This is the 23rd report prepared by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) on the percentage of each US medical school's graduates entering family medicine residency programs. Approximately 9.3% of the 15,704 graduates of US medical schools between July 2002 and June 2003 were first-year family medicine residents in 2003, compared with 10.3% in 2002 and 10.9% in 2001. Medical school g...

In the midst of a promising era of expansion in biomedical research, there is growing concern about a serious decline in a crucial category of research personnel: physician-scientists. If this trend continues, many believe that key types of medical research will suffer (1). While apprehension about the survival of physician-scientists had been expressed previously (2–4), there are a number of i...

The specialty of nursing in private colleges is the key element to cultivate talents meet social needs. To investigate current situation education and determine challenges related training mode professionals conducive promoting reform progress medical cause. This paper discusses existing problems professional colleges, puts forward personnel mode, teaching methods, design evaluation methods.

background: emphasis on revise and provide new methods of evaluation in medical colleges are widely increasing. evaluation methods based on clinical practice and students’ performance appraisement in health care system and in medical student is introduced as an effective method in some studies. methods: the aim of this study was to consider the usefulness of a new method to evaluate the medical...

In 2014, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) published a report proposing qualifiers of competence to guide medical educators towards training physicians to appropriately care for individuals who are or may be lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT); gender nonconforming (GNC); and/or born with differences in sex development (DSD). These qualifiers provide content and context...

n engl j med 366;14 nejm.org april 5, 2012 1265 and biologic sciences. A 2004 Institute of Medicine report on “Improving Medical Education” and several years of evaluation identified a need to redesign the MCAT to better reflect physicians’ current challenges. Beginning in 2015, the test will include a section on behavioral and social sciences, and a section on critical analysis and reasoning w...

No doubt there are certain qualified men from the continent whose advice and treatment only few could seek. There are also side by side unqualified men in the true sense who profess to be dentists and many of them are really doing more harm than good. Tropical schools are being opened in India, and I think early opening up of dental colleges will remove the longfelt need. At least one, if not m...

Objective: Colour vision is a function of three types of cone pigments present in retina. Any abnormality in the cone pigments may cause deficiency of colour vision which is called as colour blindness. The incidence of Colour vision deficiency varies from race to race and different in different geographical areas. Colour is very important sign used in medical profession, but there is no effecti...

Objective: To assess the hepatitis B vaccination status among medical students at Islamabad Medical and Dental College. Materials and Methods: In August 2015, a crosssectional survey was carried out at Pediatric Department, Islamabad Medical and Dental College, Islamabad using a pretested self-administered questionnaire among 315 medical students of clinical years (3rd, 4th and 5th years) after...