Thesis (M.A.)--Taipei Medical University Graduate Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology

This study was undertaken to document the popularity of appointments as temporary lecturer in anatomy (TLA) at the University of Manchester during the period 1991-1998, and to profile the applicants for the posts. Data concerning 465 applicants were collated from departmental records and application forms. Prior to 1996, there were ...

Medical informatics, as a descriptive, scientific study, must be mathematically or theoretically described. Is it important to define a model for medical informatics? The answer is worth pursuing. The medical informatics profession stands to benefit three-fold: first, by clarifying the vagueness of the definition of medical informatics, secondly, by identifying ...

Japanese medical education differs from U.S. medical education in a number of ways. In particular, Japanese medical students have little hands-on contact with patients in their six years of medical school; in post-graduate training, Japanese residents spend most of their time caring for tertiary care patients with complex diseases, and ...

OBJECTIVES: The authors examined whether international medical graduates (IMGs) constitute a greater percentage of the US physician workforce in rural underserved areas than in rural non-underserved areas. Research findings could help policymakers determine whether the role of international medical graduates in compensating for local physician shortages counterbalances international medical graduates' ...

OBJECTIVE: The purpose of this work is to report on application patterns for residency positions in obstetrics and gynecology. METHODS: The Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) of the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) records each application for a position in a participating residency program. In the 1996-97 application cycle, ...

In response to growing concerns that continued unlimited governmental funding of graduate medical education (GME) would lead to a physician surplus, Congress enacted provisions in the Balanced Budget Act (BBA) of 1997 to limit further growth, as well as to encourage reductions in GME. The measures incorporated in this section ...

The coefficient of relationship by isonymy is Ri=sigma(n(n-1)/2(N(N-1)) in which n is the number of persons of each surname and N=sigma n. Dividing Ri into two components, one for the contribution of co-residence (family size) and the other for diversity of surnames among residences is achieved by letting a1 represent ...

This is the 17th report prepared by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) on the percentage of each US medical school's graduates entering family practice residency programs. Approximately 16.6% of the 15,894 graduates of US medical schools between July 1996 and June 1997 were first-year family practice residents in ...

PURPOSE: To examine predictors identified from a review of the literature for their relationships to choice of academic medicine careers among graduates of a community-based, primary-care-oriented medical school. METHOD: All graduates from the first 14 classes of the Wright State University School of Medicine (1980-1993) were investigated in a two-part ...

Authors discuss the need for increased analytical skills in the current medical environment and suggest a method which combines the use of targeted studies and Internet communication as part of graduate medical education. Advantages of such a program include involvement of the private sector in clinical outcome studies, improvements in ...

Medical care in Iceland can be viewed as an experiment of nature. This small island society has combined the Nordic social and welfare structures with advanced international medicine. The Vikings settled Iceland in the ninth century, and the population has remained biologically homogeneous because of its remote isolation. This homogeneity ...

The Democratic Republic of Madagascar lies off the southeastern coast of Africa and ranks as the fourth largest island in the world. Average per capita yearly income is about $400 (US). In 1990 life expectancies at birth were 52 years for men and 55 years for women. Graduate medical education ...

Graduate medical education has been criticized for failing to adequately prepare young physicians to enter the workforce upon completion of their training. In addressing this criticism, the author makes arguments both for and against this assertion. Broad qualitative changes (graduate medical education training position allocation, subspecialists' role in health care ...

Available data suggest that South Carolina does not have the same degree of problems with its medical workforce as is present in many other areas of the country. While there may be too many specialists and not enough primary care physicians and while maldistribution is also a problem in some ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: Since the mid-1980s, the number of osteopathic graduates has increased, and the number of osteopathic hospitals has decreased. This has led to an increasing number of osteopathic students seeking training in Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) family practice residency programs. In response to these developments ...

BACKGROUND: "The Class of 1989" is a study of 1722 people who were awarded an MD degree by a Canadian university in 1989. This paper reports on migration, specialty choices and patterns of post-MD training in order to assess the contribution of the graduating cohort to the physician workforce of ...

TennCare is Tennessee's innovative program that replaces the state's Medicaid program with a health care system based on managed care and designed to cover the vast majority of the state's poor and uninsured. The program provides health care benefits not only to those eligible for Medicaid, but also to the ...

