OUR MANDATE IN NORTH TOGOLAND

Our fallen peers: a mandate for change.

OBJECTIVE The author identifies and seeks to remove barriers contributing to physician/medical students' decisions NOT to seek mental health care. METHODS Following a cluster of medical student and physician suicides in one medical community, medical trainees anonymously shared their views regarding seeking mental health treatment in light of the current disclosure requirements for medical li...

Is the map in our head oriented north?

We examined how a highly familiar environmental space--one's city of residence--is represented in memory. Twenty-six participants faced a photo-realistic virtual model of their hometown and completed a task in which they pointed to familiar target locations from various orientations. Each participant's performance was most accurate when he or she was facing north, and errors increased as partic...

Giant Inguinal Hernia: Our Experience in Maiduguri, North Eastern Nigeria

Background: Globally, inguinal hernia is the most common type of abdominal wall hernias. Access to surgical repair is limited resulting in many patients developing giant hernias associated with higher morbidity and mortality. Patients and Methods: The study reviewed all cases of giant inguinal hernia managed between January 2007 and December 2012 in U.M.T.H. Results: A total of 21 patients were...

Health disparities among North Carolina's Latinos: our point of view.

The Patchwork Mandate

One Australian university (Queensland University of Technology) that mandates deposit of its publications is leading the world in collecting 70% of its annual research output and the fraction is rising. This level of success is surprising, since the researcher's world is hemmed in with requirements to teach, to ask for student evaluations, to write and mark examinations, to supervise Ph.D. stud...