At the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, dental students are prepared not only to provide skilled care to individual patients, but also to assume responsibility for the community as a whole. In establishing the rural posting program for dental students, it was planned that all fifth year dental students would undertake a rural posting at Igboora, approximately 80 km from Ibadan, the capita...

OBJECTIVE The opinion about pharmacy services was studied using an instrument which measured satisfaction with pharmacy services. The main focus of the instrument was to assess patients' opinion and expectation of the present pharmacy services. METHOD The instrument contained 20 items, which were grouped based on their similarity into eight dimensions, namely, General satisfaction, Interperso...

After introductory comments and some words of caution regarding certain modern trends in medical education, I shall set down, as I see them, the items of prime importance in the education and character of those who aspire to high endeavor in medicine. Scripture tells us that the Lord spoke out of the whirlwind to his servant, Job, saying: "Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without kno...

PURPOSE To describe community leaders' perceptions regarding the impact of a fully distributed undergraduate medical education program on a small, medically underserved host community. METHOD The authors conducted semistructured interviews in 2007 with 23 community leaders representing, collectively, the education, health, economic, media, and political sectors. They reinterviewed six partici...

Search engines available in the current scenario provides the content in number of fields whether it is related to science, technology, research or education but there is a scope of improvement which can lead to a search engine for a specific filed such as search engine specifically for Education purpose. A search engine hardly provides essential educational related content relevant to the stud...

a quasi experimental study was made to determine the effect of in-service education on knowledge, attitude and behavior for controlling hospital infections among nurses aids working in teaching hospitals supervised by the ministry of medical sciences and health care services (tehran,1994).   the sample consisted of 75 randomly selected nurses aids who answered the pre and post in service educat...

introduction. with constant changes in health care it is imperative that nursing education programs themselves act as agents of change. nursing education has the responsibility to produce nursing professionals and expert practitioners to shape the nursing practice not merely respond to changes in the practice environment. it must prepare nurses who can participate as full partners in health car...