In 1921 Sir Berkeley Moynihan invited 28 surgeons to come to Leeds with the intention of forming a club of members 'in practice not associated with teaching hospitals'. In 1909 he had founded a similar club to unite surgeons practising in provincial teaching hospitals and the success of this club encouraged him in the new venture. These two Moynihan foundations may have been the first travellin...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether preoperative assessments carried out by appropriately trained nurses are inferior in quality to those carried out by preregistration house officers. DESIGN Randomised controlled equivalence/non-inferiority trial. SETTING Four NHS hospitals in three trusts. Three of the four were teaching hospitals. PARTICIPANTS All patients attending for assessment before ge...

BACKGROUND In July 2007, a large Canadian teaching hospital realigned its general surgery services into elective general surgery subspecialty-based services (SUBS) and a new urgent surgical care (USC) service (also know in the literature as an acute care surgery service). The residents on SUBS had their number of on-call days reduced to enable them to focus on activities related to SUBS. Our ai...

The Surgery Department of the University of Oklahoma College of Medicine is profiled in this article, including history, goals, opportunities, and demographics. Our research programs, clinical resources, teaching hospitals, and faculty diversity are reviewed. The local and national contributions of our faculty members and 212 chief residents who have completed our program are enumerated.

The new funding system for Australia's public hospitals has not been shown to be effective and is likely to fragment and undermine services that require cooperation rather than competition.

Responsibility for the organisation of postgraduate examinations in paediatrics will soon transfer to the new Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (which will award the MRCPCH). The whole philosophy of how and when to examine is currently under debate, so it is appropriate to review recent experience with the current clinical examination, the Membership of the Royal College of Physicia...

It is my pleasure to welcome you formally as clinical medical students at the Royal Victoria Hospital. All of you already will have been here long enough to realise that the successful metabolism of this hospital depends in large part on the integrative action of the main corridor. As you walk down the corridor you will meet your friends, and recognise all the different members ofthe hospital s...

BACKGROUND In an integrated method of education, medical students are introduced to radiology in their preclinical years. However, no study has been conducted in Pakistan to demonstrate an academic framework of medical radiology education at an undergraduate level. Therefore, we aimed to document and compare the current level of teaching duties, teaching methodologies, and teaching rewards amon...

BACKGROUND During the last three decades, ethics committees have been formed with a growing trend. These committees have a satisfactory and effective impact on the pattern of patient care and its performance. The medical ethics committee is considered one of the most active committees in hospitals, having the aim of providing necessary approaches for the optimal use of the findings in empirical...