Twenty-first World Medical Assembly

Medical education for the twenty-first century.

I T r WELL TO REMEMBER Til AT THERE IS NOTHI G IMMUTABLE ABOUT THE present structure of academic medical centers, whi h is not to ay that the sub tance of what they do will change, but their configuration may be different. All of you are familiar with the Flexner report and it impact on American medical education, so I will not repeat what you already know. But I would remind you of the prelude...

Rethinking the World of Aid in the Twenty First Century

Many concerns can be raised about the effectiveness of current aid programmes to developing countries. The appropriateness of aid is particularly questionable when one considers the likely character of the challenges that the global economy will confront in 2025, as suggested by alternative global scenario exercises. This paper argues for urgent reconsideration of the focus of aid by Developmen...

Feeding the World: A Challenge for the Twenty-First Century

Into the Twenty-First Century: Medical History Goes Online

As of spring 2005,Medical History became the first medical history journal to make its complete archive available, free of charge, on the Internet. All future issues of Medical History will be freely available online at the time of publication. The journal will continue to be produced and be available in hard copy, and we hope that our readers will enjoy and make use of the flexibility of these...

Desiderata for controlled medical vocabularies in the twenty-first century.

Builders of medical informatics applications need controlled medical vocabularies to support their applications and it is to their advantage to use available standards. In order to do so, however, these standards need to address the requirements of their intended users. Over the past decade, medical informatics researchers have begun to articulate some of these requirements. This paper brings t...