Tobacco: A medical history

Improving alcohol and tobacco history taking by junior medical officers.

AIMS We aimed to determine the effectiveness of individual feedback and group feedback in improving recording, assessment, and management of risky alcohol use and of tobacco smoking by Junior Medical Officers (JMOs). METHOD Medical records of patients admitted by JMOs were examined for recording of alcohol use, alcohol withdrawal, intervention for alcohol, a consultation with the Drug and Alc...

Department of medical education; A personal history

This is a brief overview of the history of formal introduction of the art andscience of education into the sphere of medical education in Shiraz. Before this introduction medical education was, and in the majority of other institutions world-wide still is, a simple transfer of knowledge from teacher to student. The students accepted their passive role because this was how they had been taught a...

A celebration of medical history

LLOYD G. STEVENSON (editor), A celebration of medical history, Baltimore, Md., and London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1982, 8vo, pp. vi, 228, illus., £12.75. The fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Institute and Library for the History of Medicine at the Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, was appropriately marked by festivities, academic as well as gastronomic. Distinguished scho...

Medical History takes a Partner

1 Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Charlestown, Massachusetts, United States of America, 2 Department of Biological Sciences, Columbia University, Fairchild Center, New York, New York, United States of America, 3 Department of Chemistry, Columbia University, Fairchild Center, New York, New York, United States of America, 4 Harvard Medical School Department of Pathology, Boston, Mas...

A History of Medical Residency.