background despite the vast use of herbal medicines in the world, little is known about their use in pregnancy and the attitudes of pregnant women regarding their safety during pregnancy. objectives the aim of this study was to evaluate the use and attitudes of pregnant women toward herbal medicine use in pregnancy in iran. materials and methods a questionnaire was completed by 400 women select...

To confront the challenges facing modern health care, experts and organizations are calling for an increase in physician leadership capabilities. In response to this need, physician leadership programs are proliferating, targeting all levels of experience at all levels of training. Many academic medical centers, major universities, and specialty societies now sponsor physician leadership traini...

RESULTS: After the CME, intervention physicians (n=9) more frequently diagnosed otitis media with effusion (OME) (28% of all OM diagnoses) compared to nonintervention physicians (n=90) (11.1% OME diagnoses) (p =0.003). Analysis of 1938 OM episodes showed CME intervention physicians wrote prescriptions for 59% (95% confidence Interval (52%-66%) of episodes compared to 88% (95% CI = 82-90%) of ep...

Marc Cohen is currently the Director of the Complementary Medicine Unit at Monash University and Vice President of the Australian Integrative Medicine Association. He received his MBBS from Monash Universi~. after completing a Bachelor of Medical Science and a PhD in Traditional Chinese Medicine. For the past six years he has been responsible for creating teaching programs in acupuncture and co...

BACKGROUND Diabetes mellitus is a common chronic disease needing long-term glycaemic control to prevent complications. Guidelines are available for achievement of optimal glycaemic control, but these are seldom properly instituted. OBJECTIVES To determine if a physician education programme and a structured consultation schedule would improve the quality of diabetes patient care in a diabetes ...

INTRODUCTION Emergency department (ED) crowding negatively impacts patient care quality and efficiency. To reduce crowding many EDs use a physician-in-triage (PIT) process. However, few studies have evaluated the effect of a PIT processes on resident education. Our objective was to determine the impact of a PIT process implementation on resident education within the ED of an academic medical ce...

FOAM is ‘free open-access med(ical ed)ucation’. As such, FOAM is a dynamic collection of resources and tools for lifelong learning in medicine, as well as a community and an ethos. FOAM is continually evolving and growing rapidly, and from anarchic beginnings is increasingly attracting interest from practicing clinicians, trainees, educators, researchers and publishers alike. This article defin...

PAVMs pose unique management challenges; publication patterns indicate their importance remains poorly recognised http://ow.ly/7iIT304WYl2.