Foregut (Butterworth International Medical Review)

An international review of tobacco smoking among medical students.

We conducted a systematic international review of tobacco smoking habits among medical students. Particular attention was paid to countries where smoking rates have been historically well-documented in local journals, but were less often included in larger international review articles. The methodology involved a search of relevant medical subject headings, after which the reference lists of jo...

Biorthogonal Butterworth wavelets

In the paper we present a new family of biorthogonalwavelet transforms and a related library of biorthogonal symmetric wavelets. For the construction we use the interpolatory discrete splines which enable us to design perfect reconstruction filter banks related to the Butterworth filters. The construction is performed in a “lifting” manner. The proposed scheme is based on interpolation and, as ...

The International Landscape of Medical Licensing Examinations: A Typology Derived From a Systematic Review

Background National licensing examinations (NLEs) are large-scale examinations usually taken by medical doctors close to the point of graduation from medical school. Where NLEs are used, success is usually required to obtain a license for full practice. Approaches to national licensing, and the evidence that supports their use, varies significantly across the globe. This paper aims to develop a...

STATISTICS IN INTERNATIONAL MEDICAL JOURNALS OF IRAN

Brian Butterworth and Andy Tolmie

What: Our vision is to bring together three previously distinct disciplines [education, psychology and neuroscience] – to focus on a specific common problem: how to promote better learning. This will mean building a new scientific community and a new discipline, educational neuroscience. Why: We now understand better how learning organizes and reorganizes the brain, but there is very little res...