To our mentor and friend, professor Solé-Balcells.

How can we forget our mentor Prof. Baki!

January 23, 2015 was the 7th death anniversary of Prof. Dr. Baki Komşuoğlu, MD, PhD who was the Legendary Rector of Kocaeli University, Founder of Kocaeli Faculty of Medicine and Affliated Hospitals, and Mastermind of Umuttepe Campus. Prof. Sezer announced the sad news on the morning of January 23, 2008 “I lost my other half, Professor Baki Komşuoğlu is no more.” I commemorate my mentor Prof. K...

[Risk perception in the ongoing prescription of benzodiazepines in mental health and primary care].

Alcohol related brain damage. State of the art and a call for action.

mistreated (Isenberg-Grezda, Kutberg & Nicolson, 2012, Isenberg-Grezda; Chabon & Nicolson, 2014). There is a need for translational research in this field to connect “bench to bedside” in order to find the best ways to help patients with ARBD. Public health managers should take responsibility of such a relevant issue, as many of these patients are at the boundaries of different medical speciali...

Yrjö Tapio Konttinen 1952–2014

Open Access-This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the source is credited. died unexpectedly on the 10th of December 2014 at the age of 62. Professor Konttinen will be remembered as an exceptionally productive and highly cited scientist in th...

Explain the experiences of medical students from running a peer program as a mentor: A qualitative study

Introduction: Today, peer education programs focus on scientific support, guiding and creating interaction between students has been considered to model students' scientific progress. The purpose of this study is to explore the experiences of medical students from implementing the peer program as a mentor using a qualitative framework. Methods: The present study is a qualitative study of the t...