Conclusions  Regionalization was associated with improved operative mortality in Ontario but not in Quebec, undermining the volume-outcome hypothesis. The Ontario quality improvement interventions likely were of little influence since patterns in regionalization and operative mortality were similar before and after year 1999

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Assessing the Volume-Outcome Hypothesis and Region-Level Quality Improvement Interventions: Pancreas Cancer Surgery in Two Canadian Provinces

Conclusions  Despite the perceived benefits expressed by respondents, administrative support for MCCs may be minimal. In particular, surgeons at community hospitals may have limited access to multidisciplinary patient care planning.

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Multidisciplinary Cancer Conferences: Identifying Opportunities to Promote Implementation

CONCLUSIONS: A brief interclerkship can improve medical students’ oral health knowledge and be engaging. More research is needed to evaluate means to sustaining the knowledge. PMID: 19582633 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Famly Medicine)

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Implementation of STFM’s "Smiles for Life" Oral Health Curriculum in a Medical School Interclerkship.

CONCLUSIONS: Various formal curricular approaches have little differential effect on students’ performance on the USMLE. PMID: 19492189 [PubMed - in process] (Source: Famly Medicine) MedWorm Message: Get the very latest Swine Flu news via the MedWorm Swine Flu RSS news feed – updated hourly from thousands of authoritative health and news sources.

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Medical school curricula: do curricular approaches affect competence in medicine?

Conclusions: Students choosing a career in EM have distinctly different priorities and influences than students entering PC and SS. The profile of students who choose EM is very similar to those choosing traditional CL specialties

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Emergency Medicine Career Choice: A Profile of Factors and Influences from the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) Graduation…

CONCLUSIONS: Though popular, ordinal rankings cannot adequately describe the multidimensional nature of a medical school’s research productivity and impact. This study provides statistics that can be used in conjunction with other sound methodologies to provide a more authentic view of a medical school’s research. The large variance of the collected data suggests that refining bibliometric data by discipline, peer groups, or journal information may provide a more precise assessment.

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An analysis of bibliometric indicators, National Institutes of Health funding, and faculty size at Association of American Medical Colleges medical…

Conclusions  Several opportunities were revealed for improving the quality of CRC screening and surgery.

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Colorectal cancer care knowledge mapping: identifying priorities for knowledge translation research

CONCLUSION: CEs and CIs appear to be promoted at different rates. The characteristics that are independently associated with earlier promotion may be helpful for institutions and individual faculty that are committed to achieving promotion efficiently. Content Type Journal ArticleCategory Original ArticlesDOI 10.1111/j.1525-1497.2005.00297.xAuthors Brent W

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A time to be promoted