OBJECTIVES To describe a new bench model for oral precancer/cancer biopsy training and to assess its effectiveness in terms of trainees' perception. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional, descriptive, performed on 424 general dental practitioners (GDP) who undertook biopsies on a pig tongue. The participants were assessed by direct observation for 2.5 hours using specific check-lists and by means of a...

The most apt reply to this query is because the peripheral public health delivery system in India is in shambles and almost non-existent in some states such as U.P. and Bihar. It does not have enough expertise nor infrastructure to either investigate or control any ongoing epidemic. The expected ‘knee-jerk’ response of the health administration is to rebuff any attempt to highlight emergence of...

Physicians worldwide are being encouraged to apply evidence-based medicine (EBM) to improve their clinical care. A cross-sectional questionnaire study was carried to determine the knowledge, attitudes and practices regarding EBM among 182 primary care physicians in Doha, Qatar. The current promotion of EBM was welcomed by most physicians (98.4%). While 92.2% had access to the Internet, this was...

1188 JAMC • 18 AVR. 2000; 162 (8) Ann Bolster, the CMA’s associate director of online services and a former managing editor at CMAJ, has been named a fellow of the 4000-member American Medical Writers Association (AMWA). There are roughly 130 AMWA fellows; the list includes former BMJ editor Stephen Lock and former CMAJ editor Bruce Squires. Bolster has held almost every position in AMWA’s Cana...

Schools of nursing with doctoral programs were surveyed to determine current approaches and elicit suggestions for institutional- and professional-level strategies to promote scientific integrity. Results from 38 schools are reported in a two-part series. Part 1 reports findings concerning formal and informal instruction about responsible science and the standards, norms, and guidelines being u...

31 Four themes with potencial examples of modules for a virtual exhibition on the “Mathematics of Planet Earth” by Christiane Rousseau We will support the mission of CIM to develop and promote mathematics in Portugal and to strengthen international outreach. We will organize and promote presentations and mini courses given by accomplished mathematicians. We will organize and promote seminars an...

The International Symposium on Auto­ phagy (ISA) is an important meeting with a long history devoted solely to the topic of autophagy. Yoshimori Ohsumi (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan), who identified a series of autophagy­related genes (ATG genes) in yeast [1], proposed and organized the first ISA in Okazaki, Japan, in 1997. Over the years, the ISA sym­ posia have witnessed the explosive...

s of poster presentations are listed in a separate section. Poster codes correspond to the numbers of the poster boards. Please refer to the Final Program for a detailed explanation of the coding system. The codes are also used as a reference in the Index of Authors. Code . . . . . . . . . . . . page Training Courses TC . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42-51 Plenary Session WACC PS WACC . . . . . ...

A U.S. mental health consultant worked closely with medical personnel soon after a volcanic eruption and mud avalanche killed about 22,000 persons and devastated the area around Armero, Colombia. The consultant conducted workshops and courses on crisis intervention for health personnel operating disaster relief units and for mental health professionals, pediatric nurses, and family workers; she...

An eight-session interdisciplinary laboratory curriculum has been designed using a suite of analytical chemistry techniques to study biomaterials derived from an inexpensive source such as the tomato fruit. A logical progression of research-inspired laboratory modules serves to "tour" the macroscopic characteristics of the fruit and the submicroscopic properties of its constituent cuticular bio...