Rodney Ehrlich trained in economics at UCT and Oxford before switching to Medicine which he completed at UCT in 1981. He subsequently worked for the National Centre for Occupational Health in Johannesburg where his interest in lung disease in miners was kindled. After training in occupational medicine and epidemiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, he qualified as a speciali...

Occupational medicine has taken over from Family practice the treatment of work injuries and occupational diseases in the Republic of Croatia since January 1, 2008. The reason was too many long-lasting sick leaves which general practitioners were unable to curb adequately. The research objective was to show the results of the one-year follow-up of the carried out reform, i.e. the efficiency of ...

BACKGROUND The purpose of this study was to examine the levels of occupational stress and physical symptoms among family medicine residents and investigate the effect of subscales of occupational stress on physical symptoms. METHODS A self-administered questionnaire survey of 1,152 family medicine residents was carried out via e-mail from April 2010 to July 2010. The response rate was 13.1% a...

Acute Internal Medicine (AIM) is a relatively new specialty. In the past most acute medical admissions were managed by Consultants trained in General (Internal) Medicine along with a another specialty such as Respiratory Medicine. As the pressures of the medical take increased and the need for earlier expert input was recognised, certain individuals began to make acute care the focus of their w...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The use of an electronic audience response system (ARS) that promotes active participation during lectures has been shown to improve retention rates of factual information in nonmedical settings. This study (1) tested the hypothesis that the use of an ARS during didactic lectures can improve learning outcomes by family medicine residents and (2) identified factors infl...

National Veterinary Research and Quarantine Service, Anyang 430-824, Korea Department of Veterinary Medicine, Kangwon National University, Chunchon 200-701, Korea College of Veterinary Medicine, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea College of Veterinary Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 361-763, Korea College of Veterinary Medicine, Konkuk Univdersity, Seoul 143-701, K...

We compared use of community medicine distributors (CMDs) and drug use under integrated community case management and home-based management strategies in children 6-59 months of age in eastern Uganda. A cross-sectional study with 1,095 children was nested in a cluster randomized trial with integrated community case management (CMDs treating malaria and pneumonia) as the intervention and home-ba...

Department of Neurology, Children’s Hospital Boston, Department of Epidemiology, Environmental and Occupational Medicine and Epidemiology, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Pulmonary and Critical Care Unit, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; and Department of Family Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical...