Background Resident selection committees must rely on information provided by medical schools in order to evaluate candidates. However, this information varies between institutions, limiting its value in comparing individuals and fairly assessing their quality. This study investigates what is included in candidates' documentation, the heterogeneity therein, as well as its objective data. Method...

1 Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, 2 Department of Oncological Sciences, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, Utah, United States of America, 3 Department of Integrative Biology and Pharmacology, Medical School, School of Biomedical Informatics, University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, Houston, Texas, Unit...

In the autumn of 1907, while the Volunteers were still in existence and not in a very satisfactory condition as regards numbers and efficiency, the formation of the Territorial Force in their stead was one of the topics of the day. I was then Brigade-Surgeon of the Portland Volunteer Infantry Brigade,, and hearing that the Director-General of Medical Services was about to address the medical me...

It is inevitable that the medical institutions and personalities of Dublin should occupy nearly the whole of the book, and this reviewer must confess almost total ignorance of the Dublin medical scene. It was not always so, for as late as the early years of the present century there was a close connection between the Dublin and Belfast Medical Schools. Most medical students in Queen's College, ...

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 ...