Clinical practice of medical school faculties

Homepages of German medical faculties – an overview

INTRODUCTION The Internet represents a central communication medium for patients and physicians. Some national information is available regarding the design of physicians' homepages and patient requirements regarding homepages of physicians in private practice. To date, no data are available for homepages of medical faculties and their users' needs. METHODS In 2008 the homepages of the 36 Ger...

Promotion and tenure of women and minorities on medical school faculties. The American College of Physicians.

T he moral and public health imperatives to increase the participation of women and minorities in medicine have been underscored in many recent reports and studies (l-7). An essential component of this process will be the number and visibility of women and minorities in leadership positions in academic medicine. By example and by design, leaders from these groups will influence institutional po...

Medical practice in a public school.

Predictors of a positive attitude of medical students towards general practice – a survey of three Bavarian medical faculties

OBJECTIVE Germany is witnessing an increasing shortage of general practitioners (GPs). The aim was to determine predictors of the job-related motivation of medical students of three medical faculties with different institutionalisation of general practice as an academic discipline. METHODS Medical students were surveyed with a standardised questionnaire about their attitudes towards general p...

Medical Gerontology in Clinical Practice