Pediatric hospital medicine programs have an established place in pediatric medicine. This statement speaks to the expanded roles and responsibilities of pediatric hospitalists and their integrated role among the community of pediatricians who care for children within and outside of the hospital setting. The statement is a revision of the policy written by Dr Jack Percelay in 2005 and reaffi rm...

1) UBC James Hogg Research Centre, Institute for Heart + Lung Health, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, Canada. 2) Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary Medicine, Infectious Diseases and Oncology, Nippon Medical School, 1-1-5 Sendagi, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8602, Japan. 3) Division of Respiratory Medicine, Vancouver General Hospital, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canad...

G. ZARFEL *, K. KRZIWANEK , S. JOHLER , M. HOENIGL , E. LEITNER, C. KITTINGER 1, L. MASOUD1, G. FEIERL1 AND A. J. GRISOLD1 1 Institute of Hygiene, Microbiology and Environmental Medicine, Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria 2 Department of Hygiene, Microbiology and Tropical Medicine, National Reference Centre for Nosocomial Infections and Antibiotic Resistance, Elisabethinen Hospital, Lin...

Hospital medicine is the fastest growing specialty in the United States. An interesting aspect of the rapid expansion of hospital medicine is the expansion of the field beyond the United States. Although the health care systems, regulations, and cultural norms in these nations differ, there are striking similarities in the profession's development. We performed a literature review to better und...

Po-Yuan Changa, Shao-Chun Lub and Chu-Huang Chenc,d,e,∗ Department of Internal Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, National Taiwan University College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan Vascular and Medicinal Research, Texas Heart Institute at St. Luke’s Episcopal Hospital, Hou...

In 1955, the first nuclear medicine division was established in Thailand by Professor Romsai Suwannik in the Department of Radiology, Siriraj Hospil, Mahidol University in Bangkok. In 1959 four years later, the second nuclear medicine division was established in the Department of Radiology, Chulalongkorn Hospital in Bangkok. The third nuclear medicine division was started in Rajvithi Hospital i...

Department of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital of North Staffordshire, Stoke-on-Trent, UK Department of Respiratory Medicine, Glenfield Hospital, Leicester, UK North West Lung Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester, Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester, UK Sheffield Thoracic Institute, Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Sheffield, UK Division of Therapeutics and Mo...

Received: April 19, 2010 Accepted for publication: October 21, 2010 From the Department of Emergency Medicine, Taipei Hospital, Department of Health, Taiwan Department of Emergency Medicine, National Taiwan University Hospital and College of Medicine, Taipei, Taiwan Department of Internal Medicine, Hsin Chu General Hospital, Hsinchu City, Taiwan Address reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. ...

1 Department of Endocrinology and Metabolism, Osaka University, Suita, Japan 2 Department of Nuclear Medicine, Kanazawa University Hospital, Kanazawa, Japan 3 National Hospital Organization Osaka National Hospital, Osaka, Japan 4 Department of Cardiology and Internal Medicine, Kitasato University, Sagamihara, Japan 5 Department of Medicine, Shiga University of Medical Science, Ohtsu, Japan 6 De...

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