Fighting COVID-19: Enabling Graduating Students to Start Internship Early at Their Own Medical School

Assessing clinical competence of graduating medical students at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.

mediciNe & HealtH/RHode islaNd An Objective structured clinicAl Examination (OSCE) is a performance assessment that enables medical educators to evaluate the clinical skills and professionalism of future physicians. At the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University (AMS), there are multiple OSCEs in the first two years of the Doctoring course, in the Clinical Skills Clerkship and in three...

Quebec medical students strike at their own pace.

1278 JAMC • 10 MAI 2005; 172 (10) The executive director of the Canada Research Chairs program says it’s understandable that neither that organization nor the Université de Montréal were informed about a fraud investigation concerning a professor they hired to head a nutrition and metabolism lab. Eric T. Poehlman was already under investigation in the United States for falsifying data when the ...

Internship workplace preferences of final-year medical students at Zagreb University Medical School, Croatia: all roads lead to Zagreb

BACKGROUND Human resources management in health often encounters problems related to workforce geographical distribution. The aim of this study was to investigate the internship workplace preferences of final-year medical students and the reasons associated with their choices. METHOD A total of 204 out of 240 final-year medical students at Zagreb University Medical School, Croatia, were surve...

Student readiness to start their own business

Mentoring medical students by their Peers, Three Years’ experience at Shiraz Medical School

Mentoring involves two-way communication, learning and progress. Students participating in this process receive guidance from senior students and professors on how to deal with challenges more effectively and yield suitable methods as to progress. Shiraz University of Medical Sciences (SUMS) is one of the leading universities in the field of Mentoring. The main objectives of the Mentoring progr...