Trends In Medical Practice

[Trends among medical students towards general practice or specialization].

BACKGROUND A 60/40 ratio has been estimated as a country's ideal proportion between general practitioners and specialists. In Chile this proportion was 36/ 64 in 2004, exactly the opposite of the ideal. Trends towards specialization or general practice among medical students have not been thoughtfully studied. AIM To assess trends among medical students towards becoming general practitioners ...

Changing trends in practice.

Occupational therapists are involved in delivering their services within a very complex health care environment and it is essential to understand the implications of the health care system in planning and implementing occupational therapy services. This month's column gives the occupational therapist a perspective on the health system and should be a guide for all clinicians and educators in lo...

Trends in Medical Image Compression

This paper presents an overview on the state-of-the-art in the field of medical image coding. After a summary of the more representative 2D and 3D compression algorithms, a versatile model-based coding scheme for threedimensional medical data is introduced. The potential of the proposed system is in the fact that it copes with many of the requirements characteristic of the medical imaging field...

Immunosuppression: practice and trends.

Over the past decade, immunosuppression therapy has undergone striking changes in the scale and pace by which new immunosuppressive molecules and antibodies have become incorporated into daily transplant medicine. An organ-by-organ review of data reveals several trends. The highest use of induction therapy (over 70% of patients) was reported for simultaneous pancreas kidney (SPK) and pancreas a...

Emergencies in Medical Practice