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Medical education
Governing the reform of the medical internship
Implementing the recommendations of the Review of Medical Intern Training will be challenging and will require reconsideration of medical training governance
Susannah F Ahern MB BS(Hons), MBA, FRACMA · Peter T Morley FRACP, FANZCA, FCICM · Geoffrey J McColl MEd, PhD, FRACP
“Teaching by humiliation” and mistreatment of medical students in clinical rotations: a pilot study
Practices associated with humiliating medical students persist in contemporary medical education, more commonly in subtle than overt forms
Karen M Scott PhD, MA, BEd · Patrina HY Caldwell BMed, FRACP, PhD · Elizabeth H Barnes MStat, BAppSc · Jenny Barrett DEd, MEd, BA
Rural clinical school outcomes: what is success and how long do we wait for it?
Increasing the national quota of students from rural backgrounds
David Garne · Mark Wilson · Ian G Wilson
Patient privacy and Latin
To the Editor: The recent letters1-5 on the “lamentable decline in the use of both Latin and Greek terms in medical practice”4 activated a not-too-distant memory for me. In the 1980s, the Department of Academic General Practice at the University of Western Australia was an orphan, struggling for resources and a toehold in the medical curriculum. Having exhausted all avenues of progress, I managed to obtain an appointment with the Vice-Chancellor. His prior meeting that day had been with leaders of the Greek community, who trooped out of his office looking rather glum. They were unhappy that ongoing financial support would not be provided for the teaching of Modern Greek at the University. That night, I had a dream. In it, the V-C returned home to his wife, who asked, “And how was your day, Bob?” “Oh, just like any other”, he replied. “Kamien from General Practice was in, complaining about the demise of classical Greek from the medical curriculum”. The next day, I rang the V-C to tell him about the dream. He laughed. I have wondered, since, whether such unlikely events may have strengthened his resolve to provide the toehold that our Department so desperately needed.
Max Kamien