Now we are 30: 10 more years of MASCC.

This paper chronicles the third decade of MASCC from 2010. There was a generational change in this decade, building on the solid foundation of the founders. It included the first female President, and a new Executive Director with a background in strategy and business development and operations as applied to healthcare. The headquarters moved from Copenhagen to Toronto. The first meeting to be held outside of Europe or North America was held in Adelaide, Australia, and the membership in the Asia Pacific region expanded. A program of international affiliates saw national supportive care organisations formally link with MASCC. In cancer supportive care, there was a raft of new toxicities to manage as immunotherapies were added to conventional cytotoxic treatment. There was also a greater emphasis on the psychosocial needs of patients and families. New MASCC groups were formed to respond to this evolution in cancer management. The MASCC journal, Supportive Care in Cancer, continued to grow in impact, and MASCC published two editions of a textbook of supportive care and survivorship. The decade ended with the challenge of the COVID-19 pandemic, but that served to highlight the importance of good supportive care to patients with cancer.

El rol directivo en la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Matanzas en cada una de sus etapas / The managing role in the University of the Medical Sciences of Matanzas in each organizational stage

RESUMEN Introducción: en la organización de las universidades, el saber y el poder se han administrado a través de cadenas lineales ascendentes, desde las cátedras y jefes de departamentos hasta el consejo Universitario y el rector. La actual universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Matanzas ha pasado por diferentes etapas o períodos y durante este proceso sus directivos han recibido diferentes nomenclaturas en función de la estructura asumida. A pesar del importante rol que tienen los gerentes o directivos del sistema, no se ha encontrado ningún documento en el que se recojan nombres y funciones desempeñadas, lo cual se considera importante para la historia de la Universidad. Objetivo: proponer dejar asentado los principales directivos del proceso docente educativo en la universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Matanzas en cada una de sus etapas. Materiales y métodos: se han utilizado métodos cualitativos del nivel teórico y del empírico, de este último las entrevistas y la revisión de documentos. Resultados: la investigación muestra definidos seis períodos o etapas en el desarrollo de la docencia médica en la provincia, su estructura organizativa y sus directivos especificando especialidad y períodos en que ejercieron su labor de dirección. Conclusiones: en todo el tiempo transcurrido desde los inicios de la docencia médica hasta la actualidad, se ha contado con equipos de dirección que han variado según los momentos históricos, pero que entre todos han logrado el objetivo de hacer perdurar la docencia médica en el territorio y que la misma haya alcanzado altos niveles de calidad (AU).

ABSTRACT Introduction: in the organization of the universities, knowledge and management have been administered through lineally ascendant chains, from the chairs and professorships to the University Council and headmaster. The current University of Medical Sciences of Matanzas has gone through different stages and periods, and during this process its managing staff has received different denominations in dependence on the structure assumed by educational center. In spite of the important role played by the managing staff and headmasters, no document has been found recording their full names and performed functions, what is very important for the history of the University. Objective: to propose recording names and data of the main managers of the teaching-educative process in the University of Medical Sciences of Matanzas. Material and methods: Qualitative methods of the theoretical and empiric levels have been used, interviews and documental reviews among the last ones. Results: the research showed six well defined periods or stages in the development of medical teaching in the province of Matanzas, its organizational structure and members of the managing staff specifying medical specialty and periods of time they occupied that function. Conclusions: in the period of time passed from the beginning of the medical teaching and nowadays, the managing staff has varied according to the historical times, but the common effort has allowed the continuation of medical teaching in the province and the high quality levels it has reached (AU).

El rol directivo en la Universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Matanzas en cada una de sus etapas / The managing role in the University of the Medical Sciences of Matanzas in each organizational stage

