BACKGROUND Extended rural clerkships clearly increase the likelihood of rural practice post-graduation. What has not been determined is whether such rural interventions increase the likelihood of graduates practicing in more remote, versus inner regional, locations. METHODS The Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency database was used to identify the current workplace of every gradua...

Leopold Schenk attained international fame by his contributions to the science of embryology. The first chair of embryology in any medical school was established for him in the University of Vienna. This article briefly describes his life and his work.

AIM Auckland and Otago medical programmes have different methods for selecting students. This study compared postgraduate retention in New Zealand (NZ) of medical graduates from the two medical programmes, to assess whether different selection methods influenced retention. Other variables assessed included entrance category and age at graduation. METHODS Anonymised databases were created of a...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to measure the students' perceptions of the educational environment in a medical school undergoing curricular transition from a traditional to a problem-based learning (PBL) program in the academic year 2006-2007. MATERIALS AND METHODS The Dundee Ready Education Environment Measure (DREEM) was used to evaluate perception of the educational environment. Mult...

Since opening its doors in 1893, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine has built a reputation for excellence unsurpassed by any other medical school in the world.

Introduction Like everyone else I am getting older, and I am being asked to talk more and more about the future (a coincidence?). By definition, these talks are speculative (there is no evidence for the future) and they reflect, almost exclusively, a personal view, which in turn arises from my own by definition restricted vital experiences. While preparing one of these talks, I thought that nob...

This history is largely about the players on the stage of the Yale Pathology Department acting out their roles as observed by the author in over a half century as a member of the department and as associate dean of the medical school.