The Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research (hereafter the Mayo Foundation), the precursor to the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education, was incorporated in 1915. The Mayo Foundation, which was affiliated with the University of Minnesota Graduate School, aimed to establish a higher standard for training medical specialists. Together, the University of Minnesota and the Mayo Found...

background: medical education and training can directly contribute to the development of psychological distress in medical students. this can lead to catastrophic consequences such as impaired academic performance, impaired competency, medical errors and attrition from medical school. this study aimed to assess the prevalence of psychological morbidity among iranian medical students. methods: t...

Orthopedic surgery residency training is a difficult endeavor, and the selection of residents that will perform well in a rigorous training program is challenging for residency program directors. Even defining a "great" resident is a difficult endeavor. However, there are certain qualities that anecdotally are associated with high-performing residents, which include being trustworthy, hard-work...

ISO 15189:2007 provides the particular requirements for quality and competence in the medical laboratory. Each clause within the standard provides systems which are built on processes which are, in turn, comprised of tasks. Records and data provide evidence of implementation in term of these requirements. To that end, the standard is sustained by establishment and continual improvement of stand...

Human intelligence can simultaneously process many tasks with the ability to accumulate and reuse knowledge. Recent advances in artificial intelligence, such as Transfer, Multitask Layered Learning, seek replicate these abilities. However, humans must specify task order, which is often difficult particularly uncertain domain This work introduces a Continual-learning system (ConCS), that given a...