Is a change in vocal loudness a first step towards becoming a medical doctor?

Becoming a doctor.

Medical training cannot be equated with merely studying for a degree. It encompasses much more, challenging one's values, self perception and perspective on life itself. During five years at medical school, the individual irreversibly alters to become "a medic", not just "a student of medicine", no matter how much detachment from the course and its associated lifestyle the individual has endeav...

The Lee Silverman Voice Treatment Improves Vocal loudness in Early Persian Parkinson’s Patients: A Pilot Study

Objectives: In the early stages, most Parkinson’s patients display some degrees of voice and speech disorders. Speech disorders can negatively affect social interactions and human life, thus treatment plans for the disorders in the early stages might be further beneficial than the late stages. Therefore, we aimed to investigate on the effect of an intervention on Persian patients with early mil...

What is behind a student's choice for becoming a doctor?

PURPOSE To determine the reasons for choosing the medical profession by interviewing freshmen medical students from the Faculty of Medicine, University of São Paulo and investigating their socio-economic and psychological profiles, as well as to determine whether there are gender differences. METHOD One hundred and sixty three freshmen medical students answered a questionnaire regarding their...

Becoming a “Medical Salesman”

Understanding Core Native Human Effective Components in Crisis Management Is a Step Forward Towards Increasing Resiliency and Decreasing Stress Especially in Sudden Crises as a Sustainable Development Framework

Background: In different crises without any exception, especially sudden emergencies, the role of Human Effective Components (HECs), Native Human Effective Components (NHECs) (belonging to a specific space and location), and especially Core Native Human Effective Components (CNHECs); and among CNHECs, level of management skills, ignorance, and manager’s mind bandwidth are of vital importance in...