graduate medical education is one of the stage of the continuum of medical education in iran. at present, near 5500 residents are being trained in 24 specialties and 21 subspecialties in 26 universities of medical sciences. based on a special act of national parliament in 1973, the iranian council for graduate medical education is responsible for supervision on the quality of graduate medical e...

LESS ISMORE Implementing a GraduateMedical Education Campaign to Reduce or Eliminate Potentially Wasteful Tests or Procedures The important role of training program directors to educate residents and fellows about the value of cost-conscious diagnostic andmanagement strategies is clear.1 Indeed, a suggestionhas beenmade that costconscious care should be added as a seventh general competency by ...

The gap between production and implementation of knowledge is the main reason for the suboptimal quality of health care. To eliminate this gap and improve the quality of patient care, journal club (JC) in graduate medical education provides an opportunity for learning the skills of evidence-based medicine. JC, however, continues to face many challenges mainly due to poorly defined goals, inadeq...

In January 2006, the inaugural Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Medical Education Summit was held to address key issues confronting the osteopathic medical profession, particularly the physician workforce, student recruitment, and the funding of postdoctoral programs. Building off of the draft statements from the first summit, the Medical Education Summit II addressed issues specifically related...

The MD degree is a broad undifferentiated degree attesting to general knowledge in medicine and the basic skills required for the practice of medicine. Essential abilities and characteristics required for completion of the MD degree consist of certain minimum physical and cognitive abilities and sufficient mental and emotional stability to assure that candidates for admission, promotion, and gr...

IMPORTANCE Nearly 1400 medical students enter preliminary surgical residency each year; placing some of these students into categorical surgical training is an important component of building the future surgical workforce. OBJECTIVES To examine the training outcomes of preliminary residents in a university and Veterans Affairs surgical residency and to test the hypothesis that characteristics...

BACKGROUND Undergraduate medical education is beginning to concern itself with educating students about professional attributes as well as about clinical knowledge and skills. Defining these characteristics, and in particular seeking the help of the students themselves to define them, can be a useful starting point when considering how to incorporate aspects of professional behaviour into the m...

The Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (hereafter the Mayo Foundation), the precursor to the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, was incorporated in 1915. The Mayo Foundation, which was affiliated with the University of Minnesota Graduate School, aimed to establish a higher standard for training medical specialists. Together, the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Found...

PURPOSE To assess current education, practices, attitudes, and perceptions pertaining to ethics and professionalism in medical physics. METHODS A link to a web-based survey was distributed to the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) e-mail membership list, with a follow-up e-mail sent two weeks later. The survey included questions about ethics/professionalism education, direc...

Bargaining with reading habit is no need. Reading is not kind of something sold that you can take or not. It is a thing that will change your life to life better. It is the thing that will give you many things around the world and this universe, in the real world and here after. As what will be given by this continuing education in the health professions, how can you bargain with the thing that...