Background and Design.The aim of this study was to show the role of having a physician in family on entering to the medical school. The study has been performed by a questionnaire, which were answered by the students who entered to medical school in the year 1998–1999. All of the entering class students were enrolled to the study. Gender, having physician in the family or among close relatives,...

Some years ago while we were serving as temporary advisors at the World Health Organization in Geneva, Dr A. S. Härö, Chief of the Planning Department of the National Health Board in Helsinki, Finland told me about an article he had written to celebrate an anniversary of his graduation from medical school. The idea of commemorating a milestone in one’s professional life by writing an article ab...

Challenged health systems are a motivation for health education reform. Although resources-limited areas cover our planet, sub-Saharan Africa has the highest disease burden, yet the lowest health-care provider and medical school density of any region in the world. Malawi is among the most under-resourced countries in the world. While much of the data focus on dental, medical, and psychiatric se...

Women make up an increasing proportion of students entering the medical profession. Before 1970, women represented 6% or less of the medical student population. In drastic contrast, nearly half of first-time applicants to medical schools in 2011 were women. However, the ratio of women to men is less balanced among graduates from surgical residencies and among leadership positions in surgery. Le...

1. Committee on Clinical Practice Issues in Health and Disease. The role and identity of physician nutrition specialists in medical schoolaffiliated hospitals. Am J Clin Nutr 1995:61:264-8. 2. McLaren DS. Nutrition in medical schools: a case of mistaken identity. Am J Clin Nutr 1994;59:96()-3. 3. Anonymous. Position of The American Dietetic Association: nutnition-an essential component of medic...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the effectiveness of the training-of-trainer courses given to medical school faculty members, and to ensure the standardisation of training.. METHODS The study comprised faculty members attending seven training-of-trainer courses held at the Ataturk University, Turkey, from November 2010 to May 2011. Tests were administered to the participants evaluating their level of k...

The publication in 1993 by the General Medical Council of Tomorrow's Doctors-Recommendations on Undergraduate Medical Education provided the first real opportunity for many medical schools to advance the introduction of the history of medicine into the undergraduate medical curriculum. While the University of Birmingham Medical School, was not one of the first to introduce the subject, it has b...

Procedural skill learning is usually unobserved during post graduate training. This study is an attempt to evaluate feasibility and acceptability of direct observation of procedural skills in a medical school in Northern India for postgraduates in Pediatrics. Eighty procedures performed by 15 trainees were observed by 9 faculty members. Seven of nine assessors considered direct observation to b...