Health care ethics committees (ECs) have proliferated over the last 50 years as a consequence of the progressive development of academic bioethics. However, their form of operation is neither homogeneous nor fully satisfactory, and they present a great degree of variability throughout the world, rather like the children of a large family, each with different levels of growth and maturity. The a...

Despite the growing popularity of participatory peer education as an HIV-prevention strategy worldwide, our understandings of the processes underlying its impact on sexual norms are still in their infancy. Starting from the assumption that gender inequalities play a key role in driving the epidemic amongst young people, we outline a framework for conceptualizing the processes underlying success...

BACKGROUND Research exists examining the challenges of delivering lifestyle behaviour change initiatives in practice. However, at present much of this research has been conducted with primary care health professionals, or in acute adult hospital settings. The purpose of this study was to identify barriers and facilitators associated with implementing routine lifestyle behaviour change brief adv...

Results Aboriginal community members valued interactivity, visual features of materials, and personal interaction. Newly developed materials should focus on practical and lifestyle issues of asthma management. Participants also preferred a combination of traditional printed and digital resources. Cultural relevance could be improved by including images related to Aboriginal culture, featuring p...

INTRODUCTION The focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) is a commonly used and life-saving tool in the initial assessment of trauma patients. The recommended emergency medicine (EM) curriculum includes ultrasound and studies show the additional utility of ultrasound training for medical students. EM clerkships vary and often do not contain formal ultrasound instruction. Time const...

BACKGROUND While others have studied the effects of resident teaching on medical student performance, few have examined the benefits to the resident educator. Our study compared the quantity of pathology residents' didactic teaching with their performance on in-service examinations. METHODS The academic records of anatomic/clinical pathology residents over 10 years were reviewed. Scores on st...

This study targets development of an effective training scheme model that can be implemented at elementary school level with focus on recovery and recycling of wasted papers in Turkey. For this purpose, three schools were chosen from a district within Istanbul. They were separated from one another as full intervention (FI), semi-intervention (SI) and control (C) schools. Different levels of edu...

Avicenna, a Muslim scientist of the tenth and eleventh centuries has an important place in the history of medicine in Iran and the world. Furthermore, the modern medicine is laid upon the infrastructure of his medicine. In this article, the position of Avicenna in the medical history and the scientific influence of his medical works in particular Al-Canon in the development of medical literatur...

The ACC’s goals with respect to international efforts are as follows: increase international participation in educational activities; increase international knowledge exchange; increase international participation in practice standards and quality initiatives; and increase communication on international activities. At first glance, it might seem odd for an American medical society to have an in...

There is a significant need for high-quality medical physics education and training in all countries to support effective and safe use of modern medical technology for both diagnostic and treatment purposes. This is, and will continue to be, achieved using appropriate technology to increase both the effectiveness and efficiency of educational activities everywhere in the world. While the applic...