Faculty development: yesterday, today and tomorrow.

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Faculty development: Yesterday, today and tomorrow

Faculty development, or staff development as it is often called, has become an increasingly important component of medical education, and most medical schools now offer formal faculty development programmes and activities. As McLean and colleagues have stated in their recent AMEE Guide “with demands on medical faculties to be socially responsible and accountable, there is increasing pressure fo...

Virulence of Helicobacter Pylori: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow

Abstract Undoubtedly, H. pylori is the major human gastric pathogen, which infects the mucosal epithelium in 50% of world population. However, H. pylori infection is relatively prevalent globally the majority of infected individuals are asymptomatic. The recent epidemiological studies show that the various gastro intestinal complications can be the result of genetic variation in H. pylori stra...

Alzheimer's Disease: Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow

Alzheimer's disease is the most common and well - known cause of dementia, as a progressive, irreversible brain disorder that affects cognitive function, personality, thought, perception and behaviour. Alzheimer's disease is the fourth leading cause of death in western countries. Interesting to know that this disease was unknown in medical community till 100 years ago and had no name. Dr. Alois...

Let us get on with it.

It was important to have a New Year’s sermon—something about resolutions, I thought, and to my chagrin, I discovered that the words resolution and resolve do not appear in the Bible, neither in the Old nor New Testament. Why is that? Aren’t resolutions like the New Year’s ones good? Isn’t it good to have goals? Yesterday, today and tomorrow There are two days in every week we should not worry a...

Comparing Time-Use Estimates of Two Different Time Diary Methods

Objectives: Time-use has become an important field of research in social and medical sciences. Time diary is the most popular method for measuring time-use that has 2 different methods of administration including yesterday and tomorrow diary. The present study aimed to compare these methods of measuring time-use.  Methods: This cross-sectional comparative study was conducted on 256 under 5-yea...