Society challenges the medical schools

Challenges of Measuring a Faculty Member Activity in Medical Schools

BACKGROUND One of the features of Mission Based Management is measuring the activities of faculty members and departments and their contributions to the school's mission. As it is important to assess the school's readiness for such a system, in this study we assessed the view points of Tehran Medical School's department chairs about faculty members' activities. METHODS We used focus group tec...

challenges of measuring a faculty member activity in medical schools

The missions of medical schools: the pursuit of health in the service of society

Mission statements and role documents of medical schools in the United Kingdom, United States, Canada and Australia have been examined on their Internet Web sites and categorised in purpose, content and presentation. The format and content are highly variable, but there is a common vision of three integral roles, namely, education, advancement of knowledge and service to society. Other frequent...

Closing the attainment gap in Scottish schools: Three challenges in an unequal society

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The Liaison Society for Ethics Committees of Medical Schools in Japan.

There are 80 medical schools in Japan. Each medical school has established independently one ethics committee based upon their own ideas about the purposes, composition of membership, and functions. Some committees are concerned only with ethical evaluations of biomedical research in human subjects, but the majority function similarly to the hospital ethics committee; the healthcare ethics comm...