Research in Korean medical colleges.

Scientific publication productivity of Korean medical colleges: an analysis of 1988-1999 MEDLINE papers.

To identify where the quality research activity has been and is carried out in Korea, and to examine to what extents Korean medical colleges play leading roles in the production of international research papers, we investigated the publication productivity of Korean medical colleges and their medical departments as measured by the number of papers published in foreign journals indexed in MEDLIN...

[Long for wonderful leadership in a new era of the Korean Association of Medical Colleges].

The Vietnam War and medical research: untold legacy of the U.S. Doctor Draft and the NIH "Yellow Berets".

PURPOSE From the outbreak of the Korean War in 1950 through the end of the Vietnam War in 1973, many American physicians were inducted into military service through the Doctor Draft. Some fulfilled their obligations by conducting clinical research in the National Institutes of Health (NIH) Associate Training Program (ATP) and later labeled themselves "Yellow Berets." The authors examined the hi...

An introduction to Chuna manual medicine in Korea: History, insurance coverage, education, and clinical research in Korean literature

The objectives of this study were to summarize the curriculum, history, and clinical researches of Chuna in Korea and to ultimately introduce Chuna to Western medicine. Information about the history and insurance coverage of Chuna was collected from Chuna-related institutions and papers. Data on Chuna education in all 12 Korean medicine (KM) colleges in Korea were reconstructed based on previou...

Genome patents: a case study in patenting research tools.