12, 20 & 5: A Doctor's Year in Vietnam

Actinomycetoma in a 60-Year-Old Woman for 20 Years

Mycetoma is a chronic and pustular infection usually involves foot. Mycetoma in Iran is not common and most cases have been reported from the South and North of Iran. The objective of present study was to review the mycetoma and the distribution of its etiologic agents in Iran. Moreover, a 60-year-old woman with actinomycetoma lesions in her left foot was presented. Direct smear of the grains s...

A levels and intelligence as predictors of medical careers in UK doctors: 20 year prospective study.

OBJECTIVE To assess whether A level grades (achievement) and intelligence (ability) predict doctors' careers. DESIGN Prospective cohort study with follow up after 20 years by postal questionnaire. SETTING A UK medical school in London. PARTICIPANTS 511 doctors who had entered Westminster Medical School as clinical students between 1975 and 1982 were followed up in January 2002. MAIN OUT...

Impact of a 20-year collaborative approach to increasing the production of rural doctors in Thailand

Shortage and maldistribution of the health workforce has remained an important concern for health systems in many countries.1-3 In Thailand, different government interventions and efforts mostly through increasing production from major medical schools were successively put in place over the second half of 20th century mainly to address rural-urban uneven distribution and internal brain drain.4 ...

Multivisceral Hydatidosis in a 5-Year-Old Boy

Neonatal Infections: a 5-Year Analysis in a Neonatal Care Unit in North East of Iran

Background: Neonatal infections are one of the major causes of death in Iran. Since identifying the risk factors, types, site, bacterial causes, and case fatality rate of an infection can be effective in selecting preventive and therapeutic methods, and appropriate supportive measures, this study aimed to investigate the aforementioned factors in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) of Ghaem...