A call to reform medical curricula to sustain the NHS

from linguistics to literature: a linguistic approach to the study of linguistic deviations in the turkish divan of shahriar

chapter i provides an overview of structural linguistics and touches upon the saussurean dichotomies with the final goal of exploring their relevance to the stylistic studies of literature. to provide evidence for the singificance of the study, chapter ii deals with the controversial issue of linguistics and literature, and presents opposing views which, at the same time, have been central to t...

Let’s Raise a Half-Full Glass to the Zombie NHS: A Response to Recent Commentaries

a frame semantic approach to the study of translating cultural scripts in salingers franny and zooey

the frame semantic theory is a nascent approach in the area of translation studies which goes beyond the linguistic barriers and helps us to incorporate cognitive and cultural factors to the study of translation. based on rojos analytical model (2002b), which centered in the frames or knowledge structures activated in the text, the present research explores the various translation problems that...

Alteration of Abused Drugs Should be Added to the Medical Curricula

Drug abuse is prevalent in all countries across the world and  induces variety of adverse effects (1). Health problems arising from drug abuse commonly cause significant health challenges in the affected population and deteriorate many aspects of the patients’ performance and quality of life. Comorbidities are discovered in 60 to 75% of addict patients, suffering from various drug-related disor...

Curricula reform needed to develop more tech-savvy physicians.

the ability of future physicians to utilize electronic technologies for health purposes, Canada Health Infoway and the Association of Faculties of Medicine of Canada (AFMC) will examine curricula reform at the nation’s medical schools. Calling ehealth technologies “the new stethoscope,” Jennifer Zelmer, Infoway’s senior vice-president for clinical adoption and innovation, told a symposium in To...