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Abstract Abdominal Wall surgery is often considered the initial step in training of General Surgery residents. However, that not standardized. The resident committee Portuguese Society Hernia and (SPHPA) conducted a survey to general community, addressing inguinal incisional hernia surgery. Its aim was analyze reality abdominal wall Portugal. 100 answers were validated - 43 from specialists 57 ...

BACKGROUND Students' selection of a specialty is an important decision in their career as a physician. While distinguishing primary care physicians from non-primary care specialists has served a purpose for how medicine is practiced and managed, considering alternative ways of grouping specialties is appropriate when exploring specialty decisions. PURPOSE This study explored how early special...

We measured the impact of COVID-19 pandemic on mental health and burnout French residents. Residents completed a questionnaire assessing their personal life, work, social relationships, health, burden psychological pandemic. The Maslach Burnout Inventory (MBI) allowed to identify 5 classes increasing severity: free, intermediate, 1, 2 or 3 dimensions severely impacted. Variables significantly l...

Introduction: selecting a specialty is one of the most difficult decision of medical practitioners, and this selection depends on personal factors, such as motives and dimensions of personality traits. Therefore, this study investigates relation between of dimensions of Personality traits on selecting the specialty for Medical Students of Mashhad University of Medical SciencesMethods: This cros...

objectives: cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in united states and many parts of the world. this study aimed to evaluate the risk factors of coronary artery disease in residents and non-residents of elderly care homes in tehran. methods & materials: in this descriptive study, about 382 elderly with above 65 years of age participated, from whom 191 were non-resident and 191 we...

BACKGROUND An increasing number of students rank Emergency Medicine (EM) as a top specialty choice, requiring medical schools to provide adequate exposure to EM. The Core Entrustable Professional Activities (EPAs) for Entering Residency by the Association of American Medical Colleges combined with the Milestone Project for EM residency training has attempted to standardize the undergraduate and...

introduction: over the past 30 years, recognizing the need and importance of training residents in teaching skills has resulted in several resident-as-teacher programs. the purpose of this study was to explore the impact of this teaching initiative and investigate the improvement in residents’ teaching skills through evaluating their satisfaction and perceived effectiveness as well as assessing...

introduction: it has been found that the decision-making process in medicine is affected, to a large extent, by one’s experience, individual mentality, previous models, and common habitual approaches, in addition to scientific principles. evidence-based medicine is an approach attempting to reinforce scientific, systematic and critical thinking in physicians and provide the ground for optimal d...