Postgraduate Medical Specialization Alternatives to Specialty Departments

Postgraduate and career: Specialization and professional activities

Modernising medical careers and the birth of postgraduate specialty schools of medicine.

Professor W Ian McDonald, an ambassador for British neurology, a world authority on multiple sclerosis and a musician, died suddenly on 13 December 2006. He was a friend to many in all walks of life and was a valued member of the Editorial Board. We had made plans together for a series of articles in the Journal on music, medicine and the mind. His co-editor, Dr Jason Warren, has kindly agreed ...

Using medical specialty and selection criteria clusters to study specialty selection by Israeli medical students

BACKGROUND During their final year of medical school, Israeli students must consider which specialty to choose for residency. Based on the vocational counseling literature we presumed that choices are made by selecting from a cluster of related specialties while considering professional and socio-economic issues. METHODS Questionnaires distributed to final-year medical students at two Israeli...

Postgraduate Medical Education.

Regional postgraduate medical centres.

We wish to thank Dr. M. J. Pleydell, County Medical Officer, and Miss E. Richards, County Nursing Officer for Oxfordshire, for their help and encouragement with the project. We also wish to thank Dr. F. Hampson, director of pathology, and Dr. D. Robertson Smith, consultant haematologist, Royal Berkshire Hospital, for allowing the practice nurses to attend their department; also the matron and s...