This is part 2 of a 2-part paper on ethics and physician-industry relationships. Part 1 offers advice to individual physicians; part 2 gives recommendations to medical education providers and medical professional societies. Industry often sponsors programs for graduate and continuing medical education, as well as major events of medical professional societies. Industry is an abundant source of ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the respective roles of general pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists in the provision of primary pediatric care. DESIGN AND METHODS A practice characteristics questionnaire that included questions about primary care was sent to a random sample of 1616 board-certified and board-eligible active Fellows of the American Academy of Pediatrics; 1145 (70.9%) responded. Anal...

OBJECTIVE We report the preliminary assessment of InsuOnline©, a serious game designed for medical education on insulin therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a pilot study with 41 undergraduate medical students and Internal Medicine residents to assess the educational effectiveness of InsuOnline©, as compared to a traditional educational activity (lecture, cases discussion). Knowledge, ...

S ince 1997, international medical graduates (IMGs) have been a growing population within the entering classes of US family medicine residency programs. In 1997, IMGs made up approximately 14.5% of first-year family medicine residents. In 2009, that percentage had increased to 42.4%.1 Without a doubt there exists a diversity of perspectives regarding the relative advantages and disadvantages of...

 SUMMARY Problem based learning as an innovation in education specially medical domain has been used since few decades and its positive effect in improving learning outcome bas been proved in several investigations. There are some obstacles that prevent shifting from traditional medical education, toward P.B.L. in medical school, so there has been several efforts managed by educationists searc...

BACKGROUND Disaster is a serious public health issue. Health professionals and community residents are main players in disaster responses but their knowledge levels of disaster medicine are not readily available. This study aimed to evaluate knowledge levels and training needs of disaster medicine among potential disaster responders and presented a necessity to popularize disaster medicine educ...

OBJECTIVE To explore perceptions about the factors that influence the ratio of generalists to other specialists. DESIGN Semistructured interviews. SETTING Canada. PARTICIPANTS Thirteen individuals who were closely involved in medical education and health human resource planning or had a role in influencing medical education policy. METHODS Telephone interviews were conducted with partic...

The Chinese state system of medical education has been undergoing reform since the turn of the millennium, with greater impetus since 2008.1,2 These reforms impinge on pluralistic health care institutions. Medical pluralism has thrived over the past 60 years in China within state-run hospitals, universities, and clinics in which biomedicine and traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) are practiced i...