To ascertain the views of senior house officers and registrars on the educational and training component of their posts, a questionnaire was sent to all full-time doctors working in training posts in general and/or geriatric medicine at three district general and three teaching hospitals. Completed questionnaires were received from 64 (61%) of 105 doctors who were contacted. Most had a careers ...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of nutritional risk in surgical patients of a teaching hospital and its associated factors. METHODS A cross-sectional study with secondary data of surgical ward patients of the Hospital Escola da Universidade Federal de Pelotas, from April to October, 2010. Patients were evaluated up to 36 hours after admission using the Malnutrition Screening Tool. RESULT...

BACKGROUND Despite supernumerary registrars (SNRs) being hosted in South African (SA) training programmes, there are no reports of their experience. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the experience of SNRs at the University of Cape Town, SA, and the experience of SNRs from the perspective of SA registrars (SARs). METHODS SNRs and SARs completed an online survey in 2012. RESULTS Seventy-three registr...

BACKGROUND Hospital-acquired infection due to meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is common within intensive-care units. Single room or cohort isolation of infected or colonised patients is used to reduce spread, but its benefit over and above other contact precautions is not known. We aimed to assess the effectiveness of moving versus not moving infected or colonised patients in ...

During our day-to-day practice, we, as clinicians, occasionally come across patients whose symptomatology is atypical. In major teaching hospitals, it is usually easy to consult with other specialists to optimize patient management and standard of care. Our study patients were treated by the authors between January 1998 and January 2003. In this article, the authors report on 6 different cases ...

this study was a field study for determining views of clinical nurses about the problems of patient teaching at three levels of patient teaching process.   i this study had five main aims: first, to determine demographic characteristics of clinical nurses, second, third and fourth, to determine their views about the problems of patient teaching at each level of patient teaching process, fifth, ...

BACKGROUND After splenectomy, patients are at increased risk of sepsis with considerable mortality. This risk can be reduced by taking preventive measures, such as prescribing immunizations and antibiotic prophylaxis. Studies from various countries show that a substantial percentage of patients are not managed adequately. The aim of the present study was to investigate the quality of care in th...

dear editor clinical environments encounter is an important part of studying medicine (1). patient contact as an integral part of medical education occurs in various formats in the clinical settings (2, 3). during clinical training, medical students may experience high levels of stress, and some may not deal with it well. the abruptness of students’ transition to the clinical setting generated ...

abstract background: effective patient–professional communication can be of crucial importance to long-term psycho-social outcomes in patients with cancer. a cross sectional study was conducted to examine cancer patients' satisfaction with regard to various aspects of communication and information given by nurses. methods: a proportional stratified sampling method was done and data collect...

background: one way of developing nursing education is using of new teaching methods. one of this student based method that has been introduced recently is case-based teaching method. so the aim of this study was to assess the opinion of nursing student about case-based teaching method and comparison with lecture in zanjan faculty of nursing and midwifery in 2011.   methods: this is a quasiexpe...