Anatomy teaching by only medically qualified faculty is infeasible

Discounts For Qualified Buyers Only

The standard monopoly pricing problem is re-considered when the buyer can disclose his type (e.g. age, income, experience) at some cost. In the optimal sales mechanism with costly disclosure, the seller posts a price list, including a “sticker price” available to any buyer and a schedule of discounts available to those who disclose certain types. Unambiguous welfare implications of such a prici...

Medically qualified naturopaths and the General Medical Council.

Thomas Richard Allinson (1858-1918) and Joseph Stenson Hooker (1853-1946) both obtained the licentiateship of the Royal College of Physicians of Edinburgh in 1879 and were duly entered on the Medical Register, Hooker having qualified LSA two years previously. In their practice of medicine both came to favour "natural healing" and both came into conflict with the medical establishment. In 1892 A...

This is an author produced version of Improving teaching about medically unexplained symptoms for newly-qualified doctors in the UK: findings from a questionnaire survey and expert workshop

Teaching Radiological Anatomy

Editor Utilising postgraduate trainees to deliver undergraduate teaching is a logical and well established practice. Undergraduate cadaveric anatomy, once the exclusive domain of the surgical demonstrator, has in many institutions dissected itself out of existence. The rationale, if subjected to the same dissection, was in essence too many facts and too costly when software simulation is too se...

Teaching radiological anatomy

Human Anatomy has always been one of the core sciences in medical studies. If anatomical information is fundamental to medical studies, it is indispensable to the training of specialists in diagnostic medical imaging. Diagnostic medical imaging techniques include conventional radiology, ultrasonography, helical or multidetect computed tomography (CT) and magnetic resonance (MR). In this paper, ...