Surgical training based on the Halstedian principle of apprenticeship has not really changed for over a century now. Educationists endeavor constantly to reduce the time taken for students/trainees to achieve competency while meeting safety standards. This is due to the constraints of time, economics, facilities, teachers, regulations, governance and the need to fill manpower gaps in the health...

One of the most serious issue with current BCI systems is their lack of reliability and poor performances. These poor performances are due in part to the imperfect signal processing algorithms used, which are not yet able to extract robustly a relevant information from EEG signals despite the various noise sources, the signal non-stationarity and the limited amount of data available. However, t...

small bowel had been a no man's land, inaccessible by direct endoscopic examination until the new millennium. However , an innovative scientific advancement changed the perspectives of small bowel evaluation with the introduction of small bowel video capsule endoscopy (VCE) by GIVEN Imaging (Yoqneam, Israel) in 2001. We were introduced to the VCE during the Asian Pacific Digestive Week 2000 in ...

India has the highest number of medical colleges in the world and consequently the highest number of medical teachers. The unprecedented growth of medical institutions in India in the past two decades has led to a shortage of teachers and created a quality challenge for medical education. In recent years, though medical advances have been understood and adopted by many institutions, the same is...

In the last few decades, it has been continuously stressed that the significance that mental disorders have for patients and society should be acknowledged. This is due to both the elevated frequency of such disorders and the social and economic burden they represent.1,2 Generalised acceptance of the fact that there are elevated pre-adult rates of these pathologies has been especially slow. Chi...

Given the increased attention paid to the development of arts in healthcare settings, the need for a formalised training framework to enable artists to work comfortably and safely in healthcare settings has become pressing. This paper sets out a review of literature and best practice regarding the training of professional artists wishing to work in healthcare settings. The authors' research con...

Professional and accreditation organizations have endorsed medical ethics as a fundamental component of education for family medicine trainees. Yet various obstacles combine to work against the continuation of formal medical ethics education beyond medical school and into residency training. This article reviews the current consensus on the scope and objectives of medical ethics education in th...

VOLUME 46 • NUMBER 6 • JUNE 2015 The primary goal of dental education is to train dental professionals who can competently address a wide range of issues in oral health care and independently practice evidence-based comprehensive dentistry aimed at improving the health of society.1 Competency-based education as a philosophy has widely been adopted by dental schools worldwide for both undergradu...

make career decisions during their training be improved? Experience elsewhere suggests that unless such support is developed to meet the specific requirements of doctors and medical students, it is unlikely to achieve all its objectives. This NICEC Briefing summarises the key findings from a research study that set out to find out exactly what these requirements were and how best they might be ...