MEDICAL PRACTICE IN TURKEY.

Defending academic and medical independence in Turkey.

www.thelancet.com Published Online July 27, 2017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0140-6736(17)32093-7 1 3 12 peace declaration signatory academics discharged from Dokus Elül University. Bianet (Istanbul). June 29, 2017/. http://bianet.org/ english/human-rights/187848-12-peacedeclaration-signatory-academics-dischargedfrom-dokuz-eylul-university (accessed July 23, 2017). 4 Vatansever K, Tanık FA, Göka...

Application of medical genetics in Turkey.

Turkey is among the most populous countries of the world, and has a young population structure. The rate of consanguinity has been approximately 20-25% for the last 25 years. Various studies have shown that high consanguinity can be a contributing factor to the high incidence of some rare autosomal recessive diseases. Hemoglobinopathies are an important health problem, and Turkey also has one o...

Continuing medical education in Turkey: Recent developments

BACKGROUND The Turkish Association of Medicine founded a Continuing Medical Education Accreditation Committee in 1993 to evaluate and accredit scientific meetings and publications. The aims of this project were to raise the standards of meetings and to introduce compulsory revalidation and re-certification for physicians in Turkey. DISCUSSION Since the year 1994, 2348 applications to the Cont...

Emergencies in Medical Practice

Medical Practice in Palestine

The first point that impresses the medical man in Palestine is the question of languages. At the last census 110 less than fifteen different mother tongues had to be put down for a group of less than 100 patients and staff, and one never could manage to get through a morning in out-patients without using at least six different languages. In medical work one comes into close touch with doctors f...