Training in Physical Medicine-Looking Ahead: President's Address.

Beyond postgraduate training.

We are now looking beyond postgraduate training which ends when junior doctors attain consultant status. Medical education is open-ended. It is a continuum which extends from undergraduate through postgraduate or vocational training to continuing medical education for career, or permanent, grades. In his 'President's Review' published last year in the Proceedings of the Royal College of Physici...

President's page: convocation address: the art of medicine.

Looking at Globalization of English in the Context of Internationalism

The present study is an attempt to provide a current synopsis of World Englishes within globalized communities, as well as theoretical and applied feasibility of global linguistic features of English as an International Language (EIL). To do so, first, three main reactions against the spread of English by scholars around the world are discussed. Then, the possibility of describing and teaching ...

Residency programmes in Singapore-challenges ahead.

1Graduate Medical Education Offi ce, SingHealth Residency Address for Correspondence: Dr Lim Boon Leng, Designated Institutional Offi cial, SingHealth Residency, No. 2 Jalan Bukit Merah, Block 1, Level 1, Singapore 169547. Email: [email protected] Transitioning from the specialist training system of the United Kingdom (UK) to the Residency system of the United States of America, Singapor...

Looking at Full Looking Ahead

Haralick and Elliott's full looking ahead algorithm [4] was presented in the same article as forward checking, but is not as commonly used. We give experimental results which indicate that on some types of constraint satisfaction problems, full looking ahead outperforms forward checking. We also present three new looking ahead algorithms, all variations on full looking ahead, which were designe...