Faculty, Medical
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

An integrated approach to evaluate faculty members' research performance.

30 Oct 2009 Medical school administrations need a widely acceptable method of assessing research performance of faculty to make management decisions. The challenge is to identify metrics that allow for comparison across fields. Level of extramural funding, ... Read more...

A set of principles, developed by residents, to guide Canadian residency education.

30 Oct 2009 With so much invested in the clinical competency of physicians, adequate and appropriate mechanisms are needed to ensure that educational systems provide the highest-quality training possible and are responsive both to the changing demands of the ... Read more...

Is there a relationship between high-quality performance in major teaching hospitals and residents' knowledge of quality and patient safety?

30 Oct 2009 PURPOSE: The relationship of the quality of teaching hospitals' clinical performance to resident education in quality and patient safety is unclear. The authors studied residents' knowledge of these areas in major teaching hospitals with higher- and ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Faculty, Medical'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• An integrated approach to evaluate faculty members' research performance. 30 Oct 2009
• A set of principles, developed by residents, to guide Canadian residency education. 30 Oct 2009
• Is there a relationship between high-quality performance in major teaching hospitals and residents' knowledge of quality and patient safety? 30 Oct 2009
• Academic medicine should start at home. 30 Oct 2009
• Academic medicine as a bridge to peace: building Arab and Israeli cooperation. 30 Oct 2009
• How academic medicine can contribute to peace-building efforts worldwide. 30 Oct 2009
• Building a health-peace movement: academic medicine's role in generating solutions to global problems. 30 Oct 2009
• Commentary: Evaluating faculty productivity in research: an interesting approach, but questions remain. 30 Oct 2009
• The impact of pass/fail grading. 30 Oct 2009
• Why start an academy? 30 Oct 2009
• Remembering Bernett L. Johnson, Jr, MD. 30 Oct 2009
• Carol Greider: unravelling the science of telomeres and telomerase. Interview by Stephen Pincock. 22 Oct 2009
• Enabling women in medicine to reach the top. 22 Oct 2009
• Mission impossible: the quest for medical school. 11 Oct 2009
• Simon Chapman. Interview by Stephen Pincock. 8 Oct 2009
• [The beginnings and the development of heart surgery in Debrecen; the consequence of Professor József Schnitzler's initiative] 2 Oct 2009
• Merging departments: dealing with the good, the bad, and the ugly. 29 Sep 2009
• Interim department chairs in academic medicine. 29 Sep 2009
• Medical schools in the United States, 2008-2009. 21 Sep 2009
• Why medical educators may be failing at feedback. 21 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Faculty, Medical'

Definition: The teaching staff and members of the administrative staff having academic rank in a medical school.

Descriptor UI: D005180

Alternative terms: Faculty, Medical; Medical Faculty; Faculties, Medical; Medical Faculties;

Allowable Qualifiers: history; organization & administration; standards; statistics & numerical data; supply & distribution; utilization;

Tree Number: I02.463.373; M01.526.339.373; M01.526.485.375; N02.360.375;

History Note: 66

Technical Notes: Manual 30.9; see also note under FACULTY; DF: FACULTY MED