Aim: This article focuses on the gender-specific career differences of residents in their postgraduate medical education in Germany. In particular the structural obstacles female physicians have to overcome during residency are investigated. Moreover, the study examines the position preferences of male and female physicians in the hospital and in how far occupational self-efficacy corresponds t...

PURPOSE OF REVIEW Educators in anesthesia residency programs across the country are facing a number of challenges as they attempt to integrate blended learning techniques in their curriculum. Compared with the rest of higher education, which has made advances to varying degrees in the adoption of online learning anesthesiology education has been sporadic in the active integration of blended lea...

The residency program at Teine Keijinkai Hospital in Sapporo has successfully implemented a training philosophy that is focused on the development of clinical skills and critical thinking in Japanese residents. Several elements contribute to its success. The first and foremost is visionary physician leadership, beginning with the pioneers who implemented the philosophy, and continuing through t...

Global Health (GH) as a discipline emerged mainly in the last decade and is still a developing subject. Koplan et al. defined GH as ‘an area for study, research, and practice that places a priority on improving health and achieving health equity for all people world-wide.’1 Kickbushtermed it as ‘those health issues that transcend national boundaries and governments and call for actions on the g...

OBJECTIVE to analyze in detail the current situation of doctorate training in Nursing in Chile. METHODOLOGY through a historical and contextual analysis of the background to the development of postgraduate education in Nursing, especially at doctorate level. RESULTS aspects that limit development were identified in national institutionalism of the sciences as well as in higher education and...