Saudi Students’ Translation Strategies in an Undergraduate Translator Training Program

Comparison of Three Internship Training Sites for an Undergraduate Health Information Management Program in Saudi Arabia

OBJECTIVES While internship training is well established for medical records and for healthcare quality improvement, it is not quite so for training related to IT/health informatics. A comparison was made on the hospital-based IT/health informatics internship training received by students completing their training at the Imam AbdulRahman Bin Faisal University (IAU) in the Eastern province of Sa...

Using an honors program to engage undergraduate students in research.

Enhancing medical students' communication skills: development and evaluation of an undergraduate training program

BACKGROUND There is a relative lack of current research on the effects of specific communication training offered at the beginning of the medical degree program. The newly developed communication training "Basics and Practice in Communication Skills" was pilot tested in 2008 and expanded in the following year at the University Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf in Germany. The goal was to promote...

Dental students’ perceptions of undergraduate clinical training in oral and maxillofacial surgery in an integrated curriculum in Saudi Arabia

PURPOSE The aim was to understand dental students' experiences with oral and maxillofacial surgery (OMS) teaching, their confidence levels in performing routine dento-alveolar operations, and the relationship between the students' confidence level and the number of teeth extracted during the clinical practice. METHODS The survey questionnaire was distributed to 32 students at Aljouf Universit...

Health Awareness among Female Undergraduate Medical Students in Saudi Arabia.

This study was conducted to assess the level of health awareness (HA) among students attending three undergraduate programs in the Colleges of Applied Medical Sciences (CAMS) in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (SA). A modified self-reported survey was utilized to measure HA demonstrating four domains: Nutrition (NU), Personal Health (PH), Physical Exercise (PE), and Body Build (BB). The questionnaire was ...