Academic family medicine--redefining academic

McWhinney's gift: academic family medicine.

360 CMAJ, March 5, 2013, 185(4) © 2013 Canadian Medical Association or its licensors Dr. Ian R. McWhinney was catalyst and witness to a half century of change that saw family medicine become fully professionalized as its own academic discipline. He died on Sept. 28, 2012. Born in the United Kingdom in 1926 and trained at Cambridge and St. Bartholomew’s Hospital (MB 1949), McWhinney completed mi...

Academic medicine.

Professor J. D. Campbell, E. Garrett*, L. A. Headrick, M. C. Hosokawa*, M. LeFevre*, D. R. Mehr*, D. Parker-Oliver*, E. Ringdahl*, W. Steinmann, J. Stevermer, D. C. Vinson*, H. A. Williamson*, S. C. Zweig* Associate Professor J. Belden, D. Cravens*, K. Everett*, A. B. Fitzsimmons, K. Y. Kane*, J. Kapp*, S. Kinkade*, K. Kochendorfer*, R. Koopman*, E. J. Lindbloom*, C. Reust*, D. Wen*, A. Whaley-...

Facilitating academic institutional change: redefining scholarship.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Academic institutions are typically resistant to change. Redefining scholarship is an important issue for academic health care institutions. This study examines the change process at institutions that have attempted to change the definition of scholarship. METHODS Five medical schools were identified that had recently redesigned their promotion and tenure systems bas...

[Academic medicine and care medicine].

En los últimos años, quienes hemos trabajado en los ámbitos de la salud, la educación y el desarrollo social hemos podido constatar la importancia creciente de la compleja relación que hay entre la medicina académica, la salud de la población, la medicina asistencial y los valores sociales. Todos ellos se nutren recíprocamente y unos dan mayor pertinencia a los otros. Esta trama ha recibido, a ...

Academic medicine in Singapore.