, the significant problems that we are now facing, and the need for us to evolve into the next generation of academic medical centers. Academic medical centers have been remarkably successful in fulfilling our three missions of clinical care, research, and education. We graduate 17,000 physician...

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*Department of Medical Physiology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands, †Department of Cardiology, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands, ‡Department of Physiology, Academic Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, §Department of Cardiology, The Middlesex Hospital, London and Hatter Institute for Cardiovascular Studies, University College Hospital, London, UK an...

Background Resident selection committees must rely on information provided by medical schools in order to evaluate candidates. However, this information varies between institutions, limiting its value in comparing individuals and fairly assessing their quality. This study investigates what is included in candidates' documentation, the heterogeneity therein, as well as its objective data. Method...

1 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, 2 Department of Oncological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, 3 Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, Medical School, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, Unit...