Now more than ever, medical educators at all levels are tasked with delivering foundational concepts and content necessary for the next generation of physicians and physician scientists to incorporate evidence-based medicine into their clinical practice and research. Physicians need the skills to evaluate the quality and relevance of content that they are incorporating to their expanding medica...

Medical reasoning describes a form of qualitative inquiry that examines the cognitive (thought) processes involved in making medical decisions. Clinical reasoning, medical problem solving, diagnostic reasoning, and decision-making are all terms used in a growing body of literature that examines how clinicians make clinical decisions. Medical cognition refers to studies of cognitive processes, s...

background : studies have shown a gradual decline in empathy of medical trainees with increasing years of education. methods to augment empathy show some promise, but the most effective methods are both expensive and time consuming.to assess effectiveness of communication skills training program as a distant learning method in improving empathy.   method s: fourteen first year residents of psyc...

background: behavioral risk factors are responsible for a substantial portion of chronic disease. educating patients is a professional responsibility of medical practitioners. however, it has been observed that physicians did not practice what they preach. we aimed to study whether medical colleges inculcate health‑promoting lifestyle among medical students during their stay in medical colleges...

This paper introduces an assurance framework for networked medical device development. This work is being conducted to address the everincreasing concerns of medical device security with a specific focus on medical devices to be incorporated into IT networks. The framework utilises a Process Assessment Model and a Process Reference Model to address system development lifecycle processes, securi...

today, information technology services are considered as valuable resources in all areas. for making information technology management processes purposeful and efficient in different organizations – as a competitive and strategic advantage (especially in organizations responsible for health care services) – it is necessary to recognize the level of maturity of the organization and review its pr...

Exchanging a medical image via network from one place to another place or storing a medical image in a particular place in a secure manner has become a challenge. To overwhelm this, secure medical image Lossless Compression (LC) schemes have been proposed. The original input grayscale medical images are encrypted by Tailored Visual Cryptography Encryption Process (TVCE) which is a proposed encr...

demographic changes in germany show the fastest progress of all european countries and are not only influencing socioeconomic issues but also the management of patients with their individual risc profile. especially severely injured elderly constitute a group of patients who need specific attention due to their individual age related pathophysiological processes. 21% of the german population we...