BACKGROUND The General Medical Council expects UK medical graduates to gain some statistical knowledge during their undergraduate education; but provides no specific guidance as to amount, content or teaching method. Published work on statistics teaching for medical undergraduates has been dominated by medical statisticians, with little input from the doctors who will actually be using this kno...

With the introduction of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) junior doctor’s working hours have been reduced and working patterns have changed.1 The introduction of ‘EWTD-compliant’ rotas has led to concerns that training may be affected both by less clinical exposure and by reduced ability to attend teaching sessions.2 This is of particular importance at a time when UK medical training ...

OBJECTIVE To assess attitudes about career progress, resources for career development, and commitment to academic medicine in physician faculty at an academic medical center who spend more than 50% of their time in clinical care. DESIGN Faculty survey. SETTING Academic medical center and associated Veterans Affairs medical center. RESULTS A total of 310 physician faculty responded to the ...

The applicant-to-acceptance ratio in the nation's 127 medical schools has slowly but steadily declined during the last decade to 1.7:1 (60.5% acceptance rate) for the 1987-1988 academic year. The 28,123 applicants in this academic year represent a decrease of 3200 applicants from the previous year. The decline in the number of applicants is even more striking because it occurred despite the wel...

BACKGROUND A significant number of Lebanese medical graduates have emigrated from Lebanon. The objective of this study was to evaluate the hypothesis that the repatriation of Lebanese physicians educated abroad has contributed to the international emigration of recent Lebanese medical graduates. METHODS We analyzed the demographic and educational characteristics and the year of registration o...

Rapid advancements in hardware, software, and connectivity are helping to shorten the times needed to develop computer simulations for science education. These advancements, however, have not been accompanied by corresponding theories of how best to design and use these technologies for teaching, learning, and testing. Such design frameworks ideally would be guided less by the strengths/limitat...

B and the -Dependent arlRS and yabJ-spoVG Loci Affect Capsule Formation in Staphylococcus aureus Stefan Meier, Christiane Goerke, Christiane Wolz, Kati Seidl, Dagmar Homerova, Bettina Schulthess, Jan Kormanec, Brigitte Berger-Bächi, and Markus Bischoff* Institute of Medical Microbiology, University of Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland; Institute for Medical Microbiology and Hygiene, University Hospit...