After 1948 the Romanian higher education entered a period of important developments, controlled by the communist regime, which meant thathigher educationinstitutions autonomy was severely obstructed, while politicalpurges affected the teaching staff and students alike. Nevertheless, new types of higher education were introduced and new institutions of higher education and specializations were e...

Emergency medicine is a relatively new specialty area within medicine, however medical schools, students and standard setting bodies have recognised that learning emergency medicine is integral to the training of medical students. There are, however, significant problems with the delivery of emergency medicine teaching including low teacher numbers, severely limited teaching time and lack of su...

This quote comes from the 33rd William Arnold Conolly Oration given by Max Kamien in Melbourne, Australia, in 2004.1 Dr Kamien was a friend of the late Dr Bass, who had described his first venture into general practice this way. It is a feeling that all family physicians know well, sometimes even after many years in practice. All developing countries have struggled with a declining primary care...

— The adaptation of the traditional Engineering degrees to the European Higher Education Area creates many challenges in the implementation of recent educational paradigms. which has been teaching since 1964, and has been adapted to be started in the 2010/2011 academic year. This new degree includes a second year one-semester introductory course in electronic engineering, which has been taught ...

BACKGROUND The inclusion of family medicine in medical school curricula is essential for producing competent general practitioners. The aim of this study is to evaluate a task-based, community oriented teaching model of family medicine for undergraduate students in Iraqi medical schools. METHODS An innovative training model in family medicine was developed based upon tasks regularly performed...

OBJECTIVE To develop and validate an instrument for measuring knowledge and skills in evidence based medicine and to investigate whether short courses in evidence based medicine lead to a meaningful increase in knowledge and skills. DESIGN Development and validation of an assessment instrument and before and after study. SETTING Various postgraduate short courses in evidence based medicine ...

BACKGROUND An imbalance of physician supply by medical specialty has been observed in most countries. In Korea, there is a greater tendency to avoid surgical specialties and specialty choices in nonclinical medicine, such as the basic science of medicine. In this study, we identified factors affecting the specialty choice of physicians in order to provide a basis for policies to address this pr...

OBJECTIVE Physician job satisfaction is one indicator of the overall health of our health care delivery system. Excellent but dissatisfied physicians could decide to leave the practice of medicine or highly talented students could opt for different careers if the perception that medicine is not a fulfilling career exists. This study aims to investigate the level of course satisfaction, its rela...

Last year, graduates from MD-granting medical schools in the United States applied to an average of 23.7 family medicine residency programs and interviewed at 11. This year, applications were projected to increase again to 25.81 (a 57% increase since 2009). During this same time period, allopathic family medicine graduate medical education (GME) positions offered through the National Resident M...