Thank you for publishing the article by Southgate and Pringle in the October issue (pages 854–855) on this important subject. As the person who has most recently held both these offices, I would like to describe two other roles of the President of the College which were not mentioned. First, the President traditionally visits most or all of the Faculties during the three-year term. This is a gr...

There are several veterinary faculties, technical colleges and other institutions in sub-Saharan Africa that offer formal or informal training in various aspects of veterinary science. Short, formal, structured, skills-orientated courses are not, however, readily available. Few people can afford the time and money to attend full-time postgraduate courses, but may need to acquire new knowledge a...

BACKGROUND In 2007, a first survey on undergraduate palliative care teaching in Switzerland has revealed major heterogeneity of palliative care content, allocation of hours and distribution throughout the 6 year curriculum in Swiss medical faculties. This second survey in 2012/13 has been initiated as part of the current Swiss national strategy in palliative care (2010 - 2015) to serve as a lon...

this study has been conducted with the aim of surveying the barriers and challenges of research in universities from the perspective of faculty members (islamic azad and payam-e nour, razi, medical sciences) in kermanshah done. questionnaire being used in this research is barriers and challenges from the perspective of research at universities retrieved from master thesis, it was based on liker...

BACKGROUND Following recent modifications of the Medical Licensure Act (ÄApprO) in the year 2009, palliative care was introduced as a compulsory 13(th) cross-disciplinary subject (Q13) in the undergraduate curriculum. Its implementation must have taken place before the beginning of the final year ('practical year') in August 2013 and has to be substantiated for the medical exams taking place in...

Developing and expanding the universities and increasing the admission of medical students did resolve the physician shortage, but it brought down the educational quality in return. To face this problem, the administrates needed to promote the quality of education which in turn needed accurate up to date information about conditions in different universities. Information about these issues was ...

PURPOSE This study examined two overarching topics: to what extent do faculties acknowledge class readiness, execution of lessons, and evaluation of the session; and what core content should be strengthened in a medical school faculty development program? METHODS In November 2012, 37 faculties completed a detailed survey on the needs of medical school faculty development programs. The 14-item...