RESUMEN Introducción: en la organización de las universidades, el saber y el poder se han administrado a través de cadenas lineales ascendentes, desde las cátedras y jefes de departamentos hasta el consejo Universitario y el rector. La actual universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Matanzas ha pasado por diferentes etapas o períodos y durante este proceso sus directivos han recibido diferentes nomenclaturas en función de la estructura asumida. A pesar del importante rol que tienen los gerentes o directivos del sistema, no se ha encontrado ningún documento en el que se recojan nombres y funciones desempeñadas, lo cual se considera importante para la historia de la Universidad. Objetivo: proponer dejar asentado los principales directivos del proceso docente educativo en la universidad de Ciencias Médicas de Matanzas en cada una de sus etapas. Materiales y métodos: se han utilizado métodos cualitativos del nivel teórico y del empírico, de este último las entrevistas y la revisión de documentos. Resultados: la investigación muestra definidos seis períodos o etapas en el desarrollo de la docencia médica en la provincia, su estructura organizativa y sus directivos especificando especialidad y períodos en que ejercieron su labor de dirección. Conclusiones: en todo el tiempo transcurrido desde los inicios de la docencia médica hasta la actualidad, se ha contado con equipos de dirección que han variado según los momentos históricos, pero que entre todos han logrado el objetivo de hacer perdurar la docencia médica en el territorio y que la misma haya alcanzado altos niveles de calidad.

ABSTRACT Introduction: in the organization of the universities, knowledge and management have been administered through lineally ascendant chains, from the chairs and professorships to the University Council and headmaster. The current University of Medical Sciences of Matanzas has gone through different stages and periods, and during this process its managing staff has received different denominations in dependence on the structure assumed by educational center. In spite of the important role played by the managing staff and headmasters, no document has been found recording their full names and performed functions, what is very important for the history of the University. Objective: to propose recording names and data of the main managers of the teaching-educative process in the University of Medical Sciences of Matanzas. Material and methods: Qualitative methods of the theoretical and empiric levels have been used, interviews and documental reviews among the last ones. Results: the research showed six well defined periods or stages in the development of medical teaching in the province of Matanzas, its organizational structure and members of the managing staff specifying medical specialty and periods of time they occupied that function. Conclusions: in the period of time passed from the beginning of the medical teaching and nowadays, the managing staff has varied according to the historical times, but the common effort has allowed the continuation of medical teaching in the province and the high quality levels it has reached.

International Board Members of the American Journal of Ophthalmology.

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the "modern" American Journal of Ophthalmology (AJO). International influence has been present since the beginnings of the journal, and the AJO had boasted a number of foreign editorial board members and collaborators over the years. Within the article we present sketches of the deceased international board members of the AJO, particularly of Sir Stewart Duke-Elder, Pierre Amalric, Joaquin Barraquer, and Yasuo Tano. Although the AJO is American by name and with respect to the majority of contributions and readers, the international board members and collaborators have helped to maintain its international character and worldwide level of recognition. As the United States is a competitive society that values progress and success partially owing to foreign influence and immigrants, similarly the international contributions help to support and provoke the dynamic development of the AJO.

A delayed inheritance: the Medical Board of Victoria's 75-year wait to find doctors guilty of "infamous conduct in a professional respect".

The Medical Board of Victoria (Board) was created in 1844 to register "legally qualified medical practitioners". It was not until 1933, however, that the Board attained the power to remove from its register a doctor who had engaged in "infamous conduct in a professional respect" (the power), even though the General Council of Medical Education and Registration of the United Kingdom on which the Board was modelled had been granted the power 75 years earlier. This article argues that the delay in the Board's inheritance was attributable to successive Victorian Parliaments' distrust of the Board and that this attitude was unwarranted, at least from early in the 20th century. The article maintains that the granting of the power to the Board was a crucial event in the history of the regulation of the Victorian medical profession. This is illustrated both by the difficulty encountered by the medical profession in dealing with doctors' unethical conduct before 1933, and the Board's concern to use its new authority responsibly and appropriately to protect the public and the profession in the three years after it attained the power.

[Examinandi, doctors and medical councils. Reform proposals concerning surgico-medical education and examinations at the University of Vienna around 1800]. / Examinandi, Doktoren und medizinische Kollegien. Reformpläne für die medizinisch-chirurgische Lehre und Prüfungsordnung an der Universität Wien um 1800.

This essay examines the workings of the so called Court Committee for the Revision of University Studies. The main duty of this institution was to evaluate the structure of the whole educational system of the Habsburg Empire. These records have not received much notice hitherto from historians of medicine. Nevertheless, they deserve attention, as they are quite full of information regarding the "how" of medical education and health care management around 1800. Johann Peter Frank, at that time professor at the Medical Faculty of Vienna was responsible for reform proposals. His deliberations shed fresh light not only on the structures of Viennese Medical Faculty itself but also on different educational policies in the medical sciences in Central Europe around 1800.