CONTEXT Entry to practice medical programs (graduate- and undergraduate-entry) in Australia are under considerable pressure to provide clinical training as a result of increased student numbers. At the same time modern medical curricula require the development of active placements in expanded settings to achieve graduate medical practitioners who are clinically able. These dual imperatives requ...

Approaches to evaluation of medical student teaching programs have historically incorporated a range of methods and have had variable effectiveness. Such approaches are rarely comprehensive, typically evaluating only a component rather than the whole program, and are often episodic rather than continuous. There are growing pressures for significant improvement in academic program evaluation. Th...

background:   facing an unfamiliar environment is always one of the biggest concerns for medical students who are going to have clinical educations in medical fields. recently early clinical exposure (ece) for medical students has been proposed as an effective factor in reducing stress and motivating toward the rest of their education as a clinical student. this study aimed at evaluation of ece...

John Henry Biggart was born on 17th November 1905 in Belfast in a house a few hundred yards from Queen's University. He was to be associated with the University as student, medical graduate, Professor of Pathology, Dean of the Medical Faculty, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Pro-Chancellor, in all for half a century or more. He is arguably one of the major influences in the development of the Queen's M...

The Comprehensive Osteopathic Medical Licensing Examination-USA (COMLEX-USA) assesses the competence of osteopathic physicians in training. It is designed to protect the public by setting minimum competence standards. All osteopathic medical students must pass COMLEX-USA Level 1, Level 2-Cognitive Evaluation, and Level 2-Performance Evaluation before being allowed to graduate from an osteopathi...

A. Investigators Jennifer Dionne, Assistant Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford Alberto Salleo, Associate Professor of Materials Science and Engineering, Stanford Diane Wu, Graduate student, Chemistry, Stanford University Michael Wisser, Graduate student, Materials Science, Stanford Aitzol Garcia, Postdoctoral researcher, Materials Science, Stanford University Koen Vandewal...