1 Gastrointestinal Surgeon and Endoscopist, Chief of the Graduate General Surgery Program at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Member of the Gastrohepatology group at the Universidad de Antioquia and the Instituto de Cancerología Clínica las Américas in Medellín, Colombia [email protected] 2 Radiologist, Internist and Gastroenterologist, Professor at the San Antonio Campus of the Univers...

William Henry Welch's selection in 1884 as the first faculty member of the new medical school at Johns Hopkins created the invigorating atmosphere that generated the revolutionary changes in medical training and laboratory medicine that transformed medicine in America. Dr. Welch's family traditions, his New England upbringing, Yale education, and German university experience prepared a unique i...

Julia Hoffmann, Leigh M. Marsh, Mario Pieper, Elvira Stacher, Bahil Ghanim, Gabor Kovacs, Peter König, Heinrike Wilkens, Hans Michael Haitchi, Gerald Hoefler, Walter Klepetko, Horst Olschewski, Andrea Olschewski, and Grazyna Kwapiszewska Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria; Institute of Anatomy, University Lübeck, Lübeck, Germany and Airway Research Center North...

1 Gastrointestinal Surgeon and Endoscopist, Chief of the Graduate General Surgery Program at Universidad Pontificia Bolivariana, Member of the Gastrohepatology group at the Universidad de Antioquia and the Instituto de Cancerología Clínica las Américas in Medellín, Colombia [email protected] 2 Radiologist, Internist and Gastroenterologist, Professor at the San Antonio Campus of the Univers...

Anna Fels is a practicing psychiatrist who has written on psychiatric and medical topics for the New York Times Book Review, The (London) Times Literary Supplement, The Nation, Self, the Science Times section of The New York Times, and most recently the Harvard Business Review. She is a member of the faculty of the Weill Medical College of Cornell University at New York Presbyterian Hospital.

Objectives To improve programs aimed to enhance medical student resiliency, we examined both medical student and faculty advisor perspectives on resiliency-building in an Asian medical school. Methods In two separate focus groups, a convenience sample of 8 MD-PhD students and 8 faculty advisors were asked to identify strategies for enhancing resilience. Using thematic analysis, two researcher...

*Corresponding author: Aru Narayanasamy, Associate Professor, National Teaching Fellow, Academic Associate (HEA), Fellow of Higher Education Academy, Member of BACP Coaching Division, University of Nottingham, Faculty of Medicine & Health Science, School of Health Sciences, Room 51, C Floor, Queens Medical Centre, Nottingham NG7 2HA, United Kingdom, Tel: +44 (0)115 823 0808; E-mailAru.Narayanas...

Medical societies, faculty, and trainees use Twitter to learn from and educate other social media users. These social media communities bring together individuals with various levels of experience. It is not known if experienced individuals are also the most influential members. We hypothesize that participants with the greatest experience would be the most influential members of a Twitter comm...

Alfred Blalock had a remarkable career as a clinical surgeon, laboratory investigator, and a teacher of medical students and residents. This article examines certain potential critical influences on his career, including Drs William Halsted and Barney Brooks, and Dr Blalock's early years as a resident and subsequently a faculty member at Vanderbilt. It is intended as a focused review, utilizing...