REFORM IN MEDICAL NOMENCLATURE.

Medical Liability Reform

Much of the medical liability debate has revolved around limiting the incentives for pursuing potentially costly litigation against physicians, hospitals, and other healthcare providers. States have experimented with refinement of the tort systems with measures such as damage caps, joint-and-several liability rules, and statute-of-limitation restrictions with mixed success. Proponents of such m...

Chinese medical service and medical education in urgent need of reform in the context of public welfare-based medical reform

After six years' medical reform, about 7.8 billion person-times of medical service has been achieved by 2014, and the number of persons covered by basic medical insurance for urban employees, basic medical insurance for urban residents, and new rural cooperative medical insurance exceeded 1.3 billion, of which the coverage ratio reached as high as over 95%, establishing the largest basic medica...

Medical Education and Curriculum Reform:

The purpose of this paper is to elaborate criteria by which the principles of curriculum reform can be judged. To this end, the paper presents an overview of standard critiques of medical education and examines the ways medical curriculum reforms have responded to these critiques. The paper then sets out our assessment of these curriculum reforms along three parameters: pedagogy, educational co...

The reform of medical education.

Medical Malpractice Reform in Three Southern States

Louisiana, Alabama, and Mississippi have adopted medical malpractice reform legislation in response to the three crises in medical liability insurance. In 1975, Louisiana adopted damages caps, created a patient compensation fund, and mandated the submission of claims to screening panels. In 1987, Alabama adopted damages caps and modified the collateral source rule, but these reforms were declar...