W Otto1, A Mankertz2, S Santibanez2, H Saygili3, J Wenzel4, W Jilg4, W F Wieland1, S Borgmann ([email protected])3 1. Department of Urology, St. Josef Hospital, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany 2. National Reference Centre Measles, Mumps, Rubella, Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, Germany 3. Synlab Medical Care Service, Medical Care Centre Weiden, Weiden, Germany 4. Institute of Medical M...

At Southampton Medical School students in the third year of the course (the first clinical year) spend one morning a week in general practice. Discussion of patients' problems with students often encompasses ethical issues, and for some time we have been aware of our inability to provide any clear framework for an informed debate. Our students get some formal teaching in ethics, but not until t...

The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University is introducing a longitudinal integrated clerkship for third year students in the Primary Care-Population Medicine Program as an alternative to more traditional clerkship models. In developing the longitudinal integrated clerkship, program faculty incorporated a historical perspective of medical education, modern knowledge about students' dev...

1 DECEMBER 2011 healthcare financial management The Problem In mid-2010, University Medical Center (UMC), the clinical division (hospital and medical group) of an academic medical center, faced an eroding position and seemingly overwhelming obstacles to compete successfully in its region. Leaders identified five significant strategic challenges with seven competitive issues and realized that UM...

William T. Wickner, JoAnne Stubbe, Carlos B. Hirschberg, Teresa Garrett, and William Dowhan Department of Biochemistry, Dartmouth Medical School, Hanover, NH 03755-3844; Department of Chemistry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139; Department of Molecular and Cell Biology, Boston University, Boston, MA 02118-2394; Department of Chemistry, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY ...

OBJECTIVE To determine rates of publication and reporting of results within two years for all completed clinical trials registered in ClinicalTrials.gov across leading academic medical centers in the United States. DESIGN Cross sectional analysis. SETTING Academic medical centers in the United States. PARTICIPANTS Academic medical centers with 40 or more completed interventional trials re...