In resource-limited settings, the choice between utilizing biomedical health services and/or traditional healers is critical to the success of the public health mission. In the literature, this choice has been predicted to be influenced by three major factors: knowledge about biomedical etiologies; cultural modernization; and rational choice. The current study investigated all three of these pr...

INTRODUCTION Beginning with the late twentieth and early twenty-first century, the Internet was a significant additional tool in the education of teenagers. Later, it takes more and more significant role in educating students and professionals. GOAL The aim of this paper is to investigate, to what extent and how effectively the Internet is used today by students of biomedical faculties in Bos...

In the United States, physiology education during much of the 20th century was concentrated in departments of physiology in professional and graduate schools, with more diffuse representation of mostly animal and exercise physiologists in undergraduate campuses. This model began to change in the waning years of the 20th century, however, as traditional discipline-based professional school depar...

INTRODUCTION Research in medical education has increased in volume over the past decades but concerns have been raised regarding the quality of trials conducted within this field. Randomised controlled trials (RCTs) involving educational interventions that are reported in biomedical journals have been criticised for their insufficient conceptual, theoretical framework. RCTs published in journal...

Rakesh Sehgal1, Kapil Goyal1, Rupinder Kanwar2, Alka Sehgal3 and Jagat R. Kanwar2 1Department of Parasitology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research, Chandigarh, 2Nanomedicine-Laboratory of Immunology and Molecular Biomedical Research (LIMBR), Centre for Biotechnology and Interdisciplinary Biosciences (BioDeakin), Institute for Technology & Research Innovation (ITRI), Deakin Un...

Min Lin, Jeff T. Hatcher, Qin-Hui Chen, Robert D. Wurster, and Zixi (Jack) Cheng Biomolecular Science Center, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida; Exercise Science, Health and Physical Education Department, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan; and Department of Physiology, Loyola University Medical Center,...

Min Lin, Jeff T Hatcher, Qing-Hui Chen, Robert D. Wurster, Lihua Li, Zixi (Jack) Cheng Biomolecular Science Center, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL 32816, Department of Exercise Science, Health and Physical Education, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI 49931, Department of Physiology, Loyola University Medical C...

Min Lin, Jeff T. Hatcher, Qing-Hui Chen, Robert D. Wurster, Lihua Li, and Zixi (Jack) Cheng Biomolecular Science Center, Burnett School of Biomedical Sciences, College of Medicine, University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida; Department of Exercise Science, Health and Physical Education, Michigan Technological University, Houghton, Michigan; and Department of Physiology, Loyola University M...

1 Human Informatics Research Institute, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan, 2 Faculty of Health Sciences, Kyorin University, Mitaka, Japan, 3 Center for General Education, Aichi Institute of Technology, Toyota, Japan, 4 Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Japan, 5 Department of Biomedical Engineering, Toyo Universi...

1Department of Engineering Physics, Tsinghua University, Beijing 100084, China 2Key Laboratory of Particle & Radiation Imaging (Tsinghua University), Ministry of Education, Beijing 100084, China 3Sir Run Run Shaw Hospital and Institute of Translational Medicine, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang 310000, China 4Departments of Biomedical Informatics, Computer Science, and Applied Mathematic...