Medical Lasers: Science and Clinical Practice

Humanity before Science: Narrative Medicine, Clinical Practice, and Medical Education.

Medical ethics and medical practice: a social science view.

This paper argues that two characteristics of social life impinge importantly upon medical attempts to maintain high ethical standards. The first is the tension between the role of ethics in protecting the patient and maintaining the solidarity of the profession. The second derives from the observation that the foundations of contemporary medical ethics were laid at a time of one-to-one doctor-...

Medical Gerontology in Clinical Practice

Clinical practice guidelines and the translation of knowledge: the science of continuing medical education.

of the Mexican Institute of Social Security (page 1295) advances our understanding of the continuing education of physicians and thus its contribution to health care and health care outcomes. Despite some limitations, explored below, it does so in several important ways. First, the article provides a more complex and dynamic definition of continuing medical education (CME) than the teacher-driv...

Clinical Teachers' Viewpoints towards Objective Structured Clinical Examination in Kerman University of Medical Science

Introduction: Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) is an appropriate method for evaluating students’ clinical competencies. This study was performed to determine the viewpoints of clinical teachers towards clinical evaluation through OSCE in Kerman University of Medical Sciences. Method: In this descriptive study, all clinical teachers in the fields of medicine, dentistry, nursing,...