BACKGROUND In developing effective interventions to increase colorectal cancer (CRC) screening in at risk populations, a necessary first requirement is feasibility. This paper describes how the RESPECT approach to health education guided the conceptualization and implementation of physician-directed academic detailing (AD) to increase practice-wide CRC screening uptake. METHODS Physician-dire...

Themembers of the GMA committee on assessment have the common goal to make exams in the training and continuing education of health professionals in Germany, Austria and Switzerland (D/A/CH countries) as appropriate as possible. For this purpose, they engage in a discourse with each other, considering both scientific research and regional/local contexts. The committee is pleased to present in t...

As the science and study of medicine has continued to evolve over the last 30 years, the concept of physician performance has not only taken shape, but risen to the forefront of our daily practice. "Pay-for-performance," "quality," "audit" and "computerized-care" are terms we recognize and use ever more frequently. Yet, as we strive to improve our care, we have failed to identify a single or be...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study is to establish teaching hospital accreditation standards anew with the hope that Taiwan's teaching hospitals can live up to the expectations of our society and ensure quality teaching. METHODS The development process lasted two years, 2005-2006, and was separated into three stages. The first stage centered on leadership meetings and consensus building, th...

Plants are one of the most important and oldest resources of reparations used in medicine, and pharmacognosy is an interal part of academic education of pharmacists. While this special eld originally consisted of the identification of medicinal plants nd of the knowledge about their constituents, pharmacological ffects and therapeutic efficacy, during the past 20 years a new evelopment with a c...

Postgraduate medical education in the UK has gone through a maelstrom of change in the last 20 years; many components have disadvantaged clinical academic training in particular. In this article we summarise some of the changes and describe the advantages of the creation of a dedicated clinical academic graduate school as a response to these changes.