INTRODUCTION Many doctors are leaving Nepal to work abroad. To understand this problem better, we decided to study the attitude and plans of young doctors and medical students. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted at Kathmandu Medical College involving 65 first year medical students, 100 interns and 100 house officers. The data collected was entered in Microsoft exce...

BACKGROUND Medical education is changing. Increasingly, there are calls for major curriculum reform based on premises of what might improve undergraduate medical education. Against this background, innovative methods of teaching and learning have emerged. Problem-based and student-centered approaches are increasingly being adopted with less reliance on the conventional didactic lecture forums. ...

To study the self-direct learning methods in development of ability medical interns and analyze influencing factors. This included 150 were selected divided into a control group an experimental group. The traditional mode are group, practice rotation system There 75 students each And there is no significant difference general data teachers' professional titles, education teaching qualifications...

The safe transfer (handoff) of responsibility for patient care from one physician to another requires that health care facilities have rigorous sign-out systems and that physicians develop effective communication skills. In 2007 and 2008, to improve the spoken and written sign-out practices of the 25 interns at Allegheny General Hospital (Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania), the authors designed and admi...

Background Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) is a frequent, costly, and potentially disabling gastrointestinal disorder. Medical education is among the most challenging and the most stressful education, and this may predispose to high rates of IBS. Objective To determine the prevalence and predictors of IBS among medical students and interns in King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. Meth...

INTRODUCTION Identification of Educational Influentials (EIs) in clinical settings helps considerably to knowledge transfer among health and medical practice providers. The aim of this study was identifying EIs in diabetic foot ulcers (DFU) by medical students (clerks, interns and residents) and providing their relational pattern in this subject. METHODS Subjects were medical students at cler...

The new graduate medical education system established by the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare has been in place for 4 years, and various merits and demerits have surfaced. Many Japanese medical graduates are pleased that training in many fi elds and free choice of the place of training are now more possible in comparison with the previous situation. On the other hand, a pronounce...

OBJECTIVE: Theories from the psychology of communication may be applicable in understandingwhy hand-off communication is inherently problematic. Thepurposeof this studywas toassesswhetherpostcall pediatric interns can correctly estimate the patient care information and rationale received by on-call interns during hand-off communication. METHODS: Pediatric interns at the University of Chicago we...