CONTEXT Michigan State University College of Osteopathic Medicine (MSUCOM) has long maintained a preceptorship program involving community-based osteopathic physicians who voluntarily provide osteopathic medical students with early clinical experiences in family practice. OBJECTIVE To investigate the factors that influence osteopathic physicians to participate in the MSUCOM Family Medicine Pr...

purpose: this research aimed to survey the professional and non-professional information needs of the faculty members of ferdowsi university of mashhad. methodology: out of 664 faculty members in ferdowsi university of mashhad in the academic year of 2010-2011, 242 faculty members were selected by using stratified random sampling method. the data were collected by a researcher made questionnair...

BACKGROUND The Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada and the College of Family Physicians of Canada mandate that faculty members demonstrate they are evaluating residents on all CanMEDS (Canadian Medical Education Directions for Specialists) roles as part of the accreditation process. Postgraduate Medical Education at the University of Ottawa initiated a 5-year project to develop a...

With the competing pressures facing medical school faculty, teaching is no longer considered a top priority. For many reasons, both internal and external, patient care and research activities receive more recognition and financial support than teaching. Most physicians believe they teach well and are frequently correct despite their lack of formal training on the art and science of medical educ...

BACKGROUND Few researchers have examined the perceptions of physicians referring cases for angiography regarding the degree to which collaboration occurs during percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) decision-making. We sought to determine perceptions of physicians concerning their involvement in PCI decisions in cases they had referred to the cardiac catheterization laboratory at a major aca...

Educated in England, at the University of Durham Medical School and graduated in 1965. Obtained membership of Royal College of Physicians in 1968 and elected Fellow in 1993. Immigrated to Canada in 1976 and became a Fellow of Royal College of Physicians of Canada in1979. He is a full professor within the Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa and has been teaching at the University of Ottawa...

6 © Royal College of Physicians 2017. All rights reserved. Author: A consultant forensic physician and specialist in forensic and legal medicine, honorary consultant in emergency medicine, St George’s Hospital, London, UK; honorary clinical senior lecturer, Centre for Clinical Pharmacology, William Harvey Research Institute, Barts and the London, London, UK; president, Faculty of Forensic and L...