OUR SYSTEM OF MEDICAL TRAINING.

The state of medical training: refocusing our narrative.

medicine has long been seen as a vocation rather than a job and, while this is debated, it is clearly still a profession that comes with a lot of additional roles outside of the ‘normal’ day-to-day job. it is varied, interesting, challenging, reactive and proactive. it also gives a sense of ‘helping others’; the british medical association (bma) cohort survey found that 88% of medical staff rep...

How Our Current Medical Care System Fails People With Diabetes

M any randomized controlled intervention trials have demonstrated that lowering glycemia (1,2), LDL cholesterol (3), and blood pressure (4) will markedly benefit the complications from diabetes. Based on these data, the American Diabetes Association has recommended the following targets for glycemic, lipid, and blood pressure outcome measures, A1C 7.0%, LDL cholesterol 100 mg/dl, and blood pres...

Perceptions of preparation for further training: how our medical schools prepare graduates and the perceived factors influencing access to training.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the specific factors that graduates perceive to influence their success in obtaining primary training in a chosen field. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The New South Wales Medical Registration Board provided data on doctors who were registered to practise between 1995 and 2006. A brief, paper-based survey was sent to a random selection of 2000 doctors. MAIN OUTCOM...

An analysis of the medical specialty training system in Spain

In this paper, we analyse the medical specialty training system in Spain (the so-called "residency system"). In order to do so, we a) summarize its historical evolution; b) describe the five major architectural pillars on which the system is currently based; c) analyse the special contract of the specialist-in-training; d) discuss the three major challenges for the medical specialist training f...

Training of medical geneticists.