the year 2000 marked the official launch of the accreditation system for medical education. The first accred-itation project covered 41 medical schools from 2000 to 2004. During the first project, 32 schools received full accredita-tion, while 9 schools received conditional accreditation since they were new medical schools. Beginning in 2007, the second round of accreditation began, and it will...

BACKGROUND A recent systematic review reported that mild drinking showed beneficial effects on mortality. However, this relationship between alcohol consumption and mortality differs by race, and there are few studies on Koreans. In this study, we reviewed previous studies conducted on Koreans to investigate the association between mild drinking and mortality. METHODS Four databases (Medline,...

BACKGROUND Tramadol, a 4-phenyl-piperidine analog of codeine, has a unique action in that it has a central opioidergic, noradrenergic, serotonergic analgesic, and peripheral local anesthetic (LA) effect. Many studies have reported contradictory findings regarding the peripheral analgesic effect of tramadol as an adjuvant to LA in brachial plexus block (BPB). This meta-analysis aimed to evaluate...

BACKGROUND Intra-aortic balloon pump counterpulsation (IABP) is currently the most commonly used mechanical assist device for patients with cardiogenic shock due to acute myocardial infarction.Although there is only limited evidence by randomised controlled trials, the current guidelines of the American Heart Association/American College of Cardiology and the European Society of Cardiology stro...

original articles documenting interventional neuroradi-ology biannually. It was launched in 2006. Beginning in 2011, it began to be published only in English. Therefore, beginning in 2011, it began building the foundation for becoming an invaluable international journal in the field of neurointervention. According to the NLM Catalog of journals referenced in the NCBI Databases, the following tw...

The Korean Journal of Neurotrauma (KJNT) was first born in 2005 as the official journal of the Korean Neurotraumatol-ogy Society. It has continuously grown and expanded after the birth. Now, the KJNT has been published in English from 2014 and indexed in the PubMed/PubMed central, KoreaMed, and Synapse. And also, it has been recently featured in quality listed candidate of the National Research...

(page number not for citation purposes) 2016, Korea Health Personnel Licensing Examination Institute This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The year 2016 marked the 13th year of publication for the Journal of...

BACKGROUND Person-centered care is a holistic and integrative approach designed to maintain well-being and quality of life for people with dementia, and it includes the elements of care, the individual, the carers, and the family. AIM A systematic literature review and meta-analysis were undertaken to investigate the effectiveness of person-centered care for people with dementia. METHODS Li...

Recently, the Korean Journal of Urology (KJU) was indexed in Pubmed and Pubmed Central (PMC), two highquality international journal databases. Since its inception in January, 1960, this news adds further momentum to the history of the KJU. Of note, the KJU was first indexed in 1999 on KoreaMed to provide access to articles published in Korean medical journals. Soon thereafter, KJU was later reg...

A very warm welcome to you all! I am happy to extend warm greetings to all of you as the new Editor-in-Chief. This year marks the 35th anniversary of Epidemiology and Health, the journal of the Korean Society of Epidemiology. The Korean Society of Epidemiology was founded in 1979. In October 2009, on the society’s 30th anniversary, the Korean Journal of Epidemiology was relaunched as an open-ac...