The fellowship match selection process: where has collegiality gone?

The fellowship match selection process: where has collegiality gone?

I am writing this editor’s page during the first week in May. This is about three weeks before match lists must be sent to the National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) for computer matching of applicants to cardiology fellowship training programs that begin July 1, 2001. I have been the cardiology training program director here at UCSF for almost 27 years, and I have seen all the combinations ...

Coronavirus: Where Has All the Health Economics Gone?

As the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic continues to unfold there is an untold number of trade-offs being made in every country around the globe. The experience in the United Kingdom and Canada to date has not seen much uptake of health economics methods. We provide some thoughts on how this could take place, specifically in three areas. Firstly, this can involve understanding the i...

Where has the air gone?

Arch Dis Child January 2011 Vol 96 No 1 Pneumorrhachis (air within the spinal canal) is rare and usually associated with other air leaks. Diagnosis is usually by high resolution CT scan. A 9-year-old boy had a 10-day history of persistent cough despite treatment with inhaled bronchodilators, systemic steroids and antibiotics before coming to hospital. Physical examination demonstrated good gene...

Where Has My Time Gone?

Time matters. In a networked world, we would like mobile devices to provide a crisp user experience and applications to instantaneously return results. Unfortunately, application performance does not depend solely on processing time, but also on a number of different components that are commonly counted in the overall system latency. Latency is more than just a nuisance to the user, poorly acco...

Where has all the money gone?