INTRODUCTION Our current knowledge-based society and the many actualisations within the medical profession require a great responsibility of physicians to continuously develop and refine their skills. In this article, we reflect on some recent findings in the field of continuing education for professional doctors (continuing medical education, CME). Second, we describe the development of a CME ...

samples of participants’ writing were scored by two raters using toefl writing scoring rubric. the readability index of each text was calculated through the use of six readability formulae and graphs, i.e., flesch-kincaid index, reading ease index, fog index, smog formula, fry’s graph, and dale-chall readability index. the scores given to each essay were later compared to the obtained readabili...

nowadays, as a result of increased terrorist and bomb attacks throughout the globe in the vicinity of strategic buildings, designing these structures against impact loads, particularly the blast-related ones, has been taken into more consideration. the current procedure for designing the structure against an explosion is a design against the local failure of the current elements in the first st...

o bjectives: various methods have been introduced for evaluation of tooth movement in orthodontics. the challenge is to adopt the most accurate and most beneficial method for patients. this study was designed to introduce analysis of digital photographs with auto- cad software as a method to evaluate tooth movement and assess the reliability of this method. mat erials and methods : eighteen pat...

background: to determine the prevalence of incidental findings on brain ct scan in mild head trauma patients. methods: from november 2005 to april 2006, we evaluated 732 ct scans of cases with mild head trauma (glasgow coma scale score of thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen), whom referred to our university affiliated hospital. in this study, we evaluated incidental findings on brain ct of our pati...

AIM To investigate if pain area in patients with chronic pain could be measured by a computerized assessment on previously marked pain drawings on paper figures and to analyze the further application of the method. METHODS Seventy-two patients (54 women and 18 men) who were admitted to Umeå University Hospital during 2003 for assessment of chronic pain answered a set of questionnaires (pain i...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Assessment of state anxiety is frequently required in clinical and research settings, but its measurement using standard multi-item inventories entails practical challenges. Such inventories are increasingly complemented by paper-and-pencil, single-item visual analog scales measuring state anxiety (VAS-A), which allow rapid assessment of current anxiety states. Compute...