I had the good fortune to be appointed in 1973 to the first Wolfson Foundation Visiting Professorship in General Practice. The appointment entitles the holder, who must be a Fellow or Member of the Royal College of General Practitioners in active practice in the United Kingdom or Eire, to spend four to six weeks in any part of the world. The terms of reference are wide and include consideration...

A comprehensive study was made of the value of necropsies carried out over a six month period in Peterborough Health Authority, using a modification of the format proposed by Schned et al in Vermont, United States of America. Cause of death, clinical correlation, clinical factors contributing to death and clinical evaluation of the necropsy were recorded. The principal diseases were cardiac (33...

The "Choosing Wisely" campaign seeks to reduce unnecessary care in the United States through self-published recommendations by professional societies. The research team sought to identify factors related to low-value care in the Department of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco, using a subset of clinical scenarios published by the American College of Physicians. The team fur...

Higher technological education graduates constitute one of the most important and promising newcomers at the labor market. A smooth and successful vocational socialization of this category of future workers is one of the primary targets of educational systems, and policy makers at both; a national and a European level. This article focuses on the incorporation process of graduates from Greek hi...

BACKGROUND The composition of the Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC) with an equal respect plays a major role in evaluating research proposals to ensure the safety of the subjects and ethical quality of research project. It is mandatory that all research projects with an involvement of human subjects should be approved by the IEC before commencement. AIM To find out the equality of respect ...

SETTING The influence of undergraduate and postgraduate training on health professionals' career choices in favour of rural and underserved communities has not been clearly demonstrated in resource-constrained settings. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the influence of educational factors on the choice of rural or urban sites of practice of health professionals in South Africa. METHO...

1Jagveer Singh Yadav, 2Ashok K Gupta, 3Nandita Kakkar 1Senior Resident, Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India 2Professor and Head, Department of Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery (Unit II), Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh, India 3Associate Professor, Departme...

Thank you very much for inviting me to start off the discussions today on post-graduate medical education. Historically post-graduate education has always been grounded in the perception of the specific health care needs of patients. Therefore, I'm first going to address some of the more important health care needs of children, emphasizing the unmet needs which future pediatricians must be prep...