OBJECTIVE To assess the attitude of medical students and junior physicians toward neurology. METHODS A self-administered, previously validated, questionnaire was distributed among 422 students and junior physicians at King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia from September to December 2012. In this cross-sectional study, the questionnaire included demographic data and 12 statements to ...

The decision of the author not to present an historical development of the subject matter could have been compensated for by a more comprehensive list of sources relevant to the historical background. This might well have included other than American and English sources. Despite this, the text can be highly recommended. The title of the book reveals its purpose and nature. It is written for med...

The flow of blood through the cardiovascular system depends on basic principles of liquid flow in tubes elucidated by Bernoulli and Poiseuille. The elementary equations are described involving pressures related to velocity, acceleration/deceleration, gravity, and viscous resistance to flow (Bernoulli-Poiseuille equation). The roles of vascular diameter and number of branches are emphasized. In ...

This is an important and useful contribution. Important because the hospitals of New York City offer more than one-sixth of all interneships and residencies in the entire country, and useful to all those who are interested in this branch of medical education. Not only is here to be found an analysis of the various types of services offered by the different hospitals in New York City, but the im...

Laidlaw, M.B., Ch.B., F.R.C.P.F. and J. B. Stanton, M.A., M.B., F.R.C.P. (Pp. 133; illustrated, 40s). Edinburgh and London: E. & S. Livingstone, 1966. THIS book was written with the express purpose of advising physicians in the wards and outpatients departments of the type of patient in whom an EEG would be helpful from a diagnostic point of view. In this the authors have largely succeeded alth...

practical possibility, particularly as further grants to universities, a million pounds for medical education, may make the education of these boys a practical proposition. Why should selection be necessary if increased numbers are wanted ? Why not take them all ? On purely economic grounds it would be wasteful to spend State money on training unsuitable candidates. From the point of view of th...

and illegitimate babies and, in some countries, to serious overpopulation. Susser and Watson's book deals with many of these problems and contrasts the health experiences of peasant and industrial populations and in different social classes. The second edition has been enlarged by about one third due to the addition of material from the American experience of the authors and by the addition of ...

STATISTICS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS. By Frederick J. Moore, Frank B. Kramer, and Robert G. Knowles. Philadelphia, The Blakiston Company, 1951. viii + 113 pp. The widespread need for more and improved techniques among medical investigators scarcely needs mentioning. This small book offers the essentials of commonly used statistical methods with a minimum of verbiage. The emphasis is placed on unders...

Medical Historyfor Students, by JOHN R. GREEN, Springfield, Illinois, C. C. Thomas, 1968, pp. ix, 197, illus., $9.75. This book, based upon the author's lecture syllabus, has been written for the express purpose of introducing the student to an outline of medical history from the earliest times until the present day. Controversial discussion would therefore be out of place. The subject is treat...

evaluation of the factors affecting students’ academic failure in urmia university of medical sciences in 1390   rahimi b [1] , kazemi n [2] , mohammadpour y [3] , rahmatnejad l [4] , jabbari n [5] *      received: 1 jul , 2013 accepted: 3 sep , 2013      abstract   background & aims : academic failure of the students in higher education is one of the major problems. this study aims to examine ...