Stamp Vignette on Medical Science

DEBATE causal description: moving beyond stamp collecting in political science

The articles by Kees van Kersbergen and Daniele Caramani constitute an impressive joint plea in favour of descriptive analyses within comparative politics. They also warn, less convincingly, against an alleged obsession of the discipline with variation that, according to them, does not do justice to the similarity of many cases. This response demonstrates that limiting the analysis to similar c...

Evaluation of vignette-type examination items for testing medical physiology.

Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination has now replaced the National Board of Medical Examiners part 1 examination as the initial step in medical licensure. The new examination format places an increased emphasis on clinical vignettes to test basic physiological concepts. Suggestions from a question-writing workshop were incorporated into cardiovascular items in a midcourse p...

[Medical rubber stamp: a legal necessity or an informal imposition?].

1 M.D., Professor of the Forensic Medicine, Medical Ethics, and Social and Work Medicine Department of Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 2 Ph.D. in Odontological Sciences Professor of Universidade Santa Cecília, São Paulo, SP, Brazil 3 Ph.D. in Preventive Odontology– Professor of post-graduation in Forensic Medicine of Universidade de São Paulo – USP, São P...

The story of a medical lifetime, told in a stamp.

CMAJ • OCT. 20, 1998; 159 (8) 911 Medical philately, the collection and study of stamps related to medicine, poses an interesting challenge because stamps’ medical significance is not always readily apparent. As well, many of the “doctors” they honour are not doctors of medicine. It is difficult to define what medical stamps are because they can depict people with a medical or scientific backgr...

U.S. budget. Democratic Congress begins to put its stamp on science.