Postgraduate Education in the South-West

Postgraduate Medical Education in the South West

Over a century ago, as a Lecturer in Medicine and Pathological Anatomy, Edward Long Fox had sound ideas about medical education in advance of his time. He took a personal interest in his pupils, guiding their studies, frequently asking them to his home, and he sometimes gave them standard works on medicine. He himself tried to keep up-to-date, even reading books and journals whilst in his carri...

Postgraduate palliative care education: evaluation of a South African programme.

AIM We aimed to assess the postgraduate palliative care distance education programme of the University of Cape Town (UCT) in terms of its perceived ability to influence palliative care delivery. METHODS A mixed-methods approach, consisting of two surveys using open-ended and multiple-choice options, was conducted from January to December 2007 at the UCT School of Public Health and Family Medi...

Postgraduate education in rheumatology.

The history of postgraduate medical education at the West London Hospital.

FOR the writing of a general history of postgraduate medical education, the staff of the West London Hospital very kindly made available the original records of the West London Postgraduate College. These records proved to be complete, in the form of Minute and Account Books and a collection of various papers. The Minutes, although kept in books marked 'Medical Staff Committee' and 'College Com...

Leadership in postgraduate medical education.

their core PG 1–3 training. Although Dr. Kuhn’s suggestions have merit, our past history suggests that attempting to employ the CA3 year to develop perioperative specialization is likely not to be successful. Conversely, our internal medicine colleagues routinely direct individuals into 2and 3-yr fellowships after completion of a 3-yr internal medicine residency. By restructuring the training c...