Re-moulding publication criteria for the advancement of medical faculty: a wake-up call for medical fraternity

The Flexner report at the century mark: a wake-up call for reforming medical education.

Development of Strategies for Advancement of Medical Ethics Education in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences

Introduction: Medical ethics is an analytical attempt that deals with various aspects of ethical decision making in medicine. According to the importance and goals of medical ethics, this study is an endeavor to evaluate strengths and weaknesses (internal factors) as well as opportunities and threats to medical ethics education (external factors) using SWOT (Strengths,Weakness, Opportunities, a...

the effect of esp materials on medical studentsreading proficiency

چکیده این تحقیق " مواد درسی " را به عنوان یکی از بحث برانگیزترین موضوعات آموزش زبان تلقی کرده و درتلاش است به سه سوال عمده پاسخ دهد: 1) آیا بکارگیری جزوات گرداوری شده توسط گروهی از مدرسین تاثیر بسزایی در میزان توانش خواندن و درک متون انگلیسی دانشجویان پزشکی دارد؟ 2) آیا استفاده از مواد درسی اصلی( بین المللی )، توانش خواندن و درک متون انگلیسی دانشجویان پزشکی را به طور چشمگیری تحت تاثیر قرار م...

Persisting trend in the breach of medical neutrality: a wake-up call to the international community

Correspondence to Dr Soumitra S Bhuyan; [email protected] History is dotted with stories of war crimes in which civilians, patients and health personnel have been killed and health facilities destroyed by warring factions. In 1949, the International Humanitarian Law (IHL) as contained in the four 1949 Geneva Conventions was officially ratified by 196 countries. The law promoted medical neutra...

A wake-up call for nutrition labelling.

In 2011, the European Union issued a new regulation on the provision of information on food for consumers (1). The regulation includes new directives for the provision of nutrition information on processed foods. In response, a number of food manufacturers and retailers recently committed themselves to harmonize the nutrition information on their products (2). In the USA in 2011, the Institute ...