Background The current medical educational system in Japan was established more than 60 years ago.1 Reforms introduced by the Japanese were influenced by the Allied Forces and the US educational system in the 50s and 60s. Currently, Japanese medical education is a six-year program that starts immediately after high school. The curriculum consists of general education for first two years; pre-cl...

in today's world, quality improvement of basic medical education is a must for training physicians who are able to meet the growing health needs of our society. one way for quality assurance in higher education including medical education is to develop a system of accreditation which has been in medical education authorities' constant focus recently. this article is a review of national accredi...

background the development of drug delivery systems has improved the therapeutic and toxic properties of existing drugs in therapy. microemulsion systems are novel vehicles for drug delivery, which have been developed in recent years. these systems are currently of interest to the pharmaceutical scientist because of their considerable potential to act as drug delivery vehicles by incorporating ...

a Geo-resources Laboratory, associated Unit to CNRST (URAC42), Department of Earth Sciences, Faculty of Sciences and Technology Guéliz, Cadi Ayyad University, Abdelkarim Elkhattabi Avenue, Gueliz, P.O. Box 549, Marrakech, Morocco b Department of Geography, University of Ottawa, Ottawa (Ontario), Canada K1N 6N5 c HydrISE, Institut Polytechnique LaSalle Beauvais, 19 rue Pierre Waguet, F-60026 Bea...

INTRODUCTION In 2006, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) issued a recommendation that medical schools increase the supply of physicians by 30% to meet the patient needs of the new millennium. OBJECTIVE To provide financial analysis of the cost of increasing class size. METHODS To determine the financial consequences of increasing medical student enrollment and in the absenc...

PURPOSE To determine the frequency of severe action decisions made by the Liaison Committee on Medical Education (LCME) in two time periods and to speculate about contributing factors for any change. METHOD Two study periods were reviewed. Study Period 1 (1996-2000) was before a 2002 reformatting of the standards; Study Period 2 (2004-2009) was after that reformatting. The frequency of severe...