OBJECTIVE To evaluate the knowledge of, and perception of female undergraduates in the Niger Delta of Nigeria towards Emergency Contraception. METHODS Anonymous self administered questionnaires were applied to randomly selected non-medical female undergraduates of the University of Port Harcourt in May 2005. RESULTS Six hundred questionnaires were retrieved out of 610 distributed. The respo...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate medical students' knowledge of HPV and HPV related diseases and assess their attitudes towards HPV vaccination. METHODS A total of 605 medical undergraduates from Chongqing Medical University in China were surveyed using a structured and pretested questionnaire on HPV related knowledge. RESULTS Some 68.9% of the medical students were females, and mean age was 21.6 (±1...

People are renowned for their failure to consider alternative hypotheses. We compare neglect of alternative causes when people make predictive versus diagnostic probability judgments. One study with medical professionals reasoning about psychopathology and two with undergraduates reasoning about goals and actions or about causal transmission yielded the same results: neglect of alternative caus...

Objective: To study the prevalence of Internet Addiction among Medical undergraduates and Interns exploration its association with anxiety disorders.
 Methods: It is a cross-sectional survey conducted 540 undergraduate medical students 93 at Government College, Ananthapuramu. Young’s Test Zung’s self-rated Anxiety scale were applied to measure addiction Anxiety, respectively.
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BackgroundThe internationalization of higher education has stimulated an ever-increasing demand for English Medical Purposes (EMP) courses nursing undergraduates in China. EMP are designed to provide learner-centered language instruction satisfy students’ communication needs the future workplace. To date, far too little attention been paid developing a well-rounded and theory-guided nurse–patie...

Menstrual disorder is a common health problem among females in their reproductive years. It has psychosocial effects on the sufferer and her interactions with others during such periods. In Nigeria, menstrual disorder has received little research attention especially in the public health agenda. This study combines quantitative and qualitative approaches in investigating the prevalence of dysme...

We describe a humanities-based, special studies module (SSM) exploring the impact of cancer on the lives of patients, families and professionals. Literature, film, art and drama provide third year medical undergraduates with vicarious experience of all of these perspectives in a format that has proved highly acceptable to students and tutors. The development, delivery, evaluation and evolution ...

Background: Although undergraduates with pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) are a distinct social group, little is known about their experiences. This paper explores the experiences and psychological processes of Chinese undergraduates with pulmonary TB. Method:A qualitative study was conducted among 17 undergraduates with pulmonary TB. Data were generated through in-depth interview. The data were rea...

Background: Anatomy is the most fundamental subject in undergraduate medical education and curriculum changing progressively for better outcomes undergraduates. Clinical integration learning has been highlighted current curriculum. Therefore, analysis of performance undergraduates on problem-based questions traditional clinical objective Regional may provide an understanding recent teaching-lea...

We present an exploratory study of how undergraduates' involvement in research influences postgraduates (i.e., graduate and postdoctoral researchers) and faculty. We used a qualitative approach to examine the relationships among undergraduates, postgraduates, and the faculty head in a research group. In this group, undergraduates viewed postgraduates as more approachable than the faculty head b...