With aging of the US population and continued success in prolonging survival of patients with cardiovascular disease, the prevalence of cardiovascular disease will increase exponentially in the next several decades.1 The anticipated supply of cardiovascular specialists will be insufficient to meet the demands of this increasing disease burden. A shortage already exists of cardiologists as a who...

In a bid to attract students amidst increasing competition within the sector, many universities claim that their teaching is "researchinformed". However, there is some disagreement amongst academics about what actually counts as research-informed teaching and therefore how it should be developed and delivered. Furthermore, whilst academic reputation is a key factor for prospective university ap...

The death of Colonel Paul Bush, which occurred on the 7th October, at the age of 73, deprived Bristol of a publicspirited citizen, and the medical profession of a popular and distinguished member. Throughout his life he devoted a great deal of time and energy to public services and to the promotion of various organizations apart from his hospital or private practice, and it was characteristic o...

Within living memory it would have been unthinkable for the manager of the England football team to be a continental European. Not only has that happened, but also every football team in the country has players from across the Channel. In the Middle Ages, the Archbishop of Canterbury spoke with a foreign accent on more than one occasion. In the future will the Presidents of the Royal Colleges d...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to assess: 1) vaccine hesitancy (VH) prevalence among French general practitioners (GPs) through the frequency of their vaccine recommendations, and 2) the determinants of these recommendations. METHODS Cross-sectional observational study in 2014 nested in a national panel of 1712 randomly selected GPs in private practice in France. We constructed a score of self-r...

OBJECTIVE To determine infant sleep instructions that hospital personnel in our community were giving to parents and actual positions practiced after the April 15, 1992 American Academy of Pediatrics recommendation for nonprone positioning. DESIGN Survey of mothers of infants </=4 months of age from November 1993 to March 1994 with follow-up survey of selected birth hospitals. SETTING A pri...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to evaluate treatment duration and number of appointments in orthognathic surgery using the surgery-first approach (SFA) and to evaluate the factors associated to these outcomes. METHODS This was a retrospective chart review of consecutively treated patients with SFA at a University clinic and a private practice setting. Treatment duration, number of appoi...

Babu Jogornath Sen, G.M.C.B., a leading practitioner in the town of Calcutta, has given a fair trial to the efficacy of Liq. Kurchicine in various forms of dysentery, and recorded the following rough notes, which ho has kindly communicated to me :? " In my private practice I have found kurchicine a valuable medicine in all stages of dysentery,?both acute and chronic, and also in periodic fevers...

BACKGROUND We sought to determine the expectations that graduates of one business of medicine program had upon enrollment and to ascertain fulfillment of those expectations after completion, as well as the extent to which participating in the program improved business skills and led to advancement in office practice or career development. METHODS A postal mail survey was conducted of graduate...

Therapy (WCPT) conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, two physical therapists from New Zealand were honoured with the WCPT International Service to the Profession Award1. This award is presented at most once every four years to physical therapists that have made an exceptional contribution to the profession at the international or regional level by way of excellence in the areas of practice...