OBJECTIVE India has more than 20,000 registered pharmaceutical manufacturers. Consequently, there is a flood of brand names to choose from. We conducted this study to analyse and sort out the multitudinous brand names thronging the Indian market, and identified those that could create a possible confusion. MATERIALS AND METHODS Recent issues of drug formularies like Indian Drug Review, Drug I...

Current knowledge about doctor participation in torture was reviewed at the symposium Torture and the Medical Profession. This particular topic has received increasing attention during the last few years, and the meeting may be seen as one in a series, following particularly Doctors, Ethics, and Torture in Copenhagen, 1986 and Physicians, Ethics, and Torture in Montevideo 1987 (1,2). The backgr...

This paper indicates some e-books (electronic books) that are available on the Internet for free access and destined for the medical profession. Key-words: Electronic book. Links for Internet addresses. eletrônicos selecionados conforme os mesmos critérios adotados anteriormente. Os formatos dos livros eletrônicos variam desde HTML até DOC e TXT; porém, o mais comum de ser encontrados são os PD...

Objective: Medical profession is one of the most aspired career option among school students and parents. Though may look so lucrative charming, needs to be committed a lot become successful doctor. Passion interest towards will determining practitioner. But there many external influences in student’s life choose this career. This study was conducted with objective understand factors that influ...

This study aims to explore the relation between charisma and healing and how the concept of charisma evolved within medical profession over time. The development of medical profession from shamans to modern medical doctors, the gradual transition from ritual to physical healing, the relation between the physician and common people, and the transition from personal to professional charisma are p...

BACKGROUND The increasing proportion of women in the medical profession is a worldwide phenomenon often called the "feminization of medicine." However, it is understudied in low and middle-income countries, particularly in Latin America. METHODS Using a qualitative, descriptive design, we explored the influence of gender and other factors on physician career decision-making and experiences, i...

Medical physics is now a mature profession. A few years ago, my country’s scientific medical physics organization, the American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM), celebrated its 50th anniversary with all the pomp and hoopla befitting a golden anniversary. Medical physics as a recognized profession is even older than 50 years, having predated the formation of the AAPM by perhaps 20 to...

introduction. learning medicine could have many tension and anxieties like encounter to a strange educational and clinical environment. early clinical exposure is supposed to suppress these stresses and motivate students with a better attitude and awareness. methods. in an interventional study with a pretest –post test method 45 first and second year medical students were encountered to clinic...