Embedding instruction in practice: contingency and collaboration during surgical training

Perceptions of gender-based discrimination during surgical training and practice

Background Women represent 15% of practicing general surgeons. Gender-based discrimination has been implicated as discouraging women from surgery. We sought to determine women's perceptions of gender-based discrimination in the surgical training and working environment. Methods Following IRB approval, we fielded a pilot survey measuring perceptions and impact of gender-based discrimination in m...

Evaluating Blood Requests and Transfusion Practice in Major Surgical Procedures

Background: Red blood cell and other blood products play a crucial role in management of different disease processes, but in spite of implementation of crucial steps to improve the process of request for blood and blood consumption, there is still not enough information available regarding the proper practice in many medical centres. We aimed to evaluate the status of blood product requests and...

Medical-surgical collaboration in the practice of gastroenterology.

persian true and false cognates in english: students and teachers’ attitudes, awareness, and instruction

the ability to speak two languages in the world is a remarkable achievement. there is a good reason to believe that bilingualism is the norm for the majority of people in the world because 70% of the earth’s population are supposed to be bilingual or multilingual. various investigations have shown that the native language impacts foreign word recognition, and this influence is adapted by the de...

Pregnancy during postgraduate surgical training.

O ver the years, a fair amount of research on pregnancy and postgraduate medical training has been completed. A simple PubMed search on this topic generates hundreds of hits, and yet we are not done examining this very important topic. In this issue of the Canad ian Journal of Surgery, Merchant and colleagues address this topic again. They discuss pregnancy as a potential cause for lack of inte...