Background: Specialty career choice is a critical decision for medical students, and research
has examined factors influencing particular specialties or assessed it from a demographic …

Exposure to environmental contaminants, particularly pesticides, may be an important
etiological factor in Parkinson's disease (PD); and evidence suggests a role for microglia-…

Introduction: The move to competency-based medical education has created new challenges
for medical teachers, including the need to reflect on and further develop their own …

Background: The importance of faculty development to improve clinicians’ teaching skills
has been well articulated in the literature. There are few objective measures of the impact of …

Lifestyle issues including physical activity, diet, smoking, alcohol consumption, and self-reported
stress have all been shown to predispose people to higher risk of cardiovascular …

OBJECTIVE To track and describe career choice decisions of medical students as they
progressed through their undergraduate training. DESIGN Quantitative survey of each class at 5 …

We describe the impact of an interprofessional education programme in mental health for
professionals in six rural Canadian communities. The 10‐session programme, offered primarily …

Adaptive expertise has been promoted as an emerging model of expertise in health
professions education in response to the inherent complexities of patient care; however, as the …

This paper reports on the results of a demonstration project that examined the role of
telehealth/telemedicine (hereafter referred to as telehealth) in providing interdisciplinary mental …

Phenomenon: A growing number of women are entering the medical workforce, yet their
distribution across medical specialties remains nonuniform. We sought to describe how culture, …