introduction: general medical education starts with basic sciences which usually continue about 2.5 to 3 years. in this period, the students study basic medical sciences and then start the clinical stage in which they deal with diagnoses, care, and cure of disease. the purpose of this study was to assess the integration of basic sciences period with the clinical period at shiraz university of m...

introduction: direct and rapid access to information is one of the main necessities of the users in new technological world. nowadays, information users, particularly medical information in which rapid access is of necessity, do not have enough time to search and access to information. therefore, the present study aimed to determine strategies to access required information as soon as possible....

Rare additional slips of triceps brachii muscle was found bilaterally in a sixty two year old South Indian male cadaver during routine dissection of upper limb for undergraduate students at Melaka-Manipal Medical College, Manipal University, Manipal, India. On left side, the variant additional muscle slip took origin from the lower part of the medial intermuscular septum about 4 cm proximal to ...

UNLABELLED The collection of microbiological samples represents an important aspect of care both for doctors as well as nurses. It is important to recognise and identify some key points, to avoid performing 'unnecessary' or 'incorrect' sampling, which may give useless or even misleading results, these are: the moment at which the sample is collected, the collection method and timing (if indicat...

The League of Arab States (also known as the Arab League) is well past its sixth decade of establishment. However, it has a long way to go to achieve the objectives enumerated in its charter. In a sense, there is much stronger propensity towards disintegration than integration in the League. This article seeks to study the reasons that account for the failure of such integration in the Arab Lea...