Introduction. Evaluation of medical students and preparing them for suitable diagnosis and treatment of diseases are the target of medical education with regard to importance of adjustment of educational contents with community needs and high prevalence of infectious disease. Therefore we decided to measure information of medical student (Intern) in 5th Azar hospital about diagnosis, treatment ...

Background: At the present time, teaching pharmacology for medical students mainly focuses on the basic principles of pharmacology. This study was conducted to assess the current situation of pharmacology teaching and the necessity of developing clinical pharmacology from the viewpoint of medical interns and externs in Tabriz University of Medical Sciences. Methods: This descriptive cross-secti...

OBJECTIVE To determine the cost of formal and informal teaching specifically provided for interns and to determine how much of an intern's time is spent in these activities. DESIGN, SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS Costs of formal teaching for 2012 were obtained from the New South Wales Health Education and Training Institute (HETI) and costs of informal teaching by a survey of all interns in a rando...

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...

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Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is a global epidemic with over 2 billion people, equal to one-third of the world’s population, are currently estimated to be infected. In Sri Lanka, despite an effective national programme for TB control and mass scale immunoprophylaxis, TB still remains a growing public health issue with over 9000 new cases being detected annually. Studies conducted in many high p...

Relational learning analyzes the probabilistic constraints between the attributes of entities and relationships. We extend the expressiveness of relational models by introducing for each entity (or object) an infinite-state latent variable as part of a Dirichlet process (DP) mixture model. It can be viewed as a relational generalization of hidden Markov random field. The information propagates ...