“Values” in medical practice

BEME systematic review: predictive values of measurements obtained in medical schools and future performance in medical practice.

BACKGROUND Effectiveness of medical education programs is most meaningfully measured as performance of its graduates. OBJECTIVES To assess the value of measurements obtained in medical schools in predicting future performance in medical practice. METHODS SEARCH STRATEGY The English literature from 1955 to 2004 was searched using MEDLINE, Embase, Cochrane's EPOC (Effective Practice and Or...

Medical education: eternal values.

Third University Department of Cardiology Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Greece e-mail: [email protected]

Emergencies in Medical Practice

Medical Practice in Palestine

The first point that impresses the medical man in Palestine is the question of languages. At the last census 110 less than fifteen different mother tongues had to be put down for a group of less than 100 patients and staff, and one never could manage to get through a morning in out-patients without using at least six different languages. In medical work one comes into close touch with doctors f...

Psychiatry in Medical Practice

the concepts and information it presents. Its great weakness lies in the lack of critical appraisal of the methodology of some of the data quoted. Wide-eyed speculation based on single cases are quoted with as much authority as the data of well-controlled experimental studies. Considering the fact that at least 65 per cent of patients coming to the average physician have disease syndromes initi...