A physician shortage in cardiology has prompted the American College of Cardiology (ACC) to establish a task force to study and recommend workforce solutions. Recent reports from the federal government, the media, and physician recruiters suggest that fellows entering the field of cardiology cannot keep pace with the replacement of veteran cardiovascular (CV) physicians who are retiring. But on...

The transformation of a traditional discipline-based medical curriculum into a system-based integrated curriculum often poses dilemmas to faculty involved in teaching basic medical sciences. This paper examines the challenges of teaching physiology to medical students in a system-based curriculum. Some of these challenges include: defining the core curriculum, curriculum links, sequencing curri...

Dept of Pharmacology & PharmacoGenomics Research Center, Inje University College of Medicine; Dept of Clinical Pharmacology, Inje University Busan Paik Hospital, Busan, Cardiovascular Center & Cardiology Division, Seoul St. Mary’s Hospital & College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul; Dept of Cardiology, Catholic University Uijeongbu St. Mary’s Hospital, Uijeongbu; Dept of Car...

despite the existence of a large variety of competency frameworks for medical graduates, there is no agreement on a single set of outcomes. different countries have attempted to define their own set of competencies to respond to their local situations. this article reports the process of developing medical graduates' competency framework as the first step in the curriculum reform in tehran univ...

conclusions with the increase in interventional procedures in cardiology, iatrogenic pathology of the aorta is seen more frequently, and every cardiologist should know how to diagnose and treat this group of diseases. evidence acquisition our search strategy involved an investigation in the pubmed database for every available article in peer reviewed journals between 1975 and 2015, for subjects...