One thousand, nine hundred and seventy-seven pharmaceutical products used in the home were examined for microbial contamination. Viable micro-organisms were recovered from 14.0% of samples. Medicines used in the home are apparently not exposed to the same opportunities for contamination as those used in hospital.

The proliferation of information and literature in medicine, therapy, and pharmacy practice in general has created a need for a centralized source of indexing that enables individuals to efficiently locate this type of literature. An excellent example of this type of system would be Index Medicus. But Index Medicus is ...

A nationwide study of 24 medical and surgical specialties has been conducted by the University of Southern California School of Medicine, Division of Research in Medical Education. This article is the first in a series reporting findings for general internal medicine and 10 subspecialties of internal medicine. Populations for these ...

The 1978 Cushing Orator shows the role of rhetoric in the process by which various specialties change in response to sociological and legislative demands. He discusses the effect of applying concepts of restraint of trade to medicine, and welcomes a closer liaison through the American College of Surgeons between general ...

During the past eight years, since its inception in 1969, the specialty of Family Medicine has gradually been developing toward maturity. With the specialty now firmly based in biomedical science, behavioral science, and patient management, it is prepared to accept a place of full responsibility in the spectrum of health ...

Using data from a longitudinal study of medical students at Jefferson Medical College, the authors analyzed trends in senior student interest in primary care specialties between 1971 and 1975 and selected background characteristics and performance levels of students choosing family medicine compared with those in other specialties. The proportion of ...

Limitation of practice implies specialization and the delivery of services by a specialist who has been recognized for his expertise through formal advanced education, experience, and/or examination. Prosthodontists in limited practice are currently influenced by problems related to patient referrals, third-party payment for services, and competence certification. Perhaps the most ...

Exposure of all medical students to selected anesthesiology-related subjects provides better acquaintance with the procedures and practices of the specialty. Airway management, methods of cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and patient monitoring are among the anesthesiologist's technics that have widespread applicability to all areas of medicine. The pharmacology of the many drugs, not ...

The career status of 149 graduates of the University of Toronto faculty of medicine who entered in 1958 and graduated in 1962 was determined in 1973. The response rate to the mailed questionnaire was 96.6%. Of the graduates 4.7% were not practising medicine, 2.0% stated that medicine was not their ...

This article describes how the tendency of post-Civil War medicine accorded with general social tendencies. Doctors' attitudes toward women reflected their anxiety about female emancipation and changing sex roles. The specialty of gynecology emerged in significant part as a reaction to female emancipation. The strong surgical emphasis in American gynecology ...

A proposal for the development of Canadian veterinary education and of the organization of the profession is described. There should be one veterinary school with four branches (the current colleges). A student would train at any college in comparative medicine for two and one-half years and then train for 12 ...

As we launch into the second volume of <it>InnovAiT</it>, it is easy to forget that training for general practice became compulsory less than 30 years ago. General practice is a relatively new specialty of medicine, and the National Health Service that we work in, together with its concept of health ...

Specialty preferences were explored in relation to personality, sex, and examination performance of recent graduates at Edinburgh. Potential surgeons were almost exclusively male, and were not academically outstanding. They were more decided about their future career than any other group, and they were relatively low in anxiety level.Many of the ...

Much of the management of uncomplicated allergic disease has fallen within the province of the general practitioner and the specialist who does not limit his practice to allergy. This is the result of the simplification of standard techniques, the availability of excellent post-graduate instruction and the increasing quality of commercially ...