Innovation and change in postgraduate medical education programs affects teaching hospital organizations, since medical education and clinical service are interrelated.Recent trends towards flexible, time-independent and individualized educational programs put pressure on this relationship. This pressure may lead to organizational uncertainty, unbalance and friction making it an important issue...

Postgraduate medical education has seen changes in the recent years, the world over. In Singapore, postgraduate medical education underwent a major transition in 2010 from the Basic and Advanced Specialist Training system overseen by the Joint Committee on Specialist Training by the Specialist Accreditation Board to the new Residency system modeled on the American Residency Programme. This new ...

This paper presents a collection of experiences related to success factors in graduate and postgraduate education. The experiences are mostly concerned with how to make the education relevant from an industrial viewpoint. This is emphasized as a key issue in software engineering education and research, since the main objective is to give the students a good basis for largescale software develop...

Medical Council of India (MCI) is an autonomous regulatory authority responsible for setting the standards of undergraduate as well as Postgraduate Medical Education besides certifying the availability of adequate infrastructure, clinical teaching material, and the trained workforce in the training institutes. Specifically, the Postgraduate Medical Education is governed by the MCI Postgraduate ...

BACKGROUND The authors conducted a study to examine the antibiotic prescribing practices of general and pediatric dentists in the management of odontogenic infections in children. METHODS The authors relied on a cross-sectional study design to assess the antibiotic prescribing practices of general and pediatric dentists in North Carolina. The survey instrument consisted of five clinical case ...

Medical school curricula and postgraduate education programmes expend considerable resources teaching medical ethics. Simultaneously, whistleblowers' agitation continues, at great personal cost, to prompt major intrainstitutional and public inquiries that reveal problems with the application of medical ethics at particular clinical "coalfaces". Virtue ethics, emphasising techniques promoting an...