Our Future Students: Who Will They Be?

District general managers: who will they be?

Twelve of the 14 English regions have now appointed a general manager: a nurse, two treasurers, a medical administrator, and eight administrators. The next step in the process is to appoint district general managers. Many districts jumped the gunthey probably did not realise that there was going to be a formal start-and have interviewed and designated (some privately) their general manager. The...

Future networks-on-chip; will they be synchronous or asynchronous?

The purpose of the talk is to share some observations and to moderate a discussion of certain issues related to the implementation of networks-onchip (NoC). Future systems-on-chip (SoC) will contain a multitude of different IP-blocks and in order to support the communication between these blocks in a structured way, packet-switched networks-on-chip are expected to replace today’s bus-based solu...

The future of cancer prevention: will our workforce be ready?

At no other time in our recent history has the need for cancer prevention been more urgent. Worldwide, cancer is poised to overtake heart disease as the leading cause of mortality (1). In the United States, where cancer mortality rates are gaining on those of heart disease (2), recent reports project serious shortages by 2020 of oncology health care providers available to treat and manage the c...

Who will teach the medical students?

Who will we be?: JAMA surgery !

T HE ARCHIVES OF SURGERY WILL BE OFFIcially renamed JAMA Surgery, beginning January 1, 2013; the other 8 Archives journals will be renamed similarly for their specialties. When I discussed this with the new JAMA editor, Howard Bauchner, MD, I was excited about the new name. We are uniquely linked to JAMA and this name change will broadcast that association even more vividly. The Archives of Sur...