Significantly, the school has already forged strong partnerships with communities in the Illawarra and Shoalhaven districts, as was clear from the many community leaders present at the ceremony. The GSM’s primary goal is to graduate doctors committed to serving in regional, rural and remote Australia. In the words of the university’s Vice-Chancellor, the school’s model is designed “to address t...

In January 2006, the inaugural Osteopathic Heritage Foundation Medical Education Summit was held to address key issues confronting the osteopathic medical profession, particularly the physician workforce, student recruitment, and the funding of postdoctoral programs. Building off of the draft statements from the first summit, the Medical Education Summit II addressed issues specifically related...

am honored to humbly take on the position as the Editor-in-Chief for this new open access peer reviewed journal, Diabetic Foot & Ankle. My main inspiration for developing this type of a journal was to bring together the knowledge, expertise and research that are emerging on this subject in a single forum and thus to support an exchange between colleagues around the world who have an interest in...

Stimulated emission depletion (STED) nanoscopy has emerged as a powerful far-field technique for subdiffraction optical imaging and is extensively used in the life sciences to investigate different protein species. In many cases, however, the relative assembly of two (or more) proteins is of interest and needs to be determined with nanometric resolution. Meanwhile, STED has also found its way i...

zur nichtinvasiven Evaluation der Gewebevitalität darstellen. The goal of this work was to provide techniques and hardware for 23 Na MRI of the human brain, heart and muscle in a clinical scanner at 1.5 T. For this purpose, radiofrequency (RF) coils were developed and a transmit/receive switch was adapted to 16.84 MHz. A 3D radial gradient echo (GRE) sequence was implemented, with a minimum ech...

I am pleased to introduce you to the Korean Journal of Radiology, a quarterly journal published by the Korean Radiological Society. Two years ago, the Board of Directors of the Korean Radiological Society decided to embark on publishing a new journal in English. It was felt that the level of academic quality of the Korean Radiological Society had grown to a level capable of sustaining a journal...