BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES While oral health is an important topic for medical education, it is often not covered in medical school. The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) has recently set guidelines for oral health training in medical education. Our objective was to demonstrate how a mandatory interclerkship (half-day workshops taught between third-year clerkships) that covers pedi...

The last two decades have seen a tremendous boom of medical colleges in Nepal. Before 1993, Institute of Medicine, Maharajgunj was the sole national institution for medical education for almost 15 years. In the year 1993, BP Koirala Institute of Health Sciences, Dharan was established and this was soon followed by a rapid increase in the number of affiliated medical colleges of Kathmandu Univer...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE Twenty percent of US youth have a chronic medical condition and many attend college. Guidelines for transition from pediatric to adult care do not address college health services, and little is known about their capacity to identify, support, and provide care for these youth. The objective of this study was to describe college health center policies, practices, and reso...

Superintendent, European Mental Hospital, Ranchi As psychiatry is yearly earning a deeper significance in the theory and practice of medicine, I decided to circulate a questionnaire to the principals of all the medical colleges and schools in India to ascertain, if possible, what facilities exist for medical students in this country to acquire some knowledge of mental disorders. Replies were re...

Medical profession is one of the prestigious and esteemed professions amidst the professional opportunities available to young aspirants. Armed Forces Medical College by its virtue of selective admission procedures, training and induction becomes the primary focus of such research. The aim of the present study was to evaluate source traits of 300 medical students, 150 each from AFMC and civil m...

introduction: india has the highest number of medical colleges in the world and subsequently the higher number of medical teachers. there is a dire need of adopting a systematic approach to faculty development to enhance quality education to meet health challenges for 21st century. this manuscript provides a landscape of faculty development programs in india, identifying gaps and opportunities ...

CONTEXT There is attrition of women across professorial ranks in academic pathology. Women are underrepresented as leaders; 15.4% of academic pathology departments are chaired by women, according to the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC). OBJECTIVE To identify areas for targeted interventions that can advance academic and leadership development of women faculty by examining (1) s...

Since the 1980s, school ranking systems have been a topic of discussion among leaders of higher education. Various ranking systems are based on inadequate data that fail to illustrate the complex nature and special contributions of the institutions they purport to rank, including U.S. medical schools, each of which contributes uniquely to meeting national health care needs. A study by Tancredi ...