• are introduced to clinical work and patients almost as soon as they arrive on campus. • learn medicine using an integrated, system-based approach. • are treated as junior colleagues by faculty members. • are taught the science of medicine infused with the skills of communication and compassion. • learn how to learna skill they will call on throughout their careers in the quickly changing fiel...

• are introduced to clinical work and patients almost as soon as they arrive on campus. • learn medicine using an integrated, system-based approach. • are treated as junior colleagues by faculty members. • are taught the science of medicine infused with the skills of communication and compassion. • learn how to learna skill they will call on throughout their careers in the quickly changing fiel...

A course of medical education for the MD degree ordinarily consists of a minimum of four years of study. Students recommended for the Doctor of Medicine degree must be of good moral character, they must have completed an entire academic course of instruction as matriculated medical students, they must have passed all required subjects or the equivalent and have received satisfactory grades in t...

Robert Dinu1, Simona Popa2 and Maria Mota3 1Resident Doctor, Department of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, Emergency Clinical County Hospital Craiova, PhD Student, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Craiova, 2University Assistant, MD, PhD, Department of Diabetes, Nutrition and Metabolic Diseases, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Craiova, 3Professor, MD, PhD, Department of Diabet...

Alexey Georgievich Baindurashvili, MD, PhD, Doctor of Medicine, Professor, Full member the Russian Academy Sciences, President H. Turner National Medical Research Center for Childrens Orthopedics and Trauma Surgery, laureate Federation Government Prize, Honored Federation, Chief Pediatric orthopedic trauma surgeon St. Petersburg, celebrates his 75th anniversary.

491 Lisa Guzman, RN, APN, CHPN, AOCN®, is an advanced practice nurse at Monroe Medical Oncology Clinic in Harvey and Tinley Park, IL, an instructor in the School of Nursing at Ivy Tech Community College in Gary, IN, and director of Blue Skies Hospice in Hammond, IN; Mark Kozloff, MD, is a doctor of oncology at Monroe Medical Oncology Clinic and an associate professor in the School of Medicine a...

Doctor Musana is a general internal medicine resident and Doctor Yale is a general internal medicine physician with Marshfield Clinic, and Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation, Marshfield, Wis. Please address correspondence to: Steven H Yale, MD, General Internal Medicine, Marshfield Clinic, 1000 N Oak Ave, Marshfield, WI 54449; phone 715.387.9110; fax 715.389.3808; e-mail yale.steven@mcrf. mf...

Eilif Dahl, MD, MHA, PhD, Senior Consultant, Division of Surgery, Rikshospitalet University Hospital, 0027 Oslo, and Professor of Maritime Medicine, University of Bergen, Norwegian Centre for Maritime Medicine, Haukeland University Hospital, 5021 Bergen, Norway, phone +47 23 07 00 00/23 07 09 62, e-mail: [email protected] Cruise ship doctor: demands and challenges versus qualificatio...