AAMC COMMENTS ON SECTION 223 LIMITS/ FINAL LIMITS RELEASED FIRST CONCURRENT BUDGET RESOLUTION PASSED BY CONGRESS MAJOR HEALTH DEREGULATION BILL INTRODUCED IN HOUSE SENATE HEARINGS HELD ON ASSISTANCE TO FINANCIALLY DISTRESSED HOSPITALS COMBINED CATASTROPHIC/ CONSUMER CHOICE BILL INTRODUCED MEDICARE POLICY ON JOINT NURSING EDUCATION COSTS REVERSED REVISED MEDICARE HOSPITAL CONDITIONS OF PARTICIPA...

OBJECTIVE This study aimed to establish documentation standards for medical education activities, beyond educational research, for academic promotion consistent with principles of excellence and scholarship. METHODS In 2006 a Consensus Conference on Educational Scholarship was convened by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Group on Education Affairs (GEA) to outline a set of ...

OBJECTIVES To assess knowledge, attitude and practices of first aid measures in undergraduate students of Karachi. METHODS A cross-sectional study was carried out at six colleges of Karachi, three of which were medical colleges and three non-medical colleges. Knowledge was assessed regarding various emergency situations with the help of a questionnaire. The target population size was 460, bas...

Social anxiety is a psychological disorder affected by cognitive aspects of person. The aim of study was to investigate the role of informational, normative, and avoidance identity styles in predicting the variance of social anxiety amongst Iranian medical science students. Using stratified sampling method, one hundred and twenty students were selected from each of the colleges of medicine, pha...

Learning communities (LCs) have increasingly been incorporated into undergraduate medical education at a number of medical schools in the United States over the past decade. In an Association of Medical Colleges survey of 140 medical schools, 102 schools indicated that they had LC (described as colleges or mentorship groups; https://www.aamc.org/initiatives/cir/425510/19a.html). LCs share an ov...

Last month, when India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) arrested Ketan Desai, the president of the Medical Council of India (MCI) and president-elect of the World Medical Association, for allegedly accepting a bribe of 20 million Indian rupees from the vice-president of a medical college and hospital in the Punjab state, few in the country’s medical community were surprised. Like the cou...

Problem based learning, originally introduced in the Medical School at Mc-Master University in Canada in the late 1960s, and is now being used as a learning method in many medical schools in the United Kingdom and worldwide. Problem based learning have been adapted in many medical colleges of Nepal be used either as the mainstay of an entire curriculum or for the delivery of individual courses....

OBJECTIVE To determine the trends of academic misconduct in undergraduate students of different private and government section medical institutes. METHODOLOGY This cross sectional study was conducted at three medical colleges of Karachi, Pakistan. The students were evaluated by giving a self reported questionnaire containing various questions assessing their educational dishonesty and cheatin...

INTRODUCTION There is little disagreement among historians of British medicine that between 1858, when the Medical Act reached the statute books, and 1900, the profession underwent profound changes. In contrast to the pluralistic structure of the first half of the nineteenth century, the profession greeted the new century in corporate unity. There was still considerable diversity of income amon...