Ronald W. Busuttil, MD, PhD

, MD , PhD TONI BRANSFORD , MD , FACC

recipe for translational research in INDIA: MD-PhD or PhD-MD?

The current scientific scenario in India overemphasizes translational research without highlighting need to bring educational and training reforms that can enable such translational research. It is widely believed that there are two cycles of translation, namely T1 cycle which is characterised by bench to bedside approach and the T2 cycle which is characterised by bedside to bench approach. Bot...

, PhD Judith Belle Brown , MSW W . Wayne Weston , MD Patient - Centred Interviewing Part III : Five Provocative

The literature review of select studies on doctor-patient communication seeks to answer some of the frequently expressed questions and doubts about patient-centred interviewing. Studies from Canada, the United States, Britain and Holland, mostly in family practice, provide us with a rich source of data to ponder. The five questions we ask are: Do patient-centred consultations make a difference ...

Belle Brown , MSW W . Wayne Weston , MD Moira A . Stewart , PhD Patient - Centred Interviewing

Developing an effective management plan requires physicians and patients to reach agreement in three key areas: the nature of the problems, the goals and priorities of treatment, and the roles of the doctor and patient. Often doctors and patients have widely divergent views in each of these areas. The process of finding a satisfactory resolution is not so much one of bargaining or negotiating b...

Prof Ismet Ceric, MD, PhD (1935-2017)

Professor Ismet Ceric, MD, PhD, was one of the last representatives of the recognizable Sarajevo Neuropsychiatry School in the former Yugoslav territory, which was founded by Professor Nedo Zec (1899-1971) in 1946/47 with professors Dimitrije Dimitrijevic (1900-1989), Josip Horvat (1911-1964), Salih Ridjanovic, Slobodan Loga (1936-), Dusan Kecmanovic (1940-2014) and others. He was born 1935 in ...