background: behavioral risk factors are responsible for a substantial portion of chronic disease. educating patients is a professional responsibility of medical practitioners. however, it has been observed that physicians did not practice what they preach. we aimed to study whether medical colleges inculcate health‑promoting lifestyle among medical students during their stay in medical colleges...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study is to figure out the status of tinnitus management program (TMP) being conducted in India, to estimate the use of different tinnitus management program, to study the role of various professionals involved and document the current practices of audiologist in country. DESIGN A questionnaire on "tinnitus management survey" was developed and distributed to 150 insti...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In the last two decades, the curriculum in medical education has changed so as to maintain its efficiency and effectiveness. Considerable changes are underway in many medical colleges worldwide. This study assessed the current status of the undergraduate curricula in the medical colleges of the Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) countries, in relation to the SPICES (studen...

OBJECTIVE To compare the presence of intellectual wellness awareness in students of public and private sector medical colleges in a metropolitan city. METHODS The cross-sectional questionnaire-based survey was conducted from March to November 2011 at Bahria University Medical and Dental College, Karachi, and overall covered five private and 3 public sector medical colleges of the city.The stu...

ميلعتلا يف لامعلأا تافلم مادختسا روطت ،ةريخلأا دوقعلا للاخ ةساردلا يتلحرم يف اهمادختسا تمو راشتنلاا ةعساو حبصتل يبطلا تافلم نإ .ملاعلا ءاحنأ عيمج يف ايلعلا تاساردلاو ةيعمالجا قيثوتلا لئاسو نم ةليسوكو ملعتلا ةيلمع نم ءزج اهفصوب لامعلأا يتلاو رابكلل ملعتلا تايرظن للاخ نم ةميق ةادأك معدت ،مييقتلاو ملعتلا يف طارخنلالو اًيتاذ ملعتلا هيجوتل ينملعتلما ةجاح ىلع دكؤت ةيميلعت ةربخ رفوي لامعلأا تافللم حيحص...

Gerard Anderson, et al., in a recent commentary published in Health Affairs (March/April 1999), concluded that "despite dire predictions, America's teaching hospitals appear to be thriving".' This outdated conclusion, based largely on data from 1995, is dangerously optimistic and belies mounting evidence that documents the significant financial stress now facing teaching hospitals around the co...

Medical educators and public health experts have been calling on medical schools to enhance their teaching of population-based medicine for the greater part of the past decade. In June 1998, the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) emphasized the importance of integrating a population health perspective within medical school curricula with its publication of Report II of the Medical ...

PURPOSE The Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) and Drexel University College of Medicine have designed and implemented national career development programs (CDPs) to help women faculty acquire and strengthen skills needed for success in academic medicine. The authors hypothesized that skills women acquired in CDPs would vary by career stage and program attended. METHOD In 2011, t...