PURPOSE In July 2015, the University of Ottawa introduced a competency-based medical education (CBME) postgraduate program for anesthesia. Prior to program implementation, this study aimed to identify Canadian anesthesiology program directors perceptions of CBME and residents' opinion on how the program should be designed and perceived consequences of CBME. METHODS This two-phase, qualitative...

BACKGROUND In order to address and support biostatistics for health research, the Health Sciences Research Office of the University of the Witwatersrand sought to introduce training in biomedical statistics to sustain research and postgraduate education. The experiences encountered in setting up such statistical support in a limited resource, developing country are discussed here. METHODS Two...

A literature review was undertaken to document the status of anaesthetic education in both the peer-reviewed anaesthesia and medical education literature. A search was performed using Silver Platter for the period 1983-91, and the most widely circulated medical education and anaesthesia journals in North America were reviewed in detail. Although anaesthetists are involved in many educational ac...

OBJECTIVE Care for children with medical complexity (CMC) relies on pediatricians who often are ill equipped, but striving to provide high quality care. We performed a needs assessment of pediatricians across diverse subspecialties at a tertiary academic US children's hospital about their continuing education needs regarding the care of CMC. METHODS Eighteen pediatricians from diverse subspec...

OBJECTIVE Residents must become proficient in a variety of procedures. The practice of learning procedural skills on patients has come under ethical scrutiny, giving rise to the concept of simulation-based medical education. Resident training in a simulated environment allows skill acquisition without compromising patient safety. We assessed the impact of a simulation-based procedural skills tr...

Action research, which combines the generation and testing of theory with social system change, demands multiple sources of knowledge about the research setting and encourages the integration of data collection techniques. This article describes the implementation of a longitudinal multi-methodological research and intervention project aimed both at examining the relationship between occupation...

BACKGROUND We undertook a needs assessment exercise using questionnaire survey of junior doctors' knowledge and beliefs concerning evidence-based medicine (EBM) and critical literature appraisal, as this is a core competence in postgraduate medical education. METHODS We surveyed 317 junior doctors in various specialities in the UK West Midlands Deanery. Using validated questionnaires we compa...

BACKGROUND The Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) has a high sensitivity for detecting cognitive dysfunction. Swedish normative data does not exist and international norms are often derived from populations where cognitive impairment has not been screened for and not been thoroughly assessed to exclude subjects with dementia or mild cognitive impairment. OBJECTIVE To establish norms for MoC...

Genetic factors affect an individual’s maximum possible lifespan. In humans, the average lifespan is about 40 years shorter than the maximum lifespan. Any gene that influences the development of a disease is called a disease-susceptibility gene. The impacts of disease-susceptibility genes on aging and average lifespan would be much stronger than the impacts of aging genes on maximum lifespan. M...

The surface plasmon in simple metal clusters is red-shifted from the Mie frequency, the energy shift being significantly larger than the usual spill-out correction. Here we develop a variational approach to the RPA collective excitations. Using a simple trial form, we obtain analytic expressions for the energy shift beyond the spill-out contribution. We find that the additional red shift is pro...