Developing an Assessment Framework for Essential Internal Medicine Subspecialty Topics

Postmortem medicine--an essential new new subspecialty.

used is a reflection of the use of euphemisms in medicine. Who but the gastroenterologist could see a foodstuff in a pathological specimen of stool as in redcurrant jelly or chocolate ? This last explanation may be considered the most likely, since, in dealing with unpleasantness, a natural defence mechanism is sublimation -to turn the unpleasant into something much more appealing. In other wor...

Internal bickering over internal subspecialty.

Associations between subspecialty fellowship interest and knowledge of internal medicine: A hypothesis-generating study of internal medicine residents

BACKGROUND Little is known about whether and how medical knowledge relates to interest in subspecialty fellowship training. The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between residents' interest in subspecialty fellowship training and their knowledge of internal medicine (IM). METHODS A questionnaire was emailed to 48 categorical postgraduate-year (PGY) two and three residents...

an investigation about the appropriate stochastic modeling framework for agricultural insurance pricing

با توجه به اینکه بیمه محصولات کشاورزی در ایران بیشتر جنبه ای حمایتی دارد و خسارات گزارش شده عموما بیش از حق بیمه های دریافت شده است، در این پایان نامه به جهت تعیین قیمت بیمه محصولات کشاورزی (گندم دیم) از فرآیندهای نوفه شلیک به عنوان مدلی مناسب استفاده شده است. بر اساس داده های صندوق بیمه کشاورزی از خسارات اعلام شده در سال زراعی 1388-1389 گندم دیم، در این پایان نامه حق بیمه خالص و ناخالص این محص...

Developing an Assessment Tool for Nursing Students` General Clinical Performance

Introduction: The necessity of valid and reliable assessment tools is one of the most emphasized issues in literature related to nursing students` clinical assessment. But it is believed that the present tools are mostly not valid and reliable, and can not measure students` performances properly. The aim of this study was to design a valid and reliable assessment tool for evaluation of nursing ...