Endocrine refresher course 2001: modern medical curricula.

CT Simulation Refresher Course

Sex-based differences in physiology: what should we teach in the medical curriculum?

An abundance of recent research indicates that there are multiple differences between males and females both in normal physiology and in the pathophysiology of disease. The Refresher Course on Gender Differences in Physiology, sponsored by the American Physiological Society Education Committee at the 2006 Experimental Biology Meeting in San Franciso, CA, was designed to provide teachers of medi...

Nautical officers at sea: emergency experience and need for medical training

BACKGROUND On merchant ships, the medical treatment including emergency interventions on the high seas are carried out by nautical officers who have to pass a forty hours medical refresher course every five years in order to meet international requirements. This study aims to show the most frequent kinds of medical emergencies on the high seas and to assess the seafarers' knowledge about their ...

A case of pseudoaldosteronism induced by a mouth refresher containing licorice.

Refresher Course Challenges in teaching the mechanics of breathing to medical and graduate students

West JB. Challenges in teaching the mechanics of breathing to medical and graduate students. Adv Physiol Educ 32: 177–184, 2008; doi:10.1152/advan.90146.2008.—The mechanics of breathing has always been a difficult topic for some medical and graduate students. The subject is very quantitative and contains a number of concepts that some students have trouble with, including physical principles su...