National Fund for Medical Education

A national survey of medical education fellowships

PURPOSE The purpose of our study was to determine the prevalence, focus, time commitment, graduation requirements and programme evaluation methods of medical education fellowships throughout the United States. Medical education fellowships are defined as a single cohort of medical teaching faculty who participate in an extended faculty development programme. METHODS A 26-item online questionn...

Undergraduate medical student education: the case for a national curriculum.

Thirty-eight teaching hospital affiliated accident and emergency departments were surveyed by post to try to find if there had been any change in undergraduate medical student teaching over the past 10 years. Twenty-six departments replied. The results showed that although there has been an improvement in the teaching of A&E medicine to undergraduates in the past few years there are still some ...

Bengal Medical Retiring Fund

We republish, amongst oar extracts, a letter signed "Fiat Justitia," upon tlie subject of the Medical Ketiring Fund in Bengal. The writer complains of the Fund as a "source of incessant irritation to a great number of subscribers," and blames the Government for inaction in their behoof. He wishes the flame to be fanned and fed, " in order that the fund may be placed upon a better footing." We m...

Medical Retiring Fund

Medical Retiring Fund

present conditions of our service, and which even in the days of seniority was far from successful in its objects. Now that promotion, except partially to the administrative grades, is not regulated by seniority, all excuse for forcing their subscriptions from the members is at an end ; and it surely is not the part of a wise and just government to demand the pound of flesh from the subscribers...