Purpose The Quality Oncology Practice Initiative (QOPI) is a practice-based system of quality
self-assessment sponsored by the participants and the American Society of Clinical …

Medical education in the United States of America (USA), and worldwide, is increasingly
concentrating on the process and outcome of the educational experience. The first efforts to …

The diversity of European culture is reflected in its healthcare training programs. In intensive
care medicine (ICM), the differences in national training programs were so marked that it …

Background: The Linköping Health University is an example of a medical school which has
succeeded, not only with a major curricular change, transforming itself into a problem-based …

O médico moderno precisa aguçar seus atributos humanos, adaptar-se a contextos
variados e manter a educação permanente. A formação médica não costuma ocorrer no …

Introduction: Medical education continually demonstrates difficulties in keeping up with and
preparingstudents for the evolving demands of patients, practice, and society. This is not due …

Professional education is one of the greatest problems currently confronting the healing
professions. The incorporation of basic science departments into colleges of medicine has …

Martin Luther King said that “of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health care is the most
shocking and inhumane.” Today, despite the overwhelming quantity of attention and …

A famous letter from Sir William Osler to Ira Remsen, dated September 1, 1911, concerns
Osler's objections to the full-time plan, whereby clinical professors should focus on research …

This study investigated the effect of perceived physician burnout on psychological distress
(anxiety, depression, and secondary traumatic stress) in physician spouses. Two‐hundred …