background: continuing medical education (cme) of general practitioners (gps) regarding most of the diseases, especially psychiatric disorders, is implementing worldwide to maintain and develop their knowledge, skills, and professional performance. we investigated the effects of cme on gps knowledge in the field of psychiatric disorders in dezful university of medical sciences (dums) as a newly...

Background: Social responsiveness of the curriculum is aimed at directing all medical education activities to the training of physicians able to meet the health needs of the target community. Since medical education has moved towards a community-centered and community-based approach, significant attention has been paid to the concept of social responsiveness of medical education. Therefore, the...

introduction. tuberculosis is one of the important diseases caused by mycobacterium tuberculosis , bovis and africanum and has infected one third of worlds population. the highest priority of any tuberculosis control program should be on case finding and treatment. this study was done to determine the level of awareness of general practitioners and interns in yasuj. methods. this study was done...

General practitioners are unlikely to receive the exact level of remuneration recommended in the 16th report of the doctors' and dentists' review body' even if the level was accepted in full by the government and implemented from 1 April. This alarming sounding position is so because general practitioners' remuneration is a series of fees and allowances designed to produce an average income acr...

Sir, I think the Journal was right to publish the interesting article by Dr K. Williams (January Journal, p.33), based on a study of 500 women years, particularly as this must roughly correspond to the number of women 'on the Pill' in many practices. In my opinion, there was a great enough number of patients with chest pain in the study for the conclusion to be valid. I agreed that it does not ...