In 1835 when the Foundation Chair in Anatomy and Physiology was estab lished, the Foundation Professor, Dr J L Drummond, had the entire responsibility for all pre -clinical studies. For this task, we today employ seven-professors, 25 readers, senior lecturers and lecturers, four research officers, two research assistants, 39 technicians, six clerical officers and one computer programmer, 84 peo...

'Creating an innovative department' as an objective implies further improvements in organization, function, and progression of a surgical unit active in patient care, research, and education. It is of prime importance to stress here the mutual benefits of patient care, research (the basis for future patient care) and education (the channel for training health care professionals in future patien...

introduction: efficiency evaluation of universities and faculties is one of the tools that help managers to identify the departments’ strengths and weakness. the main objective of the present research was to measure and compare the technical efficiency of shiraz school of medicine departments using data envelopment analysis (dea) technique. methods: this cross-sectional and retrospective study ...

Background It has been discussed whether emergency departments (EDs) reduce hospital admissions or not, and if the high turnover of patients results in higher readmission rates. Region Zealand was one of the first regions in Denmark to establish EDs, where all the acute patients for the hospital should be received: Køge and Holbæk (no beds, doctors employed by and working only in the ED), Nykøb...

Gabriel Taubin has graciously invited me to write this issue’s From the Editor column, giving me the opportunity to share my thoughts on what CG&A’s departments are, how they’re run, and why we hope you benefi t from them. In 2002, Jim Thomas, CG&A’s editor in chief at the time, asked me to serve as the associate editor in chief for departments. At the time, I wondered what I was getting myself...