Fourth year medical student, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ont. member
of the faculty) throughout the preclinical and clinical years. Students are encouraged to think …

There exists in academic medicine a core ethical issue that is seldom pursued: trainees are
frequently not the best person in the operating room at a given intervention being performed …

CONCLUSIONS It has been suggested that the hidden curriculum can be influenced by
increasing awareness, by encouraging self-reflection, and by role modeling. 13 Although a …

Surgical trainees who may soon be sitting their examinations will be interested to know of a
number of changes and phased improvements taking place in the Wellcome Museum of …

In the present study, Burney et al. sought to determine whether the effort put forth by surgical
educators to address students' concerns regarding the surgical clerkship have effected …

Being falsely advertised is unethical not only because it is dishonest, but also because it
creates false expectations in vulnerable patients. In North America, we no longer even …

Medical ethics and law are essential topics that should be included in medical residency
programs. However, surgery training programs in Iran lack a specific course in medical …

Surgical training has a long history of unique educational approaches and communities of
practice, historically driven by exclusion of surgeons from the medical world. 1 The …

An underlying goal during surgery clerkships is to attract the best and the brightest medical
students to pursue careers in surgery. 1 How-ever, studies report that specific exposure to …

Background The field of global health is rapidly expanding in many medical centers across
the US. As a result, medical students have increasing opportunities to incorporate global …