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Occasional reviews Teaching medical students about tobacco
There are around 1.1 thousand million smokers in the world which is approximately one third of the global population who are aged 15 years and over (47% of men and 12% of women). Most smokers live in developing countries (800 million) and most are male (700 million). While smoking rates have decreased in developed countries over the last 13 years, there has been a corresponding 50% increase in ...
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We investigated whether a unique didactic focusing on delivering health care to patients with disabilities (PWDs) impacts medical students' knowledge of specific disabilities and related concerns, attitudes about barriers to this populations' health care, and behavior during typical primary care visits with PWDs. A 90-minute session for students during their third-year family medicine clerkship...
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Standardized patients (SPs), now a mainstay of the undergraduate medical education experience, are beginning to play larger roles in helping students build competencies to better serve patients who have disabilities, in educating students about the lived experiences of persons with disabilities, and in testing students' understanding of disability-related issues. In this article, the authors di...
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Underdeveloped nations have the largest absolute number of the world's elderly population. Approximately 10.7% of the Brazilian population comprises aged individuals. Aging populations are associated with a higher incidence of chronic degenerative diseases such as dementia. Demented individuals place a high burden of care on healthcare systems and family members. General practitioners should be...
متن کاملTeaching family medicine medical students about sleep disorders.
OBJECTIVES A 3.5-hour workshop was developed to teach family medicine medical students about sleep disorders. DESCRIPTION This family medicine clerkship requirement engages students in role-plays and provides them with didactic information about common sleep problems. EVALUATION Fifty-one students completed questionnaires assessing their knowledge prior to the workshop, 2 weeks and 6 months...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Thorax
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0040-6376
DOI: 10.1136/thx.54.1.70