BACKGROUND Training health professionals in the field of human rights has long been advocated by the United Nations. Over the past decade some medical schools have introduced health and human rights courses, yet by far not all. This paper describes the objectives and the content of the Health and Human Rights program developed at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva. METHODS The heal...

       The spread of religious doubt amongst people, especially students and young people in recent years has become a major concern. This study aimed to investigate the prevalence of religious doubt among students of Islamic Azad University and Yazd University. The present research is a cross-sectional survey. The population of Yazd University and Islamic Azad Yazd University students was ...

A profusion of valuable technology is available to provide nursing students with realistic training of fundamental nursing skills. Use of simulation technology to provide medication administration training has been demonstrated to improve safety in the adult and pediatric clinical settings (Pauly-O’Neill, 2009; Sears, Goldsworthy, & Goodman, 2010). In 2012, the Division of Nursing at Bob Jones ...

this article examines the human rights abuses perpetrated by the united nationsmissions in places like kosovo, congo and haiti where the united nations powerhas been practically comparable to the state power. it will also investigate similarcases of abuses committed by highest-ranking un officials in new yorkheadquarter and geneva offices. the violations examined in this article include notjust...

A human rights perspective must be embedded in the institutions, organisations or agencies where social work students find themselves. This paper will focus on one particular strategy that could be helpful to the process of solidifying a commitment to human rights for our students. Using a pedagogical tool from a school of social work in the USA originally developed to combat the social injusti...

Background: Students' rights has become an important part of modern education due to when thenursing students know their and reach it, they experience high satisfaction as there is almostuniversal agreement regarding the importance student across educational system. Thestudy aimed assess nursing students' educators' perception toward rightsand its relation satisfaction. Study design: Descriptiv...

BACKGROUND Medical schools have a major impact on future doctors' ethics and their attitudes towards cooperation with the pharmaceutical industry. From childhood, medical students who are related to a physician are exposed to the characteristics of a medical career and learn its professional ethics not only in school but also in the family setting. The present paper sought to answer the researc...

BACKGROUND A decade has passed since South Africa signed and ratified the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, a human rights treaty that protects the rights and dignity of people with disabilities. However, not much have changed for students with disabilities. OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to explore lecturers' experiences with, and perspectives on, disability as wel...