What do medical students know about chronic pain and its management?

What Do Clinical Professors of Hamadan University of Medical Sciences Know About Conflict of Interest in the Fields of Research, Education, and Treatment? A Qualitative Study

Background and Objective: Conflict of interest is a situation in which professional judgment about a primary interest is unjustifiably affected by a secondary one; therefore, it is a subject that occurs objectively. Also, conflict of interest is not inherently immoral; however, the way to deal with these conflicts is a matter of professional ethics. Materials and Methods: The present qualitati...

Assessing mental health literacy: What medical sciences students’ know about depression

  Background: Mental health literacy is an individual’s knowledge and belief about mental disorders which aid their recognition, management and prevention. The aim of this study was to investigate mental health literacy among students of Tehran University of Medical Sciences.   Methods : In this cross-sectional study, data were collected by the anonymous self-administered questionnaires and fin...

Anesthetic Considerations for Alcohol Using Patients

Alcohol use poses a variety of health complications. Because alcohol consumption in the days prior to surgery can induce lower blood pressure, the anesthesiologist will need to monitor blood pressure very closely during surgery to prevent hypotension. Before surgery, it is important for anesthesiologist to be aware about the amount and timing of recent alcohol consumption. Less anesthesia shoul...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Travel Diarrhea in Childhood “First Part; what do we know?”