Re: Jackson et al. – Medical education: Time to go back to school

Response to Jackson et al. (2012).

Is it "time to go back to school"?

It was time to go back.

I am a pediatric emergency physician in Calgary, Alta, and have been active in international health for more than 25 years. The last time I had been in Africa was in 1985 when I ran a district hospital in Lesotho in southern Africa. My husband and I had always wanted to return to the continent but career, children, and time got in the way. When those factors finally aligned, we were able to onc...

Medical education and re-entry: Finding ways to re-educate the physician who wants to come back to clinical practice

As physicians narrow their scope of practice, take on non-clinical roles or just take time off for personal reasons, a problem has developed for academic and accrediting bodies on how best to determine competency upon a return to a clinical role or expand the scope of practice. Currently in the US there are areas of physician shortages, and there is an estimated shortfall of 12,500–31,000 prima...

Time to Go Back to the Original Name

Almost 40 years ago, the first pathogenic human retrovirus was discovered and shown to cause a T-cell leukemia in humans (Poiesz et al., 1980a, 1981). Thus, a new paradigm was established showing that a virus can directly cause cancer in humans. At that time, the only other suspected case was the connection between the Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) and Burkitt’s Lymphoma and later nasopharyngeal car...