Correspondence to Professor Nicholas Pavlidis; [email protected] Medical oncology is a relatively young specialty. However, it is old enough to have a history. That history is one of diversity between countries in the speed with which medical oncology has been recognised as a distinct specialty and in the provision made for specialist education. As part of the multidisciplinary team that cares for ...

OBJECTIVE Health informatics has growing importance in clinical practice with successive General Medical Council recommendations. However, prior data suggest that undergraduate medical education largely neglects this area. An up-to-date, UK-wide view of health informatics training in medical schools is required. DESIGN An online survey was developed using current guidance and recommendations ...

BACKGROUND Offshore medical schools are for-profit, private enterprises located in the Caribbean that provide undergraduate medical education to students who must leave the region for postgraduate training and also typically to practice. This growing industry attracts many medical students from the US and Canada who wish to return home to practice medicine. After graduation, international medic...

AIMS Different approaches to performance-oriented allocation of resources according to teaching quality are currently being discussed within German medical schools. The implementation of these programmes is impeded by a lack of valid criteria to measure teaching quality. An assessment of teaching quality should include structural and procedural aspects but focus on learning outcome itself. The ...

Background: Achieving a desirable clinical education requires continuous assessment of the current situations in clinical education and identifying the strengths and weaknesses. This study aimed to assess the strengths and weaknesses of the clinical education fields. Methods: This is a cross-sectional and descriptive study in which the strengths and weaknesses of clinical education settings wer...

There is an increasing demand for high-quality experiential placements for pharmacy students. As a result, pharmacy schools across Canada are confronted with the need to find innovative ways to expand experiential educational rotations. Near-peer teaching is one model with the potential to address this issue. Near-peer teaching involves the provision of learning support to junior students by th...

The Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Reproductive Sciences at the Yale School of Medicine hosted a daylong continuing medical education (CME) symposium titled "Health and Medicine for Women: A Multidisciplinary, Evidence-Based Review of Mid-Life Health Concerns" in September 2010. A number of speakers discussed current research on hormone replacement therapy (HRT) and re-evaluated the ...