The teaching and cultivation of professionalism have long been part of medical education and have had recent special emphasis because professionalism has been identified as a core competency by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. The author focuses on two complementary teaching initiatives that contribute to the development of professionalism in the academic environment: a...

OBJECTIVE To introduce the paper by Kuhn et al. "Informatics and Medicine: From Molecules to Populations" and the papers that follow on this special topic in this issue of Methods of Information in Medicine, which opens a debate on the Kuhn et al. paper's assertions by an international panel of invited researchers in biomedical informatics. METHOD An introductory summary and comparative revie...

A major component of a successful graduate education is the student's professional family developed throughout the graduate program. Not only important to the student are those directly guiding him or her, such as the advisor and graduate committee, but also those who directly or indirectly influence the student's competence, philosophy, ethics, outlook, and professional development in the chos...

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PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to assess the effectiveness of high-fidelity simulation for teaching root cause analysis (RCA) in graduate medical education. METHODS Thirty clinical anesthesiology-1 through clinical anesthesiology-3 residents were randomly assigned to 2 groups: group A participants received a 10-minute lecture on RCA and participated in a simulation exercise where a med...

Working with and through art in the context of mental health has become popular and quite well known amongst social workers, community workers, nurses, artists and teachers. Many seek art therapy skills, and agreater understandingof theuseof art inhealing. In parts of theworldwhere there is noprofessional art therapy training and no established art therapy profession, some may go on to call the...

employment of graduates is considered at national level as a a problem for the educational planners in diffrent countries. this is of great concern because not only the employment market is at the core of social and ecomomic development but also it gives individuals a social role to play through gainful employment. this article describes the problem, analyses the relationship between education ...