Objective: This study was designed to explore the potential association between severity of impact coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic on perceptions and attitudes among medical interns. Material Methods: The carried out as qualitative key informant semi-structured interviews, were enrolled from September-October 2020 using a convenience sampling used recruit nine interns at King Faisa...

BACKGROUND Hepatitis is an inflammatory disease of the liver. In sever cases, it may lead to permanent liver damage including liver cirrhosis or hepato-cellular carcinoma and may ultimately lead to death. Health-care workers (HCWs), due to their regular contact with patients are at a high-risk of acquiring this disease. AIM The aim of this study was to assess the knowledge and attitude toward...

OBJECTIVE The aim of this study was to examine the effects of a new social determinants of health curriculum on pediatric interns' attitudes, knowledge, documentation, and clinical practice. METHODS A nonrandomized mixed-methods study of an educational intervention conducted over a 1-year period was performed. The 2008-2009 pediatric interns (intervention group) participated in a new social d...

Background: Nowadays, the question of separation between training and clinics in many clinical fields is extensively debated, and all universities endeavor to present their theoretical education in a close connection with the clinics’ settings. Medical students require novel educational approaches that will enable them to have an efficient performance in clinical settings. The present study was...

introduction. the assessment of learning needs is one of the basic stages in education which leads to a change in medical education curriculum. such assessment can be conducted based on different reasons. therefore it should be defined, and the methods of application of the findings must be analyzed. one of the known methods of need assessment is the analysis of the differences between the pres...

While China is comprehensively promoting the rule of law and building a socialist legal country, construction awareness among medical students also receiving strong attention from people all walks life. At present, education for interns weak, so it urgent to start multiple aspects propose practical feasible measures enhance interns. In face today’s complex doctor-patient relationship, necessary...

BACKGROUND The American Center for Reproductive Medicine's summer internship course in reproductive medicine and research at Cleveland Clinic is a rigorous, results-oriented annual program that began in 2008 to train both local and international students in the fundamentals of scientific research and writing. The foremost goal of the program is to encourage premedical and medical students to as...

We would like to thank Dr Sarani and Dr Alarcon for their critique of our work, published online in Critical Care on 12 January 2005 [1]. We have reviewed the critique, and in general we think that it appropriately describes both the strengths and limitations of our studies. We would like to make a few minor factual clarifications. First, although the study by Lockley and colleagues used a with...

Introduction. Practicing medicine needs correct, up to date and easy to use information resources. This study is designed to investigate different aspects of the resources used by internal medicine attending physicians, residents and interns. Methods. All attendings (n: 43), residents (n: 23) and interns (n: 33) of internal medicine ward were, after receiving a brief introduction about the ai...