INTRODUCTION Mozambique suffers from a critical shortage of healthcare workers. Mid-level healthcare workers, (Tecnicos de Medicina Geral (TMG)), in Mozambique require less money and time to train than physicians. From 2009-2010, the Mozambique Ministry of Health (MoH) and the International Training and Education Center for Health (I-TECH), University of Washington, Seattle, revised the TMG cur...

Abstract Introduction Anki is an application that capitalizes upon the techniques of spaced repetition and increasingly utilized by medical students for examination preparation. This study examines impact usage in a school curriculum on academic performance. Secondary objectives analyzed individual utilization qualitative assessment use. Methods A cohort-control was conducted at Boonshoft Schoo...

INTRODUCTION Changing from a conventional discipline-based, basic science medical school curriculum to an integrated systems-based curriculum, which was graded on overall performance not by discipline, was associated with a highly significant improvement in an externally administered comprehensive exam at the end of the 2-year basic science program. The reason for the improvement was unclear, b...

OBJECTIVE The etiology of somatization is incompletely understood, but could be elucidated by models of psychosocial stress. Academic exam stress has effectively been applied as a naturalistic stress model, however its effect on somatization symptoms according to ICD-10 and DSM-IV criteria has not been reported so far. Baseline associations between somatization and personality traits, such as a...

It is shown that application of the Rasch model for equating grades at Basic and Higher Level of Mathematics at General Matura exam in [Hauptman, Metodološki zvezki 7 (2010) 167-181.] is not justified.