Elective advice

Elective advice

any questions you have, and the dates you intend to go. Tell them how many are in your group, and what skills you can offer. If you are accepted in one placement, don't forget to let the others know you won't be coming. Once you have a confirmation, book your flights as soon as possible. If you are a student, try for student deals. For any obscure destinations, ask the contact person if they kn...

The medical student elective in Africa: advice from the field.

Safety on elective: a survey on safety advice and adverse events during electives.

The risk of students contracting HIV on electives has received much coverage. Few data exist, however, on risks of other adverse events. Medical schools gave comprehensive advice on infectious disease but little on personal safety. There were no reported parenteral infections or deaths from infection, despite cases of malaria and one needle-stick injury. Accidents were responsible for six death...

“Ramadan challenges: Fasting against medical advice

AbstractAim: Fasting against medical advice (FAMA) is a major challenge for many physicians who treat patients with diabetes during the month of Ramadan. The significance of this phenomenon has not been evaluated in Muslim populations. The goal of this study was to assess the rate and consequences of FAMA in our high-risk patients.Methods: This is a retrospective case-control study. Patients we...

An Advice for Advice Composition in AspectJ

Aspect composition often involves advice interference and this is a crucial problem in aspect oriented programming. When multiple advices are woven at the same join point, the advices often interfere with each other. Giving appropriate precedence order is a typical solution of this problem but it cannot resolve all kinds of advice interference. To address this problem, we propose a novel langua...