Background: There is no active strategy for childhood vision screening in Bulgaria. The only regular eye examination is made by general practitioners or pediatricians. Method: Literature review. Aims: Comparing the condition of childhood eye healthcare in general practice in our country with other countries and determining the disadvantages. Results: The screening performed for childhood eye di...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate participants' perceptions of the impact on them of an additional six months' training beyond the standard 12 month general practice vocational training scheme. DESIGN Qualitative study using focus groups. SETTING General practice vocational training in Northern Ireland. PARTICIPANTS 13 general practitioner registrars, six of whom participated in the additional six mo...

An objective structured clinical examination was written to evaluate the primary care teaching in Southampton medical school's third year curriculum. Its transition from a summative to a formative evaluation is described. During the academic year 1985-86 the examination was completed by 115 students in 12 groups, and the results give some support to its validity. Students reported that they had...

The General Health Questionnaire of Goldberg was used as an indicator of morbidity in three groups of a Military General Practice in British Army of the Rhine. Group 1 consisted of 299 service and civilian consecutive new attenders at the General Practice. Group 2 of 80 attenders for routine medical examination and Group 3 of a community sample of 446 soldiers from units in the practice area. P...

BACKGROUND The College of General Practitioners of Malaysia and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners held the first Conjoint Member of the College of General Practitioners (MCGP)/Fellow of Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (FRACGP) examination in 1982, later renamed the Conjoint MAFP/FRACGP examinations. The examination assesses competency for safe independent g...

Laboratory tests necessary for the diagnosis of leprosy have not been well introduced in general hospitals and clinical laboratories. Therefore, several tests have been performed in Leprosy Research Center, National Institute of Infectious Diseases since July, 1997, as a part of administrative examinations (tests done by request of Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare). These examinations inc...

THE MULTIPLE CHOICE QUESTION EXAMINATION has been shown to be a reliable method of measuring a candidate's ability to recognize and recall the facts that are relevant to a doctor's training (Wood 1961, Hubbard and Clemans 1961). Because the answers to multiple choice'questions are predetermined, they can be scored by a computer; this can be programmed to give correlations and tables as required...

BACKGROUND Patients often seek doctors of the same sex, particularly for sex-specific complaints and also because of a perception that doctors have greater knowledge of complaints relating to their own sex. Few studies have investigated differences in knowledge by sex of candidate on sex-specific questions in medical examinations. AIM The aim was to compare the performance of males and femal...

BACKGROUND This study aims to determine whether periodontal conditions or dental health behaviors are risk factors for preterm birth (PTB), and whether periodontal pathogens are risk indicators for PTB among Korean mothers. METHODS This study was designed as a hospital-based case-control study. Examiner masking was ensured for the validity of the examinations. The mothers included those who g...