AIM To asses if the level of intention to engage others in academic transgressions was comparable among medical students from five schools from neighboring Southern-European countries: Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Macedonia; and medical students from western EU studying at Split, Croatia. METHODS Five medical schools were surveyed in 2011, with ≥87% of the targeted population sampled ...

BACKGROUND This study evaluates the impact of a new 'Preparation for Internship' (PRINT) course, which was developed to facilitate the transition of University of New South Wales (UNSW) medical graduates from Medical School to Internship. METHODS During a period of major curricular reform, the 2007 (old program) and 2009 (new program) cohorts of UNSW final year students completed the Clinical...

BACKGROUND Our obstetrics and gynaecology undergraduate teaching module allocates 40-50 final year medical students to eight teaching hospital sites in the West Midlands region. Based on student feedback and concerns relating to the impact of new curriculum changes, we wished to objectively assess whether the educational environment perceived by students varied at different teaching hospital ce...

1 Laboratory of Immunobiology, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA 2 Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA 3 Harvard Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA 4 T Cell Signalling Laboratory, Department of Pathology, Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK *Correspondence: [email protected]...

PROBLEM AND BACKGROUND In 1998, the University of California San Diego (UCSD) was selected as one of four National Centers of Leadership in Academic Medicine (NCLAM) to develop a structured mentoring program for junior faculty. METHOD Participants were surveyed at the beginning and end of the seven-month program, and one-four years after. The institution provided financial information. Four p...

1) Chiba Prefectural Serum Institute, Chiba 2) Nagano Research Institute for Health and Pollution, Nagano 3) National Institute of Health, Tokyo 4) National Institute of Health, Nongtabri 5) Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo 6) Department of Hygiene and Public Health, Nippon Medical School, Tokyo 7) Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang...

Mika Akizuki*, Kazue Nakagawa, Tatsuya Kato, Tsuyoshi Ogata and Yoshikazu Nakamura Ibaraki Prefecture Itako Public Health Center, Ibaraki 311-2422, Ibaraki Prefecture Tsuchiura Public Health Center, Ibaraki 300-0812, Ibaraki Prefecture Ryugasaki Public Health Center, Ibaraki 301-0822, Ibaraki Prefecture Tsukuba Public Health Center, Ibaraki 305-0035 and Department of Public Health, Jichi Medica...