BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The testicular exam was not explicitly taught at our medical schools before 2002. In this article, we explore different phases of curriculum development, implementation, and evaluation of a method for teaching the testicular exam. METHODS Medical students participated in surveys and focus groups, and male patients participated in focus groups. From the results of the...

The paper presents and analyzes the methodology of the development of dynamic web applications, illustrated by the example of the web application for exam scheduling and managing, which has been developed for the use at the University of Rijeka, Department of Informatics. The main drawback of the previous application regarded the need for "manual" search for free exam terms, because it did not ...

In this abstract we present a new exam timetabling algorithm together with a set of results on the university exam timetabling problems from the University of Toronto collection, available at ftp://ftp.mie.utoronto.ca/pub/carter/testprob/. A number of recent papers have studied these problems e.g. Carter et al. [7], Caramia et al. [6], Casey & Thompson [8], Abdullah et al. [1], Burke et al. [2]...

PURPOSE Medical students are traditionally taught the physical exam as a comprehensive battery of maneuvers, yet they express uncertainty about which maneuvers are "core" and should be performed routinely on patients and which ones should be performed only when clinically indicated. The authors sought to determine whether educator consensus existed on the concept and the specifics of a core phy...

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PURPOSE An objective tool is desired, which optimally prepares for Radiology boards examination. Such program should prepare examinees with pertinent radiological contents and simulations as expected in the real examination. BACKGROUND Many countries require written boards examinations for Radiology certification eligibility. No objective measure exists to tell if the examinee is ready to pas...

introduction: second national medical sciences olympiad was done in shiraz in august 2010 with aim of indentifying scientifically talented individuals, motivating students and orienting extracurricular activities. this olympiad was done in 3 areas, basic sciences, clinical sciences and management. in clinical sciences, we used tosce (team objective structured clinical examination). in this arti...