Introduction: The great population of about 16 million students in our country and their health problems require more attention to the health of students. Students due to low age and consequently lack of adequate experience are exposed to various types of accidents in schools. Accidents are the leading cause of death in 5 to 17 year old children. The aim of this study was to determine the incid...

Background: During root canal treatment procedures, unexpected accidents may be confronted affecting long-term prognosis just as in any other dental treatment. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the knowledge of dental students of accidents and errors during endodontic treatment in Medical University of Babol. Materials and Methods: In this cross-sectional study, 52 senior dental student...

There are many reasons for the recent resurgence of interest in lecture demonstrations. Lecture demonstrations are fun. They grab the students' attention. Students like them. They provide breaks that help students recover from the deluge of information in the typical lecture. They can provide concrete examples of abstractconcepts. As Ramette has noted, they can be exocharmic ( I ) . M O S ~ imp...

This study aimed to verify the opinion of speech-language pathology teachers and undergraduate students about human accidents and investigate if they are seeking for knowledge and competence in this area. Fifty-two teachers and 95 students from 3 public and 3 private universities in São Paulo took part in this study. Data were collected by means of a questionnaire. According to the participants...

PURPOSE To provide information on the incidence, types and circumstances of injuries sustained in a group of young people with epilepsy using protective helmets. METHODS Thirty-three residential students (21 M, 12 F, age range 5-21, mean 14.5 years) attending a special epilepsy centre over 1 year were provided with helmets. The types of protective measures, seizure frequency, types of injurie...

Traffic accidents are one of the main cause of death in modern societies. Next to circulatory diseases and cancer, road accidents are probably the third major cause of death in the developed world [1]. Traffic accidents kill 1.2 million people every year and injure or disable as many as 50 million more. They are the second leading cause of death globally among young people aged 5 to 29 years an...

The number of underrepresented minorities (URMs; black or African American, Hispanic or Latino, American Indian or Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander) among US medical school faculty is markedly low when compared with their respective percent representation of the US population. Women URMs are doubly underrepresented, particularly as the academic rank advances from the ins...

BACKGROUND Population growth and use of the car in daily life entails new incidents and accidents everyday. Adolescents' entering the new world of adults, their insufficient knowledge of rules, and high-risk behaviors expose them to more risks. Accordingly, a study was conducted with the aim to evaluate the status of preventive behaviors in traffic accidents in boy and girl junior high school s...