his paper proposes that the discipline of General Practice (Family Medicine) appropriately trains doctors to meet the identified health needs of Nepal and can make an extremely valuable contribution to the medical education of undergraduates. The paper will identify the current health needs of Nepal as revealed in The Human Resources Report of His Majesty’s Government (HMG) 2003 and demonstrate...

Background: Child dental fear is one of the behavior problems that dentists face in practice and has been linked to poor dental health. The main objectives of this study were to compare child and parental ratings of child dental fear and to assess the effect of child and parent characteristics on the ratings. Methods: The full version and the 6-item short version of the Children’s Fear Survey S...

PURPOSE Dental hygienists have often been described as the registered nurses of the dental field. Similar parallels also exist between the development of the nurse practitioner from the nursing profession and the evolution of the dental hygiene practice and profession. This article explores 3 major similarities between the professions of nurse practitioner and dental hygienist. Public health is...

Physicians are increasingly confronted with the consequences of allocation policies. In several countries, physicians have been assigned a gatekeeper role for secondary health care. Many ethicists oppose this assignment for several reasons, concentrating on the harm the intrusion of societal arguments would inflict on doctor-patient relations. It is argued that these arguments rest on a distinc...

BACKGROUND Strong primary care systems are believed to have an important role in dealing with healthcare challenges. Strengthening primary care systems is therefore a common policy goal for many countries. This study aims to investigate whether the Netherlands, the UK and Germany have strengthened their primary care systems in 2006-2012. METHOD For this cross-sectional study, data from the In...

OBJECTIVES To build and test a model for the collection of computerised retrospective primary care data from the UK, and to assess its quality for use in medical and pharmaceutical research. DESIGN Collection and evaluation of sampled retrospective general practice data recording. SETTING General practices, using the Vision practice management software in the UK. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Qua...

Faced with the challenge of restructuring a preclinical curriculum to provide a stronger background in general dentistry, a clinical simulation program that emphasizes critical thinking in clinical decision-making was developed and implemented at New York University College of Dentistry. The program offers an integrated program in clinical sciences focused on the faculty-defined outcomes for a ...

The importance of evidence for every branch of medicine in teaching in order to orient the practitioners among the great amount of most actual scientific information's, and to support clinical decisions, is well established in health care, including dentistry. The practice of evidence-based medicine is a process of lifelong, self-directed, problem-based learning which leads to the need for clin...

Dr. Atchison is Professor and Associate Dean for Research and Knowledge Management, UCLA School of Dentistry; Dr. Mito is Professor and Associate Dean, Clinical Dental Sciences, UCLA School of Dentistry; Dr. Lefever is Academic Coordinator, UCLA School of Dentistry; Mr. McCauley is Special Assistant to the Chancellor, University of California, Santa Barbara. Direct correspondence and requests f...

Nurses in general practice (termed practice nurses) are an under-utilized resource for the detection and management of patients with alcohol misuse. However, little is known about their knowledge and attitudes towards alcohol use and misuse. We therefore conducted a postal questionnaire survey of 132 practice nurses in Liverpool (UK). The results of our survey (response rate 77%) show that a kn...