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Do Financial Incentives Increase Doctors’ Willingness to Publish Research? – A Pilot Study of 21 Junior Doctors

Professionalism for future humanistic doctors

Dear editor Clinical environments encounter is an important part of studying medicine (1). Patient contact as an integral part of medical education occurs in various formats in the clinical settings (2, 3). During clinical training, medical students may experience high levels of stress, and some may not deal with it well. The abruptness of students’ transition to the clinical setting generated ...

Understanding interprofessional communication: a content analysis of email communications between doctors and nurses.

BACKGROUND Clinical communication is recognized as a major source of errors in hospitals. The lack of documentation of communication, especially among verbal interactions, often creates hindrances and impedes improvement efforts. By providing smartphones to residents and encouraging nurses to communicate with residents by email shifted much of the communication to emails which permitted analysi...

Intellectual disability health content within medical curriculum: an audit of what our future doctors are taught

1) What is the name of your University? 2) What is your current position within the University? 3) What is the name of the medical degree offered by your university? 4) Is this degree graduate entry level or undergraduate? 5) What is the duration of the degree for a full-time student (in years)? 6) How many students graduated from the degree in the last academic year? 7) Approximately what perc...

Assessing patient satisfaction with Sudanese doctors

Dear editor Patients’ satisfaction has long been consideredas an important factor when gauging healthoutcome and quality of care in both developedand developing countries (1) and constitutes asubstantial indicator of the health care quality(2). Researches have shown that satisfiedpatients are more likely to develop a goodrelationship with the health system, leading toimproving compliance, conti...