OBJECTIVE To document the scope of the teaching and evaluation of ethics and professionalism in Canadian family medicine postgraduate training programs, and to identify barriers to the teaching and evaluation of ethics and professionalism. DESIGN A survey was developed in collaboration with the Committee on Ethics of the College of Family Physicians of Canada. The data are reported descriptiv...

Teachers have been teaching using traditional strategies and frameworks for generations. Faculty development is a planned activity aimed at improving the performance of departmental faculty members by focusing on improvement individual knowledge skills in relevant areas.1These include teaching, administrative, research, clinical skills.Continuous medical education praiseworthy path to keep educ...

BACKGROUND Medical school faculty are less enthusiastic about their academic careers than ever before. In this study, we measured the prevalence and determinants of intent to leave academic medicine. METHODS A 75-question survey was administered to faculty at a School of Medicine. Questions addressed quality of life, faculty responsibilities, support for teaching, clinical work and scholarshi...

To move the healthcare industry into the 21st century, nurses must become savvy in the use of informatics to provide optimal care to their patients. However, the relatively few formal nursing informatics programs that exist across the country are simply not adequate to meet the demands of both new and existing nurses. Informatics competencies must be incorporated into nursing curricula at entry...