The article highlights the problem of ensuring full development children with disabilities in day care centers. Despite fact that today can be included education system regular educational institutions, integration such into unified space Ukraine is currently under considerable doubt. This due to need for great changes: a model working children; improvement activities support services instituti...

BACKGROUND Human rights violations are commonly reported against people with mental illness and have remained a major research issue in recent times. OBJECTIVE The present study was aimed to compare psychiatric patients' perceptions of human rights needs between rural and urban settings. METHODOLOGY A descriptive study design was carried out among 100 recovered psychiatric patients based on...

This essay is an opinion article addressed to the busy practitioner. It provides information on nutrition, diet, nutritional science, and obesity to serve as a reference in teaching his patients on these issues. It is composed by a gastroenterologist who has been engaged in clinical gastroenterology and nutrition, research, and teaching in an academic medical center for 35 years. It also relate...

OBJECTIVE To identify the content of a psoriasis curriculum for medical students. DESIGN Literature review and modified Delphi technique. SETTING Primary and secondary care in Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire. SUBJECTS 19 dermatologists (7 teaching hospital consultants; 6 consultants in district general hospitals; 6 registrars); 2 general practitioner senior house officers working in derma...

Exposure to the field of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (PM&R) is limited in the curricula of many medical schools. As a result, many students lack awareness of the field and may therefore ultimately choose different careers. A medical student PM&R career fair was held on October 13th, 2015 at the University of Pittsburgh, and several local medical schools were invited to participate. Sev...

OBJECTIVES The aim was to evaluate a common-sense, behavioural change intervention to implement clinical guidelines for asthma management in the community pharmacy setting. DESIGN The components of the common-sense intervention were described in terms of categories and dimensions using the Intervention Taxonomy (ITAX) and Behaviour Change Techniques (BCTs) using the Behaviour Change Wheel (BC...

Disease management is becoming increasingly important in workplace health promotion given the aging workforce, rising chronic disease prevalence, and needs to maintain a productive and competitive American workforce. Despite the widespread availability of the Chronic Disease Self-Management Program (CDSMP), and its known health-related benefits, program adoption remains low in workplace setting...

BACKGROUND Problem-based Learning (PBL) has been suggested as a key educational method of knowledge acquisition to improve medical education. We sought to evaluate the differences in medical school education between graduates from PBL-based and conventional curricula and to what extent these curricula fit job requirements. METHODS Graduates from all German medical schools who graduated betwee...