The outcomes assessment movement has the potential to significantly enhance the practice of medicine by enabling physicians to identify and implement what works. It represents a rich wellspring of material for investigation and is already proving to be an important source of research support. As such, it also represents a ...

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 and teaching hospitals are under pressure to conform to the market while preserving the traditional academic missions of teaching and research. ...

The Military Unique Curricula (MUC) was published in 1988 as a guideline for instruction at military residencies in military-specific topics. Questionnaires were sent to 464 military family practice residency graduates from 1987-1990 to evaluate the degree of implementation of the MUC and attitudes and logistical factors relevant to military medicine ...

/ Results from a survey of power utility biologists indicate that terrestrial biodiversity is considered a major issue by only a few utilities; however, a majority believe it may be a future issue. Over half of the respondents indicated that their company is involved in some management for biodiversity, and ...

The comparative molecular field analysis steric field of a single "topomeric" conformer is introduced as a molecular diversity descriptor particularly useful for combinatorial chemistry involving variations around a fixed "core". Using this new descriptor, 736 commercially available thiols are divided into 231 bioisosteric clusters, whose compositions agree at least as ...

The purpose of this study was to identify the characteristics of physicians who chose academic medicine as a career. A questionnaire was sent to all graduates of the University of Kentucky College of Medicine who held full-time positions in academic medical centers (n = 143). Ninety graduates (63%) returned usable ...

At present we are on the threshold of an enormous change in clinical practice. The application of molecular medicine has already started and the area of growth factor biology is particularly relevant to this endeavor (Figure 6) (Jankowski and Polak 1996). Perhaps the major limitation to this process is the ...

Medicine has, in recent years, incorporated wave after wave of new scientific discoveries and technologies. Molecular medicine is one of these technologies and shows a dramatic example of the impact of advances in basic science. Advances in molecular biology have revolutionized daily clinical practice, particularly in developed countries, such that ...

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The rapidity and the magnitude of progress in molecular biology slipped by many of us practicing surgeons. Although articles about molecular medicine appear regularly in our surgical literature, for many of us, their content is rather mysterious. The articles often end with a glossary, because most readers do not understand ...

Thoracic surgery is undergoing major changes. In addition to the well publicized political and economic upheavals, our patients and the diseases targeted are rapidly evolving. Much of the change is driven by an explosion of new biology that many in the field have little or no familiarity with. As molecular ...

The purpose of this study was to assess the current computer literacy and future computer needs of emergency medicine residents and faculty to aid in developing a computer literacy curriculum. All emergency medicine residents and full-time faculty from a random sample of emergency medicine residencies were mailed questionnaires assessing current ...

Computers in Healthecare announces four new Pioneers for 1993. They join a distinguished list of 17 CIH Pioneers who have received this honor since 1990. These new Pioneers, along with their Pioneer colleagues, will be honored May 12 at the 1993 Computers in Healthcare Conference and Exposition in Hilton Head, ...

Molecular medicine refers to the application of the tools of modern molecular biology to the practice of medicine. The impact of molecular medicine will be increasingly felt by the practicing clinician as increased understanding of disease etiology, significantly improved diagnostic methods and patient care techniques designed to affect a cure ...

There is widespread concern about the commitment and ability of physicians to enter careers in academic medicine. We studied MEDLINE citations by 150 academically trained pediatricians to determine whether they remained in academic medicine and to assess the nature of their contribution. We identified 2098 citations by 122 of the ...

There have been few scientists who have had a greater impact on the history of vector biology than Sir Patrick Manson (1844-1922). By demonstrating that mosquitoes became infected with microfilariae in the process of taking a blood meal, he became the first to prove an association between insects and pathogens ...

The effects of Azone and lauryl alcohol on the permeability of shed snakeskin were examined. Permeability of a variety of compounds through shed snakeskin was increased after Azone or lauryl alcohol pretreatment but the magnitude of the enhancement varied depending on the lipophilicity and the molecular size of the permeant. ...

Biosemiotics is presented as an interdisciplinary approach to the diversity and irregularity of living systems. Emphasizing the interconnectedness by a multitude of signals as a hallmark of life, it goes beyond the scope of a new discipline. As an overarching concept and a new perspective it should be able to ...

This pilot study evaluates the consistency of experts' ratings of students' performances on the National Board of Medical Examiners' Computer Based Examination (CBX) cases and the relationship of those ratings to the CBX's scoring algorithm. The authors were investigating whether an automated scoring algorithm can adequately assess an examinee's management ...

A small lightweight X-ray machine and processor are needed for use in military medicine for humanitarian service missions, training exercises, and even tactical situations. Size and weight have frequently been a limiting factor for the use of X-ray equipment in military medicine. The large size and great weight of X-ray ...

One of us introduces a chronobiology course to students at the University of Milan, Italy, with a succinct statement that may well serve to summarize the foregoing 24 points. Its few lines distill the preceding details and formulate the raison d'être of Chronobiology: Chronobiology is: not only a science in ...

