Letter to a Young Female Physician.

Physician retention in deprived areas: a letter to the editor

The Proportion of Female Physician Links With Advanced Educational Opportunity for Female and by Female

Background The overall proportion of female physician is increasing worldwide. However, its ratio exhibits a substantial diversity among each member country of Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). This study aimed to reveal the social factors of countries associated with the percentage of female physicians....

Aortic Dissection of Unknown Origin in a Young Patient: A Case Report

Aortic dissection occurs when a tear develops in the wall of the aorta, which is rare in the young population. This fatal disorder is hard to diagnose, especially in young patients. We present the case of aortic dissection in a 15-year-old boy referred to the Emergency Department of Yazd University of Medical Sciences in November 2015. The patient presented to our department with sudden acute c...

How do physicians and their partners coordinate their careers and private lives?

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY Over the past few years, there has been increasing interest in the question of how couples coordinate their careers and private lives. The aim of this study was to investigate the career arrangements of physicians and their partners according to gender and parenthood status, and to compare dual-physician couples with other types of couples. METHODS Data pertaining to 414...

A program director’s perspective: advanced positions versus physician-only positions - What’s the best for my program?

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Strategies to curb young researchers from predatory publishers

This letter addresses the current scenario ofpredatory publishers in the medical fieldand strategies to curb young researchers frompredatory publishing. Today, the increasingtrend and magnitude of predatory publishershave proposed a big challenge to youngresearchers in the medical field (1). Predatorypublishers are publishers which publish paperswith questionable peer review, charge enormouspub...