BACKGROUND Burnout is prevalent in doctors and can impact on job dissatisfaction and patient care. In medical students, burnout is associated with poorer self-rated health; however, it is unclear what factors influence its development. This study investigated whether health behaviours predict burnout in medical students. METHODS Medical students (n=356) at the Universities of St Andrews and M...

Morris Berman has written an important book. Instead of writing the history of an institution to show how it promoted the growth of science, he has attempted to discover what sort of science an institution enshrined and what social interests this science furthered. The Royal Institution and the turn of the eighteenth/nineteenth century were an appropriate choice, since science and society were ...

BACKGROUND Honesty and integrity are key attributes of an ethically competent physician. However, academic misconduct, which includes but is not limited to plagiarism, cheating, and falsifying documentation, is common in medical colleges across the world. The purpose of this study is to describe differences in the self-reported attitudes and behaviours of medical students regarding academic mis...

Jason Gigley Gigley at the University of Wyoming. They write about their GI research at a somewhat geographically-isolated institution without a medical school, and provide advice on topics including funding and institutional resources. Pam Tuma, the May Paths and Places columnist, who is also at an institution without a medical school (although located within a research-intense corridor on the...

OBJECTIVE This study evaluates the effect of healthcare insurance plans on consumer perception of trust in a healthcare institution, and the mediating effect of trust on consumer loyalty towards an institution. METHOD The study was conducted at a healthcare institution in Colombia where a total of 841 patients responded to a questionnaire. RESULTS A structural equation model shows that indi...

Thomas Ferrar was the second professor of surgery in the short-lived (1835-1849) medical school of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. Appointed on 5 July 1836 he failed to turn up for the winter session and was accordingly discharged on 29 November. He died in Sligo in the following June aged 39. Nothing has been written about Ferrar who survives as a mere foot-note in Belfast medical hi...

Until the mid-19th century, there had not been a single resident physician in the Holy Land. However, by the first World War in 1914, 19 hospitals had been established in Jerusalem. The reasons for this unusual phenomenon were religious, political, and sectarian. This does not apply to The Marienstift Kinderhospital, which was unique in 19th century Jerusalem. The hospital was founded and opera...

The recent guidelines of Medical Council of India (MCI) on Graduate Medical Education(l) have placed a lot of emphasis on internal assessment. In fact, internal assessment has become extremely important in view of the fact that a student who fails to clear internal assessment will be debarred from appearing in the final examinations. It is a bold step, which was long overdue but it has brought ...

• New context has been added to the background section of the abstract as requested (page 2). b) Ethics/consent: Please clarify your ethics statement: Is Regional Committee for Medical Ethics in Research a nationwide committee, or is it attached to an institution, if so, please name the institution. . • We have reconstructed the ethics statement as requested (page 6). The regional committee for...