Behavioral sciences and medical education

Centre for Medical and Health Sciences Education

The proposed study will measure and characterize early retinal vessel changes in persons with diabetes and persons at high risk of diabetes (impaired fasting glucose [IFG], impaired glucose tolerance [IGT], and the metabolic syndrome) in the Australian Diabetes, Obesity and Lifestyle Study (AusDiab), a population-based study of risk factors and complications of diabetes. Specifi c Aims of the s...

Kahler's research bridges behavioral/social sciences and medical care.

PROVIDENCE – For Christopher Kahler, professor of behavior and social sciences at Brown, the path from poet to psychologist intersected in New Mexico. Upon graduation from Brown in 1991, with a concentration in literature and creative writing, he drove cross-country, stopped to visit a friend in Santa Fe, and decided to stay awhile. He found a job working with adolescents in an addiction treatm...

Basic sciences curriculum in medical education

Introduction: Traditional methods are generally used for teaching basic science courses at Shiraz Medical School. Such courses are taught during the first and second years of a seven-year medical program. The goal of this study was to analyze teachers and students’ perceptions of basic science teaching in medical education.Methods: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted at the colleg...

Medical Sciences Education based on Religious Spiritualism

the term “spirituality” has been proposed to denote the notion of intellectuality. Actually, the former has been derived from the Latin words “spiritus” (means breath) and “spirare” (means inhaling or breathing). Given the Latin translations of the New Testament, the term “spiritualis” or spiritual person is an individual whose life is dominated or influenced by the Holy Spirit or God (1).

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