SUGGESTIONS ON MEDICAL REFORM.

Mentoring in biostatistics: some suggestions for reform

Mentoring is routinely used as a tool to facilitate acquisition of skills by new professionals in fields like medicine, nursing, surgery, and business. While mentoring has been proposed as an effective strategy for knowledge and skills transfer in biostatistics and related fields, there is still much to be done to facilitate adoption by stakeholders, including academia and employers of biostati...

General practitioners for the next millennium: suggestions for medical curriculum reform.

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...

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.