conclusions this case report underscores the role of fetal echocardiography in the prenatal diagnosis of cardiac disease and illustrates rhabdomyomas in a tuberous sclerosis patient. rhabdomyomas are histologically benign; however, they may cause severe arrhythmia even when they are regressing. case presentation our tuberous sclerosis patient developed arrhythmia unexpectedly while his tumors w...

BACKGROUND Malawi has a high burden of paediatric cardiac disease but a limited number of health providers familiar with these chronic diseases. Given the rising number of Malawian postgraduate paediatric trainees at the University of Malawi College of Medicine, we sought to remedy this lack of basic cardiology training with a long-distance, module-based curriculum that could be utilised indepe...

Beyond the adoption of the principles of horizontal and vertical integration, significant planning and implementation of curriculum reform is needed. This report presents two studies done on the medical educational curriculum of Faculty of Medicine (FOM), King Abdulaziz Univerty (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia as well a local experience from FOM, Mansoura University, Egypt. The first study proposed...

results the electrophysiology laboratory staff received higher doses of ionizing radiation (17.2 ± 11.9 msv; p < 0.001). there was a significant positive correlation between the years of working experience and effective dose in the lens (p < 0.001). in general, our findings showed that the incidence of lens opacity was 79% (95% ci, 69.9-88.1) in participants with exposure (the case group) and o...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Information on the effect of students' class attendance on examination performance in a problem-based learning medical curriculum is limited. This study investigates the impact of different educational activities on students' academic performance in a problem-based learning curriculum. METHODS This is a retrospective cohort study conducted on the cardiology block at the Co...

BACKGROUND Teaching of health and medical concepts in the K-12 curriculum may help improve health literacy. PURPOSE The purpose of this project was to determine acceptability and preliminary efficacy of pilot implementation of a health literacy curriculum using brief clips from a popular television program. METHODS Participants included 55 ninth-grade students in a low-income school with a ...

Important changes are taking place in the care required by cardiology patients, regardless of whether it is provided in outpatient clinics, regional hospitals or a tertiary hospital. We are all aware of the fact that addressing the new health care needs will require a greater number of professionals, but that an acceptable level of quality must be maintained. Among the measures that are being i...