Increasing Awareness of Medical Laboratory Sciences through Summer Outreach Programs

Awareness of laboratory students of Mashhad University of Medical Sciences about human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1)

Introduction: HTLV-1 virus is a human retrovirus and it causes several chronic diseases. So far, there is not any vaccine or satisfactory treatment that has been developed for infections caused by this virus. Moreover, the best way to control the infection is prevention and the best way to prevent it is education. Therefore, our study was conducted to investigate the knowledge and attitudes of ...

Supporting the evolution of obstetric anaesthesia through outreach programs.

Increasing pneumococcal vaccination in managed care through telephone outreach.

OBJECTIVES To determine the effectiveness of a telephone reminder to increase pneumococcal vaccination in a population that had received mailed reminders and to evaluate whether the intervention effect is similar for clinics serving primarily non-Hispanic black or non-Hispanic white patient populations. STUDY DESIGN Randomized trial within a managed care network. METHODS All unvaccinated pa...

Medical Students’ Awareness of Patients’ Rights in Qom University of Medical Sciences and Health Services (2010)

Introduction: Patient rights include the duties that medical team has towards him and the total privileges, abilities or special permissions granted to patients by law. The aim of this study was to assess Qom University of Medical Sciences students’ awareness about patients’ rights. Methods: This descriptive and analytical study was performed in 2010. Subjects included 192 medical sciences stu...

Increasing awareness of Myology: it's time for its recognition as an independent discipline within the Medical Sciences

In 1891, Charcot and Bouchard – two eminent French scientists – published a famous textbook of Internal Medicine (1), which included large chapters dedicated to all branches of Medicine and Neurology. The medical specialties , as we know them today, are all derived from the Internal Medicine during the 19 th century. J.M. Charcot, who first argued the need for a specialist to direct the Chair o...