Accreditation within the medical arena is longstanding throughout history. In 1910, the Joint Commission was established with the primary mission of continuously improving healthcare for the public by evaluating healthcare organisations and inspiring them to excel in providing safe and effective treatment of the highest quality and value. In the past 100 years, accreditation has extended to med...

Patients with impaired left ventricular function have a reduced exercise capacity because of dyspnoea and fatigue; and exercise testing has become an integral part of the assessment of patients with chronic heart failure in many cardiac centres.1 Over the past decade, several groups have shown that there is also a clinical benefit from using regular exercise testing and training as adjunctive t...

1920, to visit and befriend all mentally handicapped people living at home and to help and advise parents about home care, especially the early training of young children. It assisted the local authority in administering the services provided under the Mental Deficiency Act. The newly-formed Association was faced with the tremendous task of compiling a register of mentally sub-normal persons in...

BACKGROUND Simulation-based medical education (SBME) has traditionally been conducted as off-site simulation in simulation centres. Some hospital departments also provide off-site simulation using in-house training room(s) set up for simulation away from the clinical setting, and these activities are called in-house training. In-house training facilities can be part of hospital departments and ...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated whether two selection tests previously validated for primary care General Practice (GP) trainee selection could provide a valid shortlisting selection method for entry into specialty training for the secondary care specialty of radiology. METHODS We conducted a retrospective analysis of data from radiology applicants who also applied to UK GP specialty training...

BACKGROUND In France, 48% of home-based peritoneal dialysis (PD) patients require assistance to perform their exchange and manage their treatment. A total of 7% are aided by their family, and 41% by a private nurse. Of all the continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD) patients, 61.7%, and among automated peritoneal dialysis (APD) patients 23%, are assisted at home for their bag exchanges...

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the benefits of checklists for clinical practical courses. Clinical externships are a component of the practical part of the veterinary medicine curriculum. The control is under the responsibility of the training centres. Guidelines and checklists for extramural clinical courses were developed in order to facilitate control mechanisms. The analysis of s...

Currently, general surgeons provide about 50% of endoscopy services across Canada and an even greater proportion outside large urban centres. It is essential that endoscopy remain a core component of general surgery practice and a core competency of general surgery residency training. The Canadian Association of General Surgeons Residents Committee supports the position that quality endoscopy t...

Despite high levels of alcohol-related injury in South Africa, there are no screening and brief intervention (SBI) programs any hospital trauma centres. We conducted semistructured interviews with 16 centre staff (8 doctors, 7 nurses, 1 social worker) focused on barriers enablers to the future implementation a SBI program. Data were analysed using thematic analysis. Perceived included time cons...