The primary mission of a state-supported medical education is to produce physicians who will practice in that state. Medical school and residency graduates at the University of Wisconsin-Madison were compared as to how often they practice in the state after completing training. METHODS: Six hundred ninety-three medical student graduates from ...

OBJECTIVES: To identify graduates of medical schools outside of the United States who are on academic general surgical faculties in the United States and to determine their contribution to surgery in the United States. DESIGN: A questionnaire was sent to the departments of general surgery of 128 medical schools and ...

This paper addresses key issues concerning the physician workforce and the financing of graduate medical education. The American College of Physicians recommends the establishment of a national advisory organization to develop a coherent and coordinated national policy on the health professions workforce. Given the increasing oversupply of physicians, the College ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess the postgraduate achievements of graduates of the University of Tasmania Medical School. DESIGN: Postal questionnaire survey in October 1994 and March and May 1995. PARTICIPANTS AND SETTING: 262 of the 400 medical graduates of the University of Tasmania who graduated between 1970 and 1983 for whom addresses ...

An educational Web site on the topic of risk management and medical-legal issues was designed. The site incorporates a 25-question multiple-choice quiz where resident responses were stored in a database for quantitative analysis. Residents who browsed the educational module scored significantly higher on the quiz (81%) than those who did ...

The goal of workforce planning should be to match the supply of providers with the nation's demand. Whatever workforce planning process evolves, it will be necessary for the specialty to portray accurately our workforce needs. Because this portrait requires a clear understanding of the development of and funding mechanisms for ...

OBJECTIVE: The authors sought to determine whether there is a selection bias against international medical graduate applicants for U.S. residency training positions in psychiatry. METHOD: Identical requests for a program application were sent by two resident applicants--one international medical graduate and one graduate of a U.S. medical school--to 193 residency ...

During a down-sizing of residency programs at a State University Medical School, hospital based residents' positions were eliminated. It was determined to find out the characteristics of the residents who graduated from the Laboratory Medicine Program, to compare women graduates with men graduates, and to compare IMGs with United States ...

The decision to develop a treatment service for medical residents at Escola Paulista de Medicina was influenced by three main factors: the suicide of four young doctors (2 residents) at this institution between 1995 and 1996, a research study that investigated stress among medical residents and the experience of other ...

Jichi Medical School (JMS) was established in 1972 to supply graduates to rural areas where medical resources are scarce. JMS has several unique characteristics aimed at motivating graduates to work in a rural practice. These include financial aid for students, a home prefecture recruiting scheme, location in a non-urban area, ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES: This is the 16 report prepared by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) on the percentage of each US medical school's graduates entering family practice residency programs. Approximately 15.9% of the 16,029 graduates of the US medical schools between July 1995 and June 1996 were first-year ...

Regional graduate medical education (GME) consortia are a strategy to align public support for GME with societal goals. One such consortium was established in Buffalo, NY, to pool financial resources, facilitate processing of Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education requirements, guarantee quality education, and more appropriately use community resources. Cooperation ...

OBJECTIVE: Examine the reproducibility of the RAND method for developing criteria for the appropriateness of medical procedures. DESIGN: Comparison of two sets of explicit criteria for appropriateness of upper gastrointestinal (UGI) endoscopy, developed by separate expert panels from two countries. SETTING: United States, Switzerland. STUDY PARTICIPANTS: National experts from different ...

A 1995 motor-vehicle crash brought a tragic end to the promising medical career of Michael Agapitos, a specialist in physical medicine and rehabilitation who graduated from the University of Ottawa in 1982. The death of the popular young Ottawa physician and the subsequent court case involving the driver of the ...

One of the selection criteria for the three Australian medical schools with graduate-entry programs is performance in a common entry test, the Graduate Australian Medical School Admissions Test (GAMSAT). We found that scores for GAMSAT in 1996 (its second year) varied significantly with candidate sex, age, highest degree level and ...

In recent years there has been a significant economic growth in South East Asia, along with it a concurrent development of medical physics. The status of four countries--Malaysia, Thailand, the Philippines and Indonesia are presented. Medical physicists in these countries have been experiencing the usual problems of lack of recognition, ...

