DISCLOSURES: NIL ABSTRACT Aims: To compare the anaesthesia and surgical manpower in four tertiary hospitals in Nigeria and assess the anaesthesia work load in those institutions; to determine the per capita anaesthetist manpower in Nigeria (anaesthesia providers per 100,000 population) and compare with what obtains in other regions of the world. Materials and Methods: This is a multicentre stud...

BACKGROUND The Stanford Faculty Development Center (SFDC) at Stanford University developed a teaching improvement course for medical teachers that has been widely disseminated using a train-the-trainer model. We were curious to see if cultural factors might influence the applicability and impact of the course when delivered to non-American participants by a facilitator from that culture. METH...

UNLABELLED The aim of the present study was to monitor adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in the Medicine out patient department (OPD) of a University Teaching Hospital. METHOD A prospective evaluation of the ADRs reported in the Department of Medicine of our University Teaching Hospital over a period of 4-months was conducted. RESULTS During the study period, a total of 600 patients visited the...

a Department of Radiology, Shanghai General Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China, and Department of Radiology, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Jiao Tong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China b Shanghai Institute of Traumatology and Orthopaedics, Shanghai Key Laboratory for Prevention and Treatment of Bone and Joint Diseases, Ruijin Hospital, Shanghai Ji...

1Department of Dentistry, Rwanda Military Hospital, PO Box 3377, Kigali, Rwanda 2University of Rwanda, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology, PO Box 5229, Kicukiro, Kigali, Rwanda 3Department of Clinical Research, University Teaching Hospital of Kigali, Kigali, Rwanda 4Departments of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, School of Public Health, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of ...

Richard O. Phillips, Fred S. Sarfo, Mohammed K. Abass, Michael Frimpong, Edwin Ampadu, Mark Forson, Yaw A. Amoako, William Thompson, Kingsley Asiedu, Mark Wansbrough-Jones Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH), Kumasi, Ghana; Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Kumasi, Ghana; St. George’s University of London, London, United Kingdom; Agogo Presbyterian Hospital, Agogo, G...

a Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA b Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA c Department of Biomedical Engineering, University of Ghana, Legon – Accra, Ghana d Department of Electrical Engineering, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda e Design Science Program, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA f Department of...

a Department of Medicine, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans, USA b Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Safe Motherhood Program, Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, USA c Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Zambia, University Teaching Hospital, Lusaka, Zambia d Departmen...