BACKGROUND Medical school graduates in Spain must take a uniform national exam (called "examen MIR") in order to enter postgraduate training in a specialty. Its results offer a unique opportunity to rank medical schools according to this exam. OBJECTIVES We measured differences in the MIR exam results among Spanish medical schools and assessed the stability of the MIR-based rankings for the p...

BACKGROUND The location of postgraduate medical training is shifting from teaching hospitals in urban centres to community practice in rural and remote settings. We were interested in knowing whether learning, as measured by summative examinations, was comparable between graduates who trained in urban centres and those who trained in remote and rural settings. METHODS Family medicine training...

BACKGROUND Although a substantial number of studies focus on the teaching and application of medical statistics in China, few studies comprehensively evaluate the recognition of and demand for medical statistics. In addition, the results of these various studies differ and are insufficiently comprehensive and systematic. OBJECTIVES This investigation aimed to evaluate the general cognition of...

One of the concerns addressed by the Health Professions Educational Assistance Act of 1976 was the large and increasing influx of foreigntrained doctors. Statistics showed that in each year since 1970 the number of foreign medical graduates entering the country had exceeded the number of U.S. medical school graduates, that the foreign graduates constituted more than 20 percent of all physicians...