We wish to thank Dr. M. J. Pleydell, County Medical Officer, and Miss E. Richards, County Nursing Officer for Oxfordshire, for their help and encouragement with the project. We also wish to thank Dr. F. Hampson, director of pathology, and Dr. D. Robertson Smith, consultant haematologist, Royal Berkshire Hospital, for allowing the practice nurses to attend their department; also the matron and s...

Thank you very much for inviting me to start off the discussions today on post-graduate medical education. Historically post-graduate education has always been grounded in the perception of the specific health care needs of patients. Therefore, I'm first going to address some of the more important health care needs of children, emphasizing the unmet needs which future pediatricians must be prep...

BACKGROUND Faculties face the permanent challenge to design training programs with well-balanced educational outcomes, and to offer various organised and individual learning opportunities. AIM To apply our original model to a postgraduate training program in rheumatology in general, and to various learning experiences in particular, in order to analyse the balance between different educationa...