I am writing on behalf of the continuing medical education and continuing professional development offices at the 17 Canadian medical schools. For many years, we have had the same concerns as those expressed by Paul Hébert and the Editorial-Writing Team in a recent CMAJ editorial, and we have worked diligently to provide high-quality continuing education programs with minimal bias. We are activ...

The growth of Multi-Protocol Label Switching (MPLS) as the emerging choice for provisioning and managing core networks has placed significant emphasis on MPLS based recovery mechanisms. The present global protection frameworks require extensive involvement of Label Switching Routers (LSRs) in the protection framework. The LSRs are involved in failure propagation and maintenance of information r...

The world can learn two key lessons from spontaneous settlements: (i) design so as to adapt human biology; and (ii) save energy. Timeless processes of urban growth sustainability have forced societies conserve Yet, nowadays, a profession focused on ideology short-term profit discredits many economical effective long-term methods. Decision-makers, politicians, urbanists talk energy conservation ...

To mark the 50th anniversary of the Surgeon General's first report on smoking and health, and to promote this year's report, Howard Koh, MD, MPH, assistant secretary for health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, spoke about the importance of and the continuing need for tobacco-control efforts.

This paper is the first attempt in introducing the medicinal importance of gems as found in the Sanskrit text 'Rasaratnasamuccaya', which has been rendered an English translation here. The modern physicians and gemologists will find this study quite useful in continuing research and, thus, develop a new field of gem medicine.

BACKGROUND Continuing education (CE) is an essential professional activity. In the last decade, CE has been actively pursued by the medical profession in Australia and abroad. However, the uptake of CE in dentistry has been much slower and there is minimal Australian data on dental CE. METHODS To determine the level of CE activity, in 1998, postal questionnaires were sent to all fellows of th...

introduction: continuing education and training of employees significantly affect a hospital’s performance and efficiency, and learning organizations usually exhibit higher efficiency. hence, the objective of this study was to evaluate the correlation between the hospital employees’ continuing education and performance indicators in the teaching hospitals affiliated to tehran’s azad university....

background & purpose: the purpose of this research was to evaluate the quantity and quality of continuing medical education programs from the viewpoint of general medical practitioners in ilam province. methods: the research method was descriptive survey and the statistic sample was a group of 61 general medical practitioners who have been working in ilam during 2010-2011 and were chosen by sim...