There is no doubt that any improvement in practice efficiency should release valuable time for both the dentist and staff to enable them to look after patients. Computers are thus an obvious subject to include in Dentessence because they can improve efficiency. Yet so often all computers seem to do ...

Three pilot studies looked at women who had not attended for cervical screening following a computer-generated invitation to a health authority clinic. From these a typology of reasons for non-attendance for computer-managed screening has been developed, specifying inaccessibility, ineligibility, unsuitability, failure of communications, misclassification and refusal because of practical problems, ...

This review examines the awards of Nobel Prizes for Medicine or Physiology discipline between 1901 and 1987, in order to evaluate the advances made in biomedical sciences in the twentieth century. A total of 78 awards had been made amounting to 144 laureates. Countrywise, scientists from the USA lead the ...

Teaching computer literacy to library patrons is an entirely appropriate activity for librarians in their role as liaisons between information and those who are seeking it. At the Norris Medical Library of the University of Southern California there are four main computer activities: information management workshops, provision of a microcomputer ...

Computers should play an important role in mammography screening. This paper demonstrates the ability of a low-cost microcomputer-based data management system to speed up and make more efficient many aspects of both day-to-day and overall operation of a mammography screening practice. Specific computer procedures are described in sufficient detail to ...

Computer technology has advanced rapidly over the past 30 years as the computer has been more and more integrated into the practice of medicine. Current horizons of research have begun to make use of this newer technology in 1986. The numerous amounts of change and advances in computer systems with ...

Recent reports predicting the future of veterinary practice give reason for concern. They point out the challenges to the profession: improve practice management, increase client visitation, improve income, practice better medicine. The computer is the tool that will give the practitioner the ability to do this. The decision to invest ...

Alarm has been expressed at recently presented evidence showing that diminishing numbers of physicians are entering academic careers. The experience of the cardiology training program at a university medical center between 1970 and 1984 was reviewed to determine the career paths chosen by its trainees. During the study period, 135 ...

In this practice, with a family practitioner committee list of 9726 patients, we use a computer register for recall, screening, morbidity data, audit, and repeat prescribing. The computing techniques used to achieve accuracy in maintaining the register are described. After one year of full use the register was validated by ...

Ultrasonic research in biology and medicine, both fundamental and applied, has become so vast in scope, that a mere listing of specific subject-areas would take up too much space. This article is intended to give an overview of Soviet scientists' contribution to the field, with the emphasis on the most ...

To climb the academic ladder, one must know the rules of the game and play by those rules. Although there are many factors that determine a faculty rise, the most important are inherent in the productivity of the faculty, as assessed by the school organization, and in comparison to other ...

Although the benefits of a central computer in the operation of a successful radiology department have been well documented, there has been no information regarding the use of the personal computer by the radiology manager. The personal computer is specifically designed to be used by one person and does not ...

Data are presented from two surveys where a 26-item questionnaire was used to measure patients' attitudes to diagnostic computers and to medical computers in general. The first group of respondents were 229 patients who had been given outpatient appointments at a hospital general medical clinic specializing in gastrointestinal problems, where ...

Molecular biology has uncovered informational processes which broadly apply in medicine. The points of attack range from diagnosis at the most fundamental level of information flow to the production of therapeutic agents. This is promoting movement from serendipitous strategies of advance to those of predictive rational clinical design. Specific examples ...

This section, Computer Medicine, will regularly bring to the attention of MEDICAL INSTRUMENTATION's readers information of general interest about applications of computers in medicine. The content and format of the section will vary from time to time and will include reports, news items, abstracts, book reviews, and original contributions submitted ...

Intrapartum hemorrhage can be life threatening at worst; at best it is an obstetrical emergency. This article outlines the main causes-uterine atony, lacerations, retained placental fragment, abruptio placentae and placenta previa-together with the steps to take in managing these acute conditions.

The great advances in biochemistry and molecular biology, the development of physical organic chemistry, and the availability of large computers are creating opportunities for restructuring medicinal chemistry. The enormous volume of scientific results relevant to medicinal chemistry which appear with each new round of the journals forces us to make ...

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Chicago, Dept. of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, June 2003.

The monthly journal Bulletin of Experimental Biology and Medicine, published by Springer New York, publishes original peer-reviewed research which includes the subject areas of physiology, biochemistry, biophysics, pharmacology, immunology, microbiology, genetics and oncology. More recently it also covers biogerontology and human ecology. It also includes a quarterly journal called Cell ...

Patients with long-term conditions (LTCs) often take many prescribed drugs. A specialist nurse and pharmacist at a Milton Keynes practice identified the need for a more coordinated medication service for patients with LTCs who take multiple medicines. Adopting a holistic approach, they set up a joint medication management project. This ...

The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of the contingency manager (teacher or pupil) on a pupil's academic response rate. The results of two such experiments disclosed that higher academic rates occurred when the pupil arranged the contingency requirements than when the teacher specified them. A third ...