This investigation was carried out in order to: identify the occurrence of professional accidents with perforate cutting potentially contaminated material among nurses and nursing auxiliaries that work in a general teaching hospital in the interior of the state of São Paulo. The other objectives were: to associate the occurrence of accident with the professional category and period of work; to ...

Glycaemic control was assessed in type 2 black diabetics attending the diabetic clinic at a peri-urban hospital. Baseline glycosylated haemoglobin levels were measured and a subsequent estimation was carried out in those patients who attended a follow-up consultation to see whether current recommended targets for glycosylated haemoglobin levels were being attained. Out of 708 patients, mean age...

introduction: adherence to diet and fluids is the cornerstone of patients undergoing hemodialysis. by informing hemodialysis patients we can help them have a proper diet and reduce mortality and complications of toxins. face to face education is one of the most common methods of training in health care system. but advantages of video- based education are being simple and cost-effective, althoug...

The translation of professional medical knowledge into language the public can comprehend and employ for home treatment and health maintenance has long been an important activity in Western medical culture. Since the Enlightenment particularly, instruction in matters medical has seemed a crucial element in equipping men and women to control their destiny. Historical examination of the process o...

There is relatively little adoption of evidence-based treatments (EBTs) into routine practice. Dissemination of EBTs or practice guidelines through traditional educational activities (e.g., formal continuing education programs) has limited impact on day-to-day clinical practice. Implementation science is an emerging field that has developed as the gap between research and practice has been iden...

INTRODUCTION We developed "Case-Based Integrated Teaching (C-BIT)" in our medical school to integrate the content of various disciplines through a core patient design that introduces major diseases to students. This article presents the concepts, development and initial evaluation of the teachers' and students' responses to C-BIT. MATERIALS AND METHODS Teachers' manuals for 18 major diseases ...

to exhibit clear and distinct views of the various objects which the British reader will feel an interest in contemplating. We shall first describe the French system of medical education, the schools and methods of instruction as they regard the different classes of medical practitioners, with every thing which relates to the oeconomy and regulations of the metropolitan hospitals ; and, secondl...

The letters which are transcribed in part in this paper were written by Edmund Randolph Peaslee to Amasa Farrington Kinne in 1838-39-40. Through the kindness of Mrs. Charles J. Bartlett, of New Haven, they have been added recently to the collection of Yale Medical Memorabilia of the Yale Medical Library. The letters are important, not only as the correspondence of a medical student written duri...

One of the features associated with schooling and formal education is their decontextualized nature, a characteristic that has been related to the advancement of logical abstract thinking. The aim of this study was to compare and contrast self-portraits through the graphical representations and verbal explanations made by young indigenous people from the Altos de Chiapas with different educatio...

Anatomy is an old punching bag for cliniciansthey wrote letters to the Lancet about it fifty years ago, just as they do today, complaining that students know no anatomy and that the subject must therefore be badly taught. Anatomists are a stolid race, but this continued assault has induced in some of them a mild anxiety state, a certain diffidence about their subject. Like all departments throu...