OBJECTIVES The interest is focused on today's interns who will soon become an essential part of the health care system. Obstacles they perceive at the beginning of the career may encourage them or, inversely, impede their professional development, enhance professional burnout or even lead to change of the profession. International literature, comprising publications on the situation in ten Euro...

OBJECTIVES The study was done to determine the perception of clinical years' medical students and interns about assessment methods used in Faculty of Medicine, King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted during the educational year 2012/2013. A multistage stratified random sample method was used to select 600 senior medical students (4(th)-6(...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate the knowledge of basic life support (BLS) among students and health providers in Medicine, Pharmacy, Dentistry, and Allied Health Science Colleges at Qassim University. METHODOLOGY A cross sectional study was performed using an online BLS survey that was completed by 139 individuals. RESULTS Ninety-three responders were medical students, 7 were medical interns, 6 were ...

Background: Empathy is an important element of physician-patient communication. Empathy is linked to a number of attributes such as patient treatment compliance and satisfaction, better history taking and physical examination and therefore achieving better clinical outcomes. Previous research indicates that self-reported empathy among medical students declines during the course of their medical...

background: inadequate use of these techniques probably increases the risks of radiography. this study has been accomplished in 2016 to determine medical students and residents of birjand university of medical science awareness levels of principles of protection in radiologic imaging. methods: in this descriptive research, all medical students, including externs, interns, radiology residents an...

introduction: the importance of medical profession and the role of the physician in society is no secret to anyone. skills and competencies in clinical practice are necessary for the medical profession. in fact, in patient care, doctors require practical skills in addition to scientific knowledge. this study examines the potentials of medical school students in three areas of doing the right th...

BACKGROUND In recent years, rising numbers of medical students and an increasingly demanding clinical workload has put pressures on the educational systems for medical students in the hospital. Bedside teaching remains central to education, but tutorial delivery by registrars, tutors and consultants has proven to be increasingly difficult with the greater numbers of students now in the undergra...