BACKGROUND Mistreatment of medical students during medical education is a widespread concern. Studies have shown that medical students report the most mistreatment compared to students of other study programs and that the prevalence of mistreatment peaks during clinical training. For this reason, a study was conducted to assess prevalence of mistreatment among medical students committed by vari...

THERE IS A TRADITION for doctors to teach their colleagues and students. The Hippocratic oath states, in part, that the duties of a doctor are " ...to teach them this art, if they want to learn it, without fee or indenture ". 1 Sharing expertise is regarded as a rewarding and enjoyable aspect of medicine. But it is becoming harder. The task is to maintain our teaching commitments while improvin...

Studying the suicide in the Byzantine Empire is difficult due to the limited number of references to it. Their number is greater in the early years of the Empire, mainly because of the persecution of Christians and gradually decreases. The attitude of the Church also gradually hardens, as well as the law. The law was strictly followed to the West, but as far as the Eastern Empire is concerned t...

to become exclusively a medical institution focusing on curative procedures, and ultimately to expand its clientele to all levels of society. While large-scale involvement of medical men with hospitals doubtless preceded the administrative-institutional transformation of the latter (medical professionalization around the hospital clinic in France following the Revolution may have been one neces...

This chapter reviews Cooley’s idea of the looking glass self, and Goffman’s elaboration. It can be formulated as a conjecture that links two concepts: shared awareness and the social emotions. Cooley assumed that we live in the minds of others, and named pride and shame as the emotions that resulted. Goffman added embarrassment and humiliation. His basic work, Presentation of Self in Everyday L...

School bullying has become a major social problem in Korea after the emergence of media reports on children who committed suicide after being victimized by bullies. In this article, we review the characteristics of bullying, and investigate the role of the pediatrician in the prevention of and intervention against bullying and school violence. Bullying can take on many forms such as physical th...

Simply stated, trauma changes the brain. Some of the most persistent changes in the brain involve the capacity to acquire new cognitive information and retrieve stored information—both essential for effective functioning within our current educational system. The result is that, all too often, traumatized children experience the added insult of doing poorly in school, thereby failing within the...

CONTEXT Previous studies have drawn attention to the importance of the trainee/trainer relationship in determining job satisfaction and motivation to learn. OBJECTIVES To study the relationship between pre-registration house officers and their consultants through exploring an interpersonal exchange and the emotional context in which the exchange took place. To consider any association between...

This article draws on research into the use of music in the context of torture--both as a technique of torture and as a means of rehabilitation--to ask what types of musical activities and practices may constitute ill-treatment, up to and including torture. As well as providing information on the ways music is used in the context of torture and cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishmen...

This manuscript explores the state’s political use of the past and the function of history education in political transition and foreign relations. Modern historical consciousness in China is largely characterized by the ‘‘one hundred years of humiliation’’ from mid-1800s to mid1900s when China was attacked, bullied, and torn asunder by imperialists. This research focuses initially on how such ...