BACKGROUND Few studies have investigated differences in age- and gender-specific educational gradients in tobacco smoking among the whole range of adult age groups. We examined educational inequality in smoking among Japanese adults aged 25-94 years. METHODS Using a large nationally representative sample (167,925 men and 186,588 women) in 2010, prevalence of current smoking and heavy smoking ...

BACKGROUND The General Medical Council states that teaching doctors and students is important for the care of patients. Our aim was to deliver a structured teaching program to final year medical students, evaluate the efficacy of teaching given by junior doctors and review the pertinent literature. METHODS We developed a revision package for final year medical students sitting the Objective S...

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?I have read with interest Colonel Berkeley-Hill's article in the October (1932) issue of the Indian Medical Gazette entitled ' The Place of Psychiatry in the Medical Colleges and Schools in IndiaWith reference to his lines advocating the offering of facilities to students of medicine for the study of the actual cases of mental disorder (vide p. 583...

PURPOSE During the last 15 years, the proportion of U.S. allopathic medical graduates planning to pursue alternative careers (other than full-time clinical practice) has been increasing. The authors sought to identify factors associated with contemporary medical graduates' career-setting plans. METHOD The authors obtained anonymous data from the 108,408 U.S. allopathic medical graduates who c...

OBJECTIVES To report doctors' views about the European Working Time Directive ('the Directive'). DESIGN Survey of the medical graduates of 2002 (surveyed in 2013-2014). PARTICIPANTS Medical graduates. SETTING UK. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Questions on views about the Directive. RESULTS The response rate was 64% (2056/3196). Twelve per cent of respondents agreed that the Directive had bene...

INTRODUCTION Attracting graduates was recommended as a means of diversifying the UK medical student population. Graduates now make up nearly a quarter of the total medical student population. Research to date has focused on comparing the sociodemographic characteristics of applicants to and/or students on traditional and graduate entry programmes (GEMs), yet GEMs account for only 40% of the gra...

OBJECTIVE To understand how prepared UK medical graduates are for practice and the effectiveness of workplace transition interventions. DESIGN A rapid review of the literature (registration #CRD42013005305). DATA SOURCES Nine major databases (and key websites) were searched in two timeframes (July-September 2013; updated May-June 2014): CINAHL, Embase, Educational Resources Information Cent...

BACKGROUND In the UK and many other countries, many specialties have had longstanding problems with recruitment and have increasingly relied on international medical graduates to fill junior and senior posts. We aimed to determine what specialties were the most popular and desirable among candidates for training posts, and whether this differed by country of undergraduate training. METHODS We...

In order to evaluate the graduates attending second-round examination objectively, this study established graduate second-round examination evaluate system based on Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) and Fuzzy comprehensive evaluation method. Evaluation indexes in the system included knowledge structure, scientific research ability and comprehensive quality of graduates attending second-round exa...

PURPOSE Researchers developed evaluation tools measuring employment relevant satisfaction for nursing new graduates. The evaluation tools were designed to be relevant to nursing managers who make employment decisions and nursing new graduates who were just employed. METHODS In-depth interviews and an expert panel were established to review the activities that evaluate the employee and employe...