OBJECTIVE Although the medical system has expanded considerably over the past two decades in almost all countries, so too has the demand for health care. The radiology specialisation may be an early system indicator, being especially sensitive to changes in supply and demand in both rural and urban environments. The question is whether the new policies of increasing the number of radiologists c...

Service is central to the mission of a trauma surgeon and inextricably interwoven into our professional lives and activities. It is important to recognize the role that professional associations play in leveraging service as well as the need to continue to cultivate the ethic of service in medical education and in our training programs.

Dear Editor: Wang et al. should be congratulated for giving a comprehensive review of simulation training in healthcare. Whilst all the points they make are correct, they concentrate on the benefits of simulation whilst largely ignoring the downsides of this new modality of medical education. The advantages of simulation by and large outweigh the disadvantages; however, the disadvantages are wo...

A survey of food safety training was conducted in small food manufacturing firms in South Wales. Structured interviews with managers were used to collect information on the extent and level of food hygiene and HACCP training and the manager's perceptions of and attitude towards training. All the businesses surveyed had undertaken some hygiene training. Hygiene induction programmes were often un...

A successful programme is reported from Mozambique for training middle-level health workers to perform fairly advanced surgical procedures in remote areas where the services of consultants are virtually unobtainable. Manpower and financial constraints obliged Mozambique to train medical assistants to perform surgical work in rural areas, where three broad priorities were identified: pregnancy-r...

For the past 10 years, the military medical system costs have increased by an estimated 167 percent. Behavioral health issues and physical ailments are major contributors to the increased costs. As a result, fatigue and burnout of medical professionals are growing concerns. The Army Medical Department (AMEDD) recognizes that physical and psychological stressors adversely impact personal well-be...

In a review of the organisation of higher medical training in Britain leading to accreditation for those intending to specialize in venereology within the National Health Service suggestions are made for improving the present system. These include the enrollment of trainees in general medicine as well as in venereology to ensure a broad general experience of medicine. The establishment of an ag...

OBJECTIVE Headache is a common condition not always managed satisfactorily by primary care providers (PCPs). In an effort to improve headache care, the Curitiba City Hall in consortia with Hospital de Clínicas da Universidade Federal do Paraná - Brazil developed an educational program directed to the PCPs. The goal of the project was to evaluate, to update and to train the PCP on headache knowl...

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Background Medical simulation and team training is widely used and the effect on learning is generally accepted. However, full scale simulation is expensive and time consuming. Mornings in the Emergency Department (ED) are often quiet leaving time for other activities. The trauma teams are well organized, and they participate in team training regularly. In contrast, even though medical and surg...