OBJECTIVES To discover how much research doctors in our area do; to describe their attitudes to research; and to evaluate the hindrances to developing research that they found. DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive study. SETTING Area 7 of Primary Care, Madrid. PARTICIPANTS Area 7 doctors. MAIN MEASUREMENTS An anonymous self-administered questionnaire was designed in order to gather the f...

(CASNR) dates back to 1869 when the university was designated as Tennessee’s federal land-grant institution. Under terms of the Federal Land-Grant Act, the university was enabled for the first time to offer instruction in agriculture. Later, federal legislation provided resources for agricultural research and extension programming for dissemination of research findings to the people of Tennesse...

since the 1970s, services marketing has grown into a major sub discipline of marketing. it is constantly claimed – but is refuted in the article – that services are now the dominant economic activity in developed countries and keeps growing while the two traditional goods sectors, manufacturing and agriculture, are declining. in today's competitive world, having expertise, knowledge and ma...

Background Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) have emerged to bridge the gap between the learning of individual competencies and competence in real world practice. EPAs capture the critical core work of a discipline integrating competencies from multiple domains. This report describes the development of a set of EPAs for specialty training in Public Health and Preventive Medicine (PHPM)...

The Royal Army Medical College was founded in 1860. The staff included a Professor of Military Medicine, a Professor of Military Surgery, a Professor of Military Hygiene and a Professor of Pathology. The main role of the Professor of Surgery is to participate in the teaching of young medical officers in those aspects of surgery particularly relevant to the military community and also to partici...

OBJECTIVE We report the preliminary assessment of InsuOnline©, a serious game designed for medical education on insulin therapy. MATERIALS AND METHODS We conducted a pilot study with 41 undergraduate medical students and Internal Medicine residents to assess the educational effectiveness of InsuOnline©, as compared to a traditional educational activity (lecture, cases discussion). Knowledge, ...

objectives this study tried to codify the recommendations of iranian traditional medicine (itm) by studying the main medical manuscripts. the second purpose was to compare these findings with new medical information. materials and methods cardinal traditional medical and pharmacological texts from 10th to 18th century were searched for traditional terms of dementia (nesyan, fisad-uz-zekr, faram...

the change in the concept of social development over the last few decades, from the physical aspects to human dimensions has increased women’s participation in socio-economic activities and enhancement of their capabilities has been regarded as key strategies in sustainable development. the present study attempts to achieve the following objective: investigation of the impacts of ngo’s activiti...