Clin Invest Med • Vol 23, no 1, février 2000 In looking at the title I was assigned, “The engine that drives us forward — or back,” I thought I would try to show that the Medical Council Qualifying Examination (MCQE) will not drive us back, although there is this potential in examinations. Dr. Dale Dauphinee (executive director of the Medical Council of Canada) and I started discussing this tal...

Neither the Accreditation Council of Pharmacy Education (ACPE) doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) program guidelines nor the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) guidelines for residencies mandate that training of doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) students and pharmacy residents coincide. As pharmacy moves toward expanded residency training at a minimum or considers mandated residency traini...

ing environment [6, 7] and ongoing efforts to develop new measures [8]. This rising interest made me wonder where teachers and teaching practice fit in the concept of a learning environment. Schronrock-Adema and colleagues [7], through their review of existing instruments, concluded that the domains of learning environment relate to goal orientation, relationships and organization/regulation. D...

33 The first successful medical schools in Wisconsin were located in Milwaukee: the Wisconsin College of Physicians and Surgeons, established in 1893, and the Milwaukee Medical College, established in 1894. By the end of the century, each school occupied an impressive building, with adjacent hospital facilities. St. Joseph’s Hospital was across the street from the Wisconsin College of Physician...

THE UNITED STATES MEDICAL LICENSURE EXAMINATION (USMLE) program provides a single pathway for the primary licensure of graduates of Liason Committee on Medical Education (LCME)accredited medical schools in the United States and Canada and all international medical graduates seeking postgraduate training and licensure in the United States. Graduates of accredited osteopathic medical schools may ...

Over the past decade, the move to recognise excellence in universities has been reflected in increasing attention being paid to university league tables. Without doubt, these have influenced the behaviour of universities, governments, funding agencies, academics and students. Hazelkorn (2010) illustrated this with the results from an international survey. Almost twothirds of higher education le...