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 ...

T he European Union (EU) has progressively expanded the number of its member nations throughout the years. Since its founding in 1993, the number of its members has grown from the initial 6 nations to 28 nations (EU28) in 2013, therefore including more than one-half of the nations belonging to geopolitical Europe. This political achievement has been paralleled in many European nations by the em...

The modern engineering asset manager is required to develop, operate and maintain engineering assets economically and in a socially responsible and sustainable manner. Key issues confronting the asset manager of today include taking a strategic life cycle approach to asset management, meeting user requirements and minimising risks. To achieve this, it is necessary to understand asset life cycle...

Although formal postgraduate medical education may be a recent phenomenon, many long-established medical societies throughout Britain have contributed to the continuing medical education of established practitioners while the specialist societies have made an immense contribution to the dissemination ofnew knowledge and many consultants regard these societies as the most valuable source ofnew k...

Thyroid associated ophthalmopathy, or thyroid eye disease (TED), is a complex inflammatory disorder of the eye that, as its name implies, is usually associated with thyroid disease. Clinical observation supports the existence of three main TED subtypes, namely ocular myopathy, congestive myopathy, and mixed congestive and myopathic ophthalmopathy. Although the precise pathophysiology of TED rem...

BACKGROUND In public health, as well as other health education contexts, there is increasing recognition of the transformation in public health practice and the necessity for educational providers to keep pace. Traditionally, public health education has been at the postgraduate level; however, over the past decade an upsurge in the growth of undergraduate public health degrees has taken place. ...