BACKGROUND The Surgery Clerkship Clinical Skills Examination (CSE) is a novel written examination developed to assess the surgical knowledge, clinical decision making, communication skills, and professionalism of medical students on the surgery clerkship. This study was undertaken to determine its validity. METHODS Data were prospectively collected from July 2011 through February 2013. Multiv...

AIMS To determine which component of the final examination in paediatrics at Kuwait University best predicted the final outcome. METHODS The performance of 356 medical students in the short cases, the long case, multiple choice questions (MCQs), and the essay components of the final examination in paediatrics at Kuwait University was correlated with the final grade, and the mean difference be...

Early determination of the severity pancreatitis can help in guiding mode treatment and predicting disease outcomes. The acute be determined by history, physical examination, laboratory markers, radiological examinations. Among these parameters CRP, Ranson, Glasgow are simple cost-effective test, which is useful clinical practice. APACHE II score, Balthazar BISAP score cytokines best to determine

To evaluate the diagnostic importance of event-related potential P300, the correlation between P300 and regional cerebral blood flow (rCBF) was investigated in various brain regions in patients with multiple cerebral infarction (16 cases), chronic alcoholism (11 cases) and Alzheimer's disease (5 cases) and in seven healthy people. Cognitive function was also evaluated by mini-mental state exami...

The aim of this study was to validate the Japanese version of the Addenbrooke's Cognitive Examination-Revised (ACE-R) [Mori: Japanese Edition of Hodges JR's Cognitive Assessment for Clinicians, 2010] designed to detect dementia, and to compare its diagnostic accuracy with that of the Mini-Mental State Examination. The ACE-R was administered to 85 healthy individuals and 126 patients with dement...

CONTEXT Clinical protocols are associated with improved patient outcomes; however, they may negatively affect medical education by removing trainees from clinical decision making. OBJECTIVE To study the relationship between critical care training with mechanical ventilation protocols and subsequent knowledge about ventilator management. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS A retrospective coho...

Cases Case # 1: Girl, 11, afflicts right lower quadrant pain for 3 months. Background Prematurity, atopy (dermatitis, rhinitis, colic). Sister and atopic mother. Physical examination: exquisite tenderness in the right iliac fossa, bilateral Cord colic pain. Dry skin. Laboratori data:all hematology is normal. Examination of normal urine, serial parasitological (-). EDN (eosinophil derived neurot...

INTRODUCTION There are no existing data on whether performance on the United States Medical Licensing Examination (USMLE) predicts success in American Board of Emergency Medicine (ABEM) certification. The aim of this study was to determine the presence of any association between USMLE scores and first-time success on the ABEM qualifying and oral certification examinations. METHODS We retrospe...

Multicenter clinical research would benefit from a simple, reliable scoring system for comparison of the clinical status of patients at different centers. In this study, five physicians performed simultaneous, independent scoring of 41 individuals with cystic fibrosis using the Doershuk modification of the Shwachman-Kulczycki scoring system for history, physical examination, and nutrition, and ...