BACKGROUND Communication skills are essential for physicians to practice Medicine. Evidence for the validity and domain specificity of communication skills in physicians is equivocal and requires further research. This research was conducted to adduce evidence for content and context specificity of communication skills and to assess the usefulness of a generic instrument for assessing communica...

The therapeutic activities of orally administered FK482 were compared with those of reference antibiotics against systemic and local infections with a variety of bacteria in mice and rabbits. In systemic infections in mice, oral FK482 was almost as effective as oral cefaclor (CCL) and more effective than oral cephalexin (CEX) against Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumonia...

background and objective: evaluation is one of the major aspects in process of educational activities. evaluation provides the possibility to assess strengthens and weaknesses. the present study has been conducted under the goal to assess approach of students evaluation by basic sciences and clinical sciences educational groups at medical school of shiraz university of medical sciences. methods...

BACKGROUND Glucagon is a life-saving medication used in the treatment of hypoglycemia. It possesses poor solubility in aqueous buffers at or near physiological pH values. At low and high pH, at which the peptide can be formulated to concentrations of a milligram or more per milliliter, the chemical integrity of the hormone is limited, as evidenced by the formation of multiple degradation-relate...

In order to meet the industrial denitrification demands, inexpensive ferrous metals Mn and Fe have been chosen as raw materials for catalysts of CO-SCR, anti-sulfur performance ferromanganese can be greatly enhanced by Ce doping. this study, Cex-Mn0.8Fe0.2O2 were prepared co-precipitation, effects addition on structure morphology their denitration investigated with X-ray diffraction (XRD), scan...

CONTEXT Unprofessional behaviors in medical school predict high stakes consequences for practicing physicians, yet little is known about specific behaviors associated with professionalism during residency. OBJECTIVE To identify behaviors that distinguish highly professional residents from their peers. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS Comparative study of 148 first-year internal medicine re...