background and purpose: proper communication between a physician and a patient is the key to diagnosis and management of diseases. communication skills are essential for gathering information from patients, enhancing patients trust on physicians, relaxing them and managing them . the main purpose of this study was to determine the states of communication skills of medical interns to communicate...

BACKGROUND Clinical skills tests have been added to the national medical licensure examinations in Canada, the U.S., Korea and Switzerland. Adding a clinical skills test to the Japanese national medical licensure examination should also be considered under the Medical Practitioners Act. On the other hand, such tests might be costly and represent an economic burden to the nation's citizens. Thus...

Objective The first course of the medical curriculum at the Hofstra North Shore-LIJ School of Medicine, From the Person to the Professional: Challenges, Privileges and Responsibilities, provides an innovative early clinical immersion. The course content specific to the Emergency Medical Technician (EMT) curriculum was developed using the New York State Emergency Medical Technician curriculum. S...

T he mortality from melanoma, currently the sixth most common malignant neoplasm in men and women, increases after age 50 years and can be expected to increase as the US population ages. Sixteen percent of melanomas are discovered by physicians, and 76% of those are detected by primary care physicians. Given that 41.8% of US annual physician visits are to a family practitioner or internist, the...

' taxonomy is a time honoured component of medical education. It comprises of 6 levels, but the fundamental 3 elements of the triangle of education are Knowledge, skills and attitude. Much is written about the Knowledge and skills but very little about the third dimension of medical education called attitude i.e. ethics. Medical knowledge and skills were transferred through long associations be...

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background: in-service educational courses have made the organization employees more capable of solving problems, making decisions and analyzing the job. educational programs should be based on educational needs. so aim of present research was to determinate educational need assessments of employees affiliated to dezful university of medical sciences regarding in-service educational courses in ...

evaluation of communication skills of nurses from hospitalized patients' perspective     rostami h [1] * , golchin m [2] , mirzaei a [3]     received: 14 sep, 2011 accepted: 21 nov, 2011     abstract   background & aims : the ability to communicate effectively is one of the main problems of modern societies. quality of services is powerfully related to effective communication skills. studi...

Introduction: Learning procedural skills is one of the essentialaspects of undergraduate medical education. However, learningprocedural skills in clinical settings is less widely considered.This study aimed to explore the Iranian undergraduate medicalstudents’ perception of learning procedural skills and its outcomesin three universities of medical sciences in Iran...