Lower your career sights, deputy chief medical officer advises future students

The chief technology officer (

This paper presents a literature review discussing empirical as well as conceptual papers concerning the CTO – the Chief Technology Officer – his tasks, responsibilities and authority and his relations with other corporate functions. It further presents first results of a CTO survey conducted in the Japanese electrical engineering industry in the fall of 2006. Based on both, a set of propositio...

Motivation towards medical career choice and future career plans of Polish medical students

This longitudinal study aimed at investigating Polish medical students' career choice motivation, factors influencing specialty choices, professional plans and expectations. The same cohort of students responded to the same questionnaire, at the end of Year 1 and Year 6. The Chi-square, Mann-Whitney U tests and logistic regression were used in analyses. The results showed that altruistic and sc...

Leadership is the key to chief medical officer success.

Senior physician executives were surveyed in 1998/99 to ascertain that they see as their greatest value to their organizations. They believe that their most significant contribution is their accumulated knowledge and experience--both in medicine and management. This medical management perspective is considered the key advantage of serving on the senior management team and helping to shape the o...

The new Chief Medical Officer for Northern Ireland

www.ums.ac.uk Dr Michael McBride is the new Chief Medical Officer (CMO) for Northern Ireland. A graduate of Queens University Belfast Medical School, he also trained in St Mary’s at Imperial College London. His specialist interest in HIV/AIDS suggested early on in his career that he was not afraid of working in a challenging and ever changing field. I met with him to discuss his vision of the N...

Annual Report of the Chief Medical Officer 1999