Part-time training: will it lead to part-time consultant?

Is it time to rethink the MCCQE Part II?

Formed in 1912, the Medical Council of Canada (MCC) was given a “legislated mandate to assure patients that their doctors, wherever they are in Canada and whatever their medical specialty, meet the same demanding, consistent standards.” This was a time of variable medical training practices, and the new Licentiate of the Medical Council of Canada (LMCC) designation awarded to candidates who com...

Terminating a patient: is it time to part ways?

Many family physicians chose the specialty of family medicine because of the value placed on the therapeutic relationship between the patient and the physician. When that relationship is significantly or repeatedly challenged, family physicians feel it deeply, and it’s not always clear how best to address the problem. We have found that, when emotions are high, having a standardized process for...

Part-level Sequence Dependent Setup Time Reduction in CMS

This paper presents the idea of creating cells while reducing part-level sequence-dependent setup time in general cellular manufacturing systems (CMS). Setup time reduction in CMS has gained modest attention in the literature. This could be attributed to the fact that the fundamental problem in cell formation in CMS has been mainly related to material handling and machine utilization while setu...

Part time training in general medical specialties: is it any use?

It has recently been said that part time medical work "will have to be accepted by employers and colleagues as a norm."' The feared wastage of graduates who cannot work full time because of non-professional commitments is a matter not so much of unemployment (which is as low as 9% among women doctors)2 as of doctors finding themselves unable to train or practise their specialty of first choice....

Adding Valid Time - Part A