BACKGROUND The practices of euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide remain controversial. OBJECTIVE To achieve better understanding of attitudes and practices regarding euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide in the context of end-of-life care. DESIGN Cohort study. SETTING United States. PARTICIPANTS 3299 oncologists who are members of the American Society of Clinical Oncology. ME...

background: in recent years use of family physicians has been determined as a start point of health system reform to achieve more productive health services. in this study we aimed to assess the cost-efficiency of the implementation of this plan in fars province, southern iran. methods: this cross-sectional descriptive study was done in 2007 in 18 provincial health centers as well as 224 rural ...

Pulmonary physician subspecialty training in the USA is typically offered in combination with critical care training. The Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) governs postgraduate medical training in the USA. Through the ACGME, there are 20 hospitals that offer pulmonary disease training alone and >150 programmes nationally that offer combined pulmonary and critical care...

INTRODUCTION Recently, efforts have been undertaken to enhance the face validity of technical skills training by introducing role-plays and standardised patients. Since little is known about the effects of role-playing with respect to the realism of a training situation and students' objective performance, we performed a randomized controlled trial. METHODS 36 medical students participated in...

Physician interest in global health, particularly among family physicians, is reflected by an increasing proliferation of field training and service experiences. However, translating initial training involvement into a defined and sustainable global health career remains difficult and beset by numerous barriers. Existing global health literature has largely examined training experiences and rel...

As physician assistant (PA) programs developed in the 1960s, curriculum models emerged around the central themes of physician-dependent practice and competency-based education. By 2007, there were 136 accredited programs in the United States, with 108 (79%) offering a master-degree curriculum. PA program preclinical and clinical curricula are typically evenly divided in length, and the typical ...

Writing from personal experience, physician and author Danielle Ofri asks what evidence is needed to justify trying to humanize medical training via the power of literature.

BACKGROUND There is growing recognition of the importance of physician leadership in healthcare. At the same time, becoming an effective leader requires significant training. While educational opportunities for practicing physicians exist to develop their leadership skills, there is a paucity of leadership opportunities for post graduate trainees. In response to this gap, both the Royal College...

Objective: Despite the key role primary care physicians play in suicide prevention in Japan, successfully managing psychiatric disorders associated with suicide remains a challenge for healthcare practitioners. Postgraduate psychiatry training may be one way to improve the self-rated competence of primary care physicians and their ability to successfully manage these disorders. Previous studies...

Leadership skills are essential for a successful career as a physician-scientist, yet many MD-PhD training programs do not offer formal training in leadership. The Vanderbilt Medical Scientist Training Program (MSTP) previously established a 2-day leadership workshop that has been held biennially since 2006 for students in the first and second years of the graduate school portion of combined MD...