INTRODUCTION The purpose of this study was to determine the criteria evaluated by directors of endodontic specialty programs in the United States when selecting their residents and their satisfaction with the current process. Besides this, the study also aimed to determine the expected effect of the change in National Board Dental Examination (NBDE) score reporting to pass/fail on applicant eva...

The development of programme strategies for integration of HIV, food and nutrition activities in refugee settings Cover picture : WFP / Andrew Thorne-Lyman UNAIDS concerning the legal status of any country, territory, city or area or of its authorities, or concerning the delimitation of its frontiers or boundaries. The mention of specific companies or of certain manufacturers' products does not...

OBJECTIVE To investigate annual health checks for patients of 75 years and over required by the 1990 contract for general practitioners. DESIGN Visits to practices to collect information on how assessments were organised and carried out; completion of questionnaires for every patient who had been assessed in a sample month, using information provided by the practice records. SETTING 20 gene...

OBJECTIVE To determine how the timing and length of hospital discharge letters impact on the number of ongoing patient problems identified by general practitioners (GPs). TRIAL DESIGN GPs were randomised into four groups. Each viewed a video monologue of an actor-patient as he might present to his GP following a hospital admission with 10 problems. GPs were provided with a medical record as w...

"Passion and Profession; Doctors in Skirts," is based on the extensive correspondence between Dr. Frieda Fraser and Dr. Edith Bickerton Williams, two Canadian women who were lovers from 1924 and life partners from 1937, until the death of Dr. Williams in 1979. Dr. Fraser became a prominent researcher and lecturer of Microbiology at the University of Toronto. Dr. Williams was one of the first wo...

BACKGROUND Wide variations in rates of referral from primary to secondary care have been a matter of concern for many years. Effective strategies for optimizing referral depend on doctors being able to understand what the influences on their referral behaviour are, as well as having the ability to identify priority areas for action and to develop strategies for pushing through effective measure...

Objectives To investigate whether sending patients a copy of their referral letter can reduce non-attendance at outpatient departments. Design Blinded randomised controlled trial. Setting 13 general practices in Exeter, Devon. Subjects 2078 new consultant referrals from 26 doctors. Main outcome measures Non-attendance at outpatient departments. Results The doctors excluded 117 (5.6%) referrals,...

The present study was designed to assess the effectiveness of a stimulus programming technique, fading, in teaching visual discrimination and name association to the letters £-d and E-~· The Qs were first and second grade children with diagnosed learning disabilities, who displayed a high frequency of reversal errors, particularly to the letters £-£ and E-~· The study also provided a means of a...

Evaluating Senior Nursing Students' Attitude toward Evidence-Based Practice Parvin Mangolian Shahrbabaki1, 2, Jamileh Farokhzadian3*, Sakineh Sabzvari4 Ÿ Received: 05. 11. 2015             Ÿ Revised: 09. 01. 2016              Ÿ Accepted: 27. 01. 2016 1. PhD...