Faculties celebrate first MJDF diplomates' ceremony

First diplomates board certified in the subspecialty of clinical informatics

The newly certified diplomates in the subspecialty of clinical informatics received notice of their board certification in December 2013, a development that will contribute to the major systemic overhaul that is underway in healthcare delivery. As leaders in the field, these subspecialists are expected to apply innovative informatics solutions within health systems and encourage interdisciplina...

Incidence of first ever stroke during Hajj ceremony

BACKGROUND The Hajj Ceremony, the largest annual gathering in the world, is the most important life event for any Muslim. This study was designed to evaluate the incidence of stroke among Iranian pilgrims during the Hajj ceremony. METHODS We ascertained all cases of stroke occurring in a population of 92,974 Iranian pilgrims between November 27, 2007 and January 12, 2008. Incidence and risk f...

Secret Ceremony

The 2008 Anatomy Ceremony: Essays

When asked to relate my experience of anatomy to the first-year medical and physician associate students at Yale before the start of their own first dissection, I found no better words to share than those of my classmates. Why speak with only one tongue, I said, when you can draw on 99 others? Anatomical dissection elicits what our course director, Lawrence Rizzolo, has called a "diversity of e...

Ceremony Design and Analysis

The concept of ceremony is introduced as an extension of the concept of network protocol, with human nodes alongside computer nodes and with communication links that include UI, human-to-human communication and transfers of physical objects that carry data. What is out-of-band to a protocol is in-band to a ceremony, and therefore subject to design and analysis using variants of the same mature ...