Although females represent a high proportion of medical graduates, women are under represented at consultant level in many hospital specialties. Qualitative and quantitative analyses were undertaken which established female representation at all levels of the medical workforce in Ireland in 2011 and documented the personal experiences of a sample of female specialists. The proportions of female...

341. Heterogeneous regional distribution of nosocomial infections due to ESBL-producing Enterobacteriaceae in Germany: Data from the German National Reference Center for the Surveillance of Nosocomial Infections (KISS) Rasmus Leistner, MD; Christin Schröder; Christine Geffers, MD; AnnChristin Breier, MD; Petra Gastmeier, MD; Michael Behnke, PhD; Institute of Hygiene and Environmental Medicine, ...

In most countries, there are no specified protocols or guidelines for admitting dermatology patients and admission criteria depend on assessment and sometimes the whim of the dermatologist. Although the severity and extent of the disease are the commonest reasons for hospitalizing dermatology patients, sometimes other factors also operate to provide comfort to the patient. This study was carrie...

We present a mechanism to construct four-dimensional charged massless Ramond states using the discrete states of a fivebrane Liouville internal conformal field theory. This conformal field theory has background charge, and admits an inner product which allows positive norm states. A connection among supergravity soliton solutions, Liouville conformal field theory, non-critical string theory and...

BACKGROUND Rural areas of the United States are perennially medically underserved, and the state of Illinois is no exception. A recent survey showed that 75 of Illinois' 84 rural counties are primary care physician shortage areas. In response to this chronic physician shortage, the Illinois Rural Medical Education (RMED) Program was developed by the University of Illinois College of Medicine at...

This Essay describes the phenomenon of cultural bias in judicial decision making, and examines the use of testimonies and opinions of cultural experts as a way to diminish this bias. The Essay compares the legal regimes of the United States and Israel. Whereas in the United States, the general practice of using cultural experts in courts is well developed and regulated, the Israeli legal proced...

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center's internal medicine residency program was admitted to the new Education Innovation Project accreditation pathway of the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education to begin in July 2006. The authors restructured the inpatient medical service to create clinical microsystems in which residents practice throughout residency. Program leadership then mand...

This paper is intended as a report on some results of recent work in physical medicine and rheumatology in Switzerland. Since 1940 education in physical medicine, including medical hydrology and climatology, has been compulsory for all medical students. Thus there are chairs for physical medicine in all medical faculties; three of these are professorships, yet several institutes for physical th...

1Clinic for Stem Cell Transplantation, Center of Oncology, University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf, Martinistraße 52, 20246 Hamburg, Germany 2 Service d’Hématologie Clinique, Hôpital Hôtel-Dieu, CHU de Nantes, Place Alexis Ricordeau, 44093 Nantes Cedex, France 3Hematology and Bone Marrow Transplantation, Internal Medicine, Chaim Sheba Medical Center, 52621 Tel-Hashomer, Israel 4Department o...

Ford and Britting’s editorial in this month’s Journal of Hospital Medicine raises important questions concerning the use of nonphysician providers in hospital medicine. They focus primarily on the use of mid-level providers (MLPs), namely physician-assistants (PAs) and nurse practitioners (NPs), as a potential solution to the current physician workforce shortages in our field. While we acknowle...