TENNESSEE STATE MEDICAL ASSOCIATION

Thieves of the state and the South African Medical Association.

354 June 2013, Vol. 103, No. 6 SAMJ Thieves of the state and the South African Medical Association (SAMA) ‘SAMA upholds the principles of honesty, integrity and patientcentredness and does not condone any unethical practice by its members.’ This is reassuring to see in print, even though it should go without saying for a nation’s official medical association. The same SAMA mass e-mail’s striden...

Online nutrition and T2DM continuing medical education course launched on state-level medical association

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this research study was to determine whether a 1-hour online continuing medical education (CME) course focused on nutrition for type 2 diabetes would result in a gain in nutrition knowledge by practicing physicians. METHODS A practicing physician and dietitian collaborated to develop an online CME course (both webinar and self-study versions) on type 2 diabetes. This ...

East Tennessee State University James H Quillen College of Medicine.

The Middle Tennessee State University McNair Research Review

The purpose of this study is to examine caregivers’ attitudes toward augmentative and alternative communication (AAC) used by adults with mental retardation. Specifically, the study investigated the amount of training the caregivers received about their clients’ AAC intervention plans and the caregivers’ self-efficacy to facilitate communication from their clients. The survey was administered t...

The State of Medical Research in Iran

The State of Medical Research in Iran