Call for action: The critical need to improve injury research and treatment

Critical care cardiology research: a call to action.

Childhood injury: call for action.

We aim to raise awareness of the burden of avoidable death and disability attributable to childhood injury in Europe in general and Croatia in particular. As formerly common causes of childhood death have declined, injuries have become the most important single cause of death in childhood in European countries. Yet, there are large differences between countries, and especially between the easte...

How to Improve the Quality of Morning Report; Department of Internal Medicine, An action research

Background: Morning reports (MRs) are commonly used as an efficient technique in Medical Education. This study was intended to assess the developmental process following Iranian definable standards in the Internal Medicine Department, Imam Reza General Hospital, Mashhad, Iran. Methods: Following an initial one-month assessment through direct observation of morning reports held in Imam Reza Hosp...

The Bamako call to action: research for health.

Last week in Bamako, the Government of Mali received the Global Ministerial Forum on Research for Health. In truth, the hopes for this conference had been limited. The world is struggling to reach the Millennium Development Goals. New and complex health threats are emerging (chronic diseases and climate change, for example). And the current global financial crisis threatens to curtail the ambit...

the differential effects of debate and media analysis as relate to enhancing efl learners critical thinking ability and writing performances

critical thinking ability has an important role in education. accordingly, scholars around the world are searching for new ways for teaching and improving students critical thinking ability. in line with the studies in efl contexts supporting the positive relationship between critical thinking and writing performances, this study investigated the differential effects of halverson’s critical thi...