This study was designed to determine whether randomly selected subjects could comprehend prototype consumer-oriented package labeling and inserts for over-the-counter cholestyramine, a nonsystemic lipid-lowering agent. The primary messages communicated in the label were that consumers should see their doctor before taking cholestyramine and should read the full package insert. In ...

A questionnaire was mailed to 2000 randomly selected osteopathic physicians to assess use of osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT). In all, 1055 responses were summarized for the study. The contention is supported that OMT is being used less and less by practicing physicians. Only 6% of the respondents treated more than ...

Medical conditions may be exacerbated by environmental stresses or may limit tolerance to them. To advise patients who are planning foreign or wilderness travel of potential health risks, medical providers must first understand the interactions between physiologic demands from environmental factors and from exercise, and the patient's medical problems. This ...

In only a decade, anesthesiology has reversed its fortunes from an underrepresented specialty in the 1980 Graduate Medical Education National Advisory Committee report to "a specialty in trouble" featured in The Wall Street Journal. This article focuses on anesthesiology and its work force dilemma as an evolving specialist model for ...

The application process leading to certification by the Education Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) was studied using the group of 9,491 graduates of foreign medical schools who initiated their applications in 1988. Using the ECFMG's database, these applicants' countries of citizenship, examination histories, certification status, and exchange visitor status ...

Chiropractic education arrived in Canada, principally in Ontario, in 1909 with Robbins Chiropractic Institute, (RIC) in Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario. After the RIC's closure in 1913, the Canadian Chiropractic College (CCC) Hamilton, Ontario, held its first classes in 1914 under Dr. Ernest Du Val, 1911 Palmer School of Chiropractic graduate. ...

The feminization of US medicine has occurred historically through two separate phenomena: the increase in the number of female graduates of US medical schools and the in-migration of female graduates of foreign medical schools. Reported here are the findings regarding gender on specialty choice, employment setting, and specialty board certification ...

A few years ago, most opinion leaders and workforce analysts believed that the number of generalist physicians in the United States was much too low. The AAMC responded to this concern by convening a task force to review the evidence bearing on the U.S. supply of generalist physicians and to ...

The 169 dental graduates known to have entered UK medical schools between 1986 and 1991 inclusive were sent a questionnaire requesting personal and professional information. A total of 154 graduates (91%) responded, 126 (82%) males and 28 (18%) females, all with a mean age of 27 years. Over the 6 ...

Historically, the interaction between academic departments of otolaryngology-head and neck surgery and the community practice of the specialty has been erratic, anecdotal, and often strained. A general sense of autonomy and isolationism that has characterized many university programs coupled with a paranoia on the part of many practitioners with respect ...

Each year the American Medical Association (AMA) surveys all programs in graduate medical education (GME) accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education. Because of the importance of GME in the national workforce policy debate, this year's survey report has been expanded to provide more detailed GME data. The ...

The goal of this article is to examine the present and future impact of managed care on graduate medical education (GME) and academic medical centers. Obviously, the later 2 entities are closely intertwined and will share in the consequences of changes in our medical care systems. However, there are differences ...

This is the 15th report prepared by the American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP) on the percentage of each US medical school's graduates entering family practice residency programs. Approximately 14.6% of the 16,124 graduates of US medical schools between July 1994 and June 1995 were first-year family practice residents in ...

The tremors that are shaking the world of medicine are reshaping the landscape of graduate medical education (GME), and along with it, the future of the medical profession in the United States. GME--essentially medical residencies and, to a lesser extent, research fellowships--is the crossroads where career aspirations become professional choices, ...

The authors examine the future of podiatric medicine through an analysis of the characteristics of students presently enrolled in the colleges of podiatric medicine and the characteristics of college graduates from 1990 to 1995. Specific attention is also given to a number of critical issues surrounding graduate podiatric medical education. ...

OBJECTIVE: To examine the influence of sociodemographic background, medical school background, general practice characteristics and attitudes towards preventive medicine on the screening recommendations of New South Wales (NSW) general practitioners (GPs). METHODS: From the NSW Medical Board Register, a sample was obtained of all GPs who graduated between 1983 and ...