In this article, the president of the Association of Canadian Medical Colleges (ACMC) and its
director of research review the issues that have confronted ACMC since its inception: the …

The accrediting agency for US and Canadian medical education programs, the Liaison
Committee on Medical Education (LCME), was founded 50 years ago at a 1942 meeting of …

The earliest medical schools were established to supplement apprenticeship, the only route
to practice available in colonial Canada. By 1885, eight medical schools were trying to …

The latest meeting of the AAMC's Forum on the Future of Academic Medicine, on April 29,
1998, opened with a talk by Francis S. Collins, MD, PhD, director of the National Human …

Reflecting the clear opinions voiced at the 1974 meeting of General Council" That the CMA
and its provincial divi¬ sions have, must retain and increase their interest and activity in the …

Over the past 50 years, many Canadian medical educators have pursued ideas and visions,
as individuals in the 1950s and 1960s and later in partnership with various national bodies …

embarked on this adventure with some trepidation a couple of years ago, we are very
pleased to launch this initiative. The trepidation has come from the many challenges of …

''Medical schools haven't changed since the Flexner report of 1910.''In the past ten years, I
have heard a variety of individuals say this, including leaders of academic medicine and …

Authority for the regulation of practice is vested in the Ontario College of Physicians and
Surgeons, which is responsible for the licensing of medical practitioners and for the …

In its first meeting, the Forum on the Future of Academic Medicine discussed the changes
facing academic medicine in a competitive environment and at a time when medical schools …