Valuing faculty as educators is essential for medical schools to fulfill their unique mission of educating physicians. The 2006 Consensus Conference on Educational Scholarship, sponsored by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Educational Affairs, provided educators seeking academic promotion with a portfolio-based format for documenting activities in five domains, using...

Methods: The study was a cross sectional observational analytic study of 250 interns from 5 medical colleges in Mangalore, Karnataka. Participants were chosen randomly from the intern’s registers of these colleges after obtaining IEC approval and permission from the administration of the respective colleges. Questionnaires were administered by interviewers and the data was collected and later a...

In all the medical Royal Colleges Fellowship is a higher grade than membership of the College, but in the great majority of Royal Colleges Fellowship is awarded by election to a minority of the members who have been judged by the Council of the College, or by a relevant sub-committee, to have achieved professional distinction. This is the arrangement in the Royal Colleges of Physicians, General...

been a profound change in the way doctors are perceived by the general public and by regulatory authorities. Until recently it was generally accepted that doctors who had completed an accredited examination and were working in a senior capacity were competent at their jobs and cared for their patients appropriately. The greater knowledge of patients about medical matters, together with the deve...

normal 0 false false false en-us x-none ar-sa background: assessing educational environment is vital in determining the success or failure of any institute. a positive environment leads to achievements of students in learning while a negative one would hinder their accomplishments. the aim of this study was to evaluate the medical students’ perceptions of their educational environment and to id...

Sir—Drawing ability could be disrupted by many neurological disorders, of which graphic neglect after unilateral brain damage (generally of right parietal cortex) is most frequent. In this disorder, patients draw preferentially on the right side of the paper, omit and deform objects on the left side, but judge their drawings to be complete. Graphic neglect can become especially evident in the w...

OBJECTIVE This study examined interventions by colleges in 2008-2009 to respond to students during mental health crises. METHODS Public (N=15) and private (N=25) four-year colleges and two-year community colleges (N=23) in Virginia were surveyed about academic policies governing responses to apparent mental health crises among students and how often they were invoked. RESULTS Procedures use...

OBJECTIVE To assess the knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding sexuality, high risk sexual behaviors and methods of contraception, among college/university students of Karachi, Pakistan. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional observational study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Higher Education Commission-recognized government and private colleges/universities in Karachi from 2005-2006. METHODOLO...

To identify where the quality research activity has been and is carried out in Korea, and to examine to what extents Korean medical colleges play leading roles in the production of international research papers, we investigated the publication productivity of Korean medical colleges and their medical departments as measured by the number of papers published in foreign journals indexed in MEDLIN...