general medicine, family and community medicine are losing their interest among Pakistani medical students. Although there has been an increased awareness of community based curriculum in local medical colleges, medical students of today prefer specialty training programmes over primary care specialties.1 Multiple factors including social, cultural, economical and personal interest of the medic...

States are increasingly considering legislative and regulatory avenues to establish the role of radiologist assistants (RAs) under current state medical practice acts or state radiation control regulatory programs. It is critical that radiology practices be cautious to comply with federal and state laws and regulations to ensure that these advanced practice professionals provide the appropriate...

They draw on learning from case studies which formed part of research on support for mental health and character education in schools, colleges and alternative provision across England . The case study schools were selected based on their reported active engagement in provision for mental health and character development. The case study settings included mainstream (both LA maintained and acade...

There has been increasing interest at health science centers in improving the education of health professionals by offering faculty development activities. In 2007-08, as part of an effort to expand education-related faculty development offerings on campus, the University of Tennessee Health Science Center surveyed faculty members in an effort to identify faculty development activities that wou...

Throughout its history chiropractic has faced two disparate and at times conflicting demands, unity and diversity. To survive and to flourish has required unity at some level, at least politically. Not that a review of chiropractic history would convince any outsider that unity has been an operational imperative. In many countries and in the US, the profession is still largely divided around tw...

BACKGROUND This study evaluated the processes of curricular change and the initial outcomes of the Undergraduate Medical Education for the 21st Century (UME-21) project at 18 schools. METHODS Site visits were conducted at eight partner schools in 1999 and 2001. Written proposals, progress reports, and final reports of 18 schools were reviewed. Senior medical students' responses to questionnai...

This research examines the determinants of the match between high school seniors and postsecondary institutions in the United States. I model college application decisions as a nonsequential search problem and specify a unified structural model of college application, admission, and matriculation decisions that are all functions of unobservable individual heterogeneity. The results indicate tha...

Report of the 2010-2011 Professional Affairs Committee: Effective Partnerships to Implement Pharmacists’ Services in Team-Based, Patient-Centered Healthcare Magaly Rodriguez de Bittner, Alex J. Adams, Anne L. Burns, Carolyn Ha, Michelle L. Hilaire, Donald E. Letendre, Douglas J. Scheckelhoff, Terry L. Schwinghammer, Andrew Traynor, David P. Zgarrick, and Lynette R. Bradley-Baker University of M...

Clinicians who provide care for incarcerated women should be aware of the special health care needs of pregnant incarcerated women and the specific issues related to the use of restraints during pregnancy and the postpartum period. The use of restraints on pregnant incarcerated women and adolescents may not only compromise health care but is demeaning and rarely necessary.

PURPOSE Transforming a primary care practice into a patient-centered medical home (PCMH) is a resource-dependent endeavor. The objective of our study was to evaluate a facilitation model used to support rural primary care practices during a redesign of their processes to achieve recognition as National Center for Quality Assurance PCMHs. METHODS The model was a collaboration between Community...