A REPORT OF MEDICAL STUDENTS ATTENDING THE 28TH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE JAPAN MEDICAL CONGRESS AS A PART OF THE OFFICIAL UNIVERSITY CURRICULUM

The Eurachem Week 2020 was scheduled for May 25–29, 2020 in Bucharest, Romania. As topic for the two-day workshop ' Quality Assurance Elements for Analytical Laboratories in the University Curriculum ' was selected by the organisers. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic the event had to be cancelled in March. In April the Executive Committee scheduled the General Assembly for May 27 and 28 and the Workshop for July 14 and 15, 2020 as electronic meetings. Both events were very well organized by Eurachem Romania.

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Training global surgery advocates: Strengthening the global surgery voice

McGill Journal of Medicine ◽

10.26443/mjm.v18i1.152 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 18 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Xiya Ma ◽

Dominique Vervoort ◽

Dan Poenaru

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

International Student ◽

Global Surgery ◽

General Assembly ◽

Quebec City ◽

Middle Income ◽

Group Activities ◽

Hands On ◽

Perceived Familiarity ◽

Small Working

Objective: To strengthen medical trainees around the world on global surgery and advocacy and help develop future generations of global surgeons, anaesthesiologists, and obstetricians.Design: Training Global Surgery Advocates (TGSA), a standardized three-day advocacy workshop developed by the International Student Surgical Network (InciSioN), was built on traditional didactic lectures, role-play exercises, small working group activities, and advocacy and diplomacy training. Assessment was done using a 5-point Likert scale for 18 components regarding the perceived familiarity, knowledge, and motivation for global surgery.Setting: The training was given in the context of the pre-general assembly of the International Federation of Medical Students Associations (IFMSA) at Université Laval, in Quebec City, Canada.Participants: Twenty-five participants were selected to attend the workshop from a pool of 52 applicants, of which 14 medical students from 7 high-income countries and 7 low- and middle-income countries.Results: An average increase of 1.73 points across all 18 workshop components was observed among participants. After the workshop, all participants agreed or strongly agreed (4.64 average) on their motivation to train other medical students in their respective countries to become global surgery advocates.Conclusion: TGSA significantly improved participants’ knowledge and advocacy skills underlying global surgery. A mixed didactic and hands-on workshop appears to be feasible, enjoyable for participants, and effective in improving medical students involvement in the emerging field of global surgery.

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A Tribute to the Late William J. Curran

The Journal of Law Medicine & Ethics ◽

10.1017/s1073110500004058 ◽

1996 ◽

Vol 24 (3) ◽

pp. 274-275

Author(s):

O. Lawrence ◽

J.D. Gostin

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Health Care ◽

Mental Illness ◽

United Nations ◽

Mental Health Care ◽

Harvard University ◽

Legal Medicine ◽

General Assembly ◽

International Institute ◽

University Professor

In the summer of 1979, a group of experts on law, medicine, and ethics assembled in Siracusa, Sicily, under the auspices of the International Commission of Jurists and the International Institute of Higher Studies in Criminal Science, to draft guidelines on the rights of persons with mental illness. Sitting across the table from me was a quiet, proud man of distinctive intelligence, William J. Curran, Frances Glessner Lee Professor of Legal Medicine at Harvard University. Professor Curran was one of the principal drafters of those guidelines. Many years later in 1991, after several subsequent re-drafts by United Nations (U.N.) Rapporteur Erica-Irene Daes, the text was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly as the Principles for the Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and for the Improvement of Mental Health Care. This was the kind of remarkable achievement in the field of law and medicine that Professor Curran repeated throughout his distinguished career.

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Assessing the development of communication skills in undergraduate medical students

Medical Education ◽

10.1046/j.1365-2923.2001.00869.x ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 35 (3) ◽

pp. 225-231 ◽

Cited By ~ 58

Author(s):

G M Humphris ◽

S Kaney

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Communication Skills ◽

Undergraduate Medical Students

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What happens to medical students who complete an honours year in public health and epidemiology?

Medical Education ◽

10.1046/j.1365-2923.2001.00774.x ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 35 (2) ◽

pp. 134-136 ◽

Cited By ~ 16

Author(s):

Jonathan S Nguyen-Van-Tam ◽

Richard F A Logan ◽

Sarah A E Logan ◽

Jennifer S Mindell

Keyword(s):

Public Health ◽

Medical Students

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Anxiety, depression and stressful life events among medical students: a prospective study in Antalya, Turkey

Medical Education ◽

10.1046/j.1365-2923.2001.00726.x ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 35 (1) ◽

pp. 12-17 ◽

Cited By ~ 146

Author(s):

Mehmet Aktekin ◽

Taha Karaman ◽

Yesim Yigiter Senol ◽

Sukru Erdem ◽

Hakan Erengin ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Prospective Study ◽

Life Events ◽

Stressful Life Events ◽

Stressful Life ◽

A Prospective Study ◽

Anxiety Depression

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Sexual harassment during medical training: the perceptions of medical students at a university medical school in Australia

Medical Education ◽

10.1046/j.1365-2923.2000.00684.x ◽

2000 ◽

Vol 34 (12) ◽

pp. 980-986 ◽

Cited By ~ 39

Author(s):

Gillian Eyres White

Keyword(s):

Medical Students ◽

Sexual Harassment ◽

Medical School ◽

Medical Training

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The AMA Guides in Pennsylvania “Post-Protz”: Act 111 and Case Law Update

Guides Newsletter ◽

10.1001/amaguidesnewsletters.2020.mayjun02 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 25 (3) ◽

pp. 12-19

Author(s):

Justin D. Beck ◽

Judge David B. Torrey

Keyword(s):

Case Law ◽

General Assembly ◽

Disability Benefits ◽

Permanent Disability ◽

Sixth Edition ◽

Legal Questions ◽

The Supreme Court ◽

Recent Edition ◽

Impairment Ratings

Abstract Medical evaluators must understand the context for the impairment assessments they perform. This article exemplifies issues that arise based on the role of impairment ratings and what edition of the AMA Guides to the Impairment of Permanent Impairment (AMA Guides) is used. This discussion also raises interesting legal questions related to retroactivity, applicability of prior precedent, and delegation. On June 20, 2017, the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania handed down its decision, Protz v. WCAB (Derry Area Sch. Dist.), which disallows use of the “most recent edition” of the AMA Guides when determining partial disability entitlement under the Pennsylvania Workers’ Compensation Act. An attempted solution was passed by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and was signed into law Act 111 on October 24, 2018. Although it affirms that the AMA Guides, Sixth Edition, must be used for impairment ratings, the law reduces the threshold for total disability benefits from 50% to 35% impairment. This legislative adjustment benefited injured workers but sparked additional litigation about whether, when, and how the adjustment should be applied (excerpts from the laws and decisions discussed by the authors are included at the end of the article). In using impairment as a threshold for permanent disability benefits, evaluators must distinguish between impairment and disability and determine an appropriate threshold; they also must be aware of the compensation and adjudication process and of the jurisdictions in which they practice.

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