A new masters-level course, 'Medicine and the Arts" will be offered in 2014 at the University of Cape Town, setting a precedent for interdisciplinary education in the field of medical humanities in South Africa. The humanities and social sciences have always been an implicit part of undergraduate and postgraduate education in the health sciences, but increasingly they are becoming an explicit a...

INTRODUCTION There are very few opportunities for long-term, comprehensive postgraduate education in developing countries because of fiscal and human resource constraints. Therefore, physiotherapists have little opportunity following graduation to advance their skills through the improvement of clinical reasoning and treatment planning and application. BACKGROUND To address the need for susta...

Many epidemiological and clinical studies in Europe, especially in Eastern Europe and countries in transition, are of poor methodological quality because of lack of background knowledge in clinical epidemiology methods and study designs. The only way to improve the quality of epidemiological studies is to provide adequate undergraduate and/or postgraduate education for the health professionals ...

OBJECTIVES To provide the first comprehensive assessment of dermatology residency training in Canada based on the residents' perspective; to examine and elucidate trends in current residents' envisioned career paths and aspirations. DESIGN A national survey conducted in June 2004. PARTICIPANTS All Canadian dermatology residents. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Cross-sectional analysis of (1) satisf...

Academic medicine comprises education, research, and medical care, respectively provided by medical schools, research institutions, and teaching hospitals. Thus far, academic medicine has been unsuccessful in establishing, protecting, promoting, and improving the quality of care. Its role in that area should therefore be reconsidered. Quality improvement activities require constant planning and...

Over the past two decades, our internal medicine residency has created a unique postgraduate education in internal medicine by incorporating a formal curriculum in point-of-care cardiac ultrasound as a mandatory component. The details regarding content and implementation were critical to the initial and subsequent success of this novel program. In this paper, we discuss the evidence-based advan...

Quality and structure of postgraduate medical training and educational experiences in undergraduate and postgraduate training play amajor role in career decisions of young medical graduates [14], [19], [23], [28]. They consider structuredmandatory and challenging postgraduate training programmes delivered by experienced trainers with high training competencies as important factors of attractive...