INTRODUCTION The rural health system in India has long been disadvantaged by a shortage of health staff, including doctors. Providing medical students with a rural clinical placement has been suggested as one strategy to overcome this shortage. This study examined the attitudes of and inclination to rural healthcare careers among medical students. METHODS A cross-sectional study was performed...

Many empirical studies are carried out to explore factors affecting college students’ performance. The focus of this research is that student performance in intermediate examination is associated with students’ profile consisted of his attitude towards attendance in classes, time allocation for studies, parents’ level of income, mother’s age and mother’s education. The research is based on stud...

Approximately two million students matriculate into American colleges and universities per year. Almost 20% of these students begin taking a series of courses specified by advisers of health preprofessionals. The single most important influence on health profession advisers and on course selection for this huge population of learners is the Medical College Admissions Test (MCAT), which was last...

The purpose of this research was to investigate how university students' nutrition beliefs influence their health behavioral intention. This study used an online survey engine (Qulatrics.com) to collect data from college students. Out of 253 questionnaires collected, 251 questionnaires (99.2%) were used for the statistical analysis. Confirmatory Factor Analysis (CFA) revealed that six dimension...

1 Department of Neurology and Neurosurgery, College of Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA 2Department of Health Science & Research, College of Health Professions, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA 3 Ralph H. Johnson VA Medical Center, Charleston, SC 29425, USA 4Department of Neuroscience, College of Medicine, Medical Universit...

From the Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surges-, College of Dentistry, and the Division of Plastic Surgery, Department of Surgery, College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois . This investigation was supported in part by a research grant_ from the National Institutes of Health, U. S. Public Health Service, and by a grant from the Graduate College Research Board of the U...

* Department of Pediatrics, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY † Department of Public Health, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY ‡ Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY § New York-Presbyterian Hospital, New York, NY ** Health Information Technology Evaluation Collaborative, New York, NY †† Weill Cornell Physicians Organization, New York, NY ‡‡ Tac...

1Department of Psychiatry, College of Medicine and Hospital, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan 2Institute of Behavioral Medicine, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan 3Institute of Allied Health Sciences, College of Medicine, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan 4Addiction Research Center, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan 5Cent...

Author details Population and Patient Health, King’s College London Dental Institute, Denmark Hill Campus, Bessemer Road, London SE5 9RS, UK. Oral Medicine Department, Faculty of Dentistry, Damascus University, Damascus, Syria. Eastman Dental Institute, University College London, London WC1X 8LD, UK. Centre for International Child Oral Health, King’s College London, 26-29 Drury Lane, Rooms 329-...

OBJECTIVE Considering the association between medical school dropout and psychiatric distress, we aimed to assess the prevalence of psychiatric distress among medical students at Dubai Medical College. METHODS One hundred and three medical students were chosen randomly and were assessed by the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ). RESULTS The mean age for the students was 18.85 year (Minimum:...