Teaching the telephone book

Discharge Against Medical Advice in Teaching Hospitals: A Telephone Survey

Background: Discharge with personal consent is considered as one of the main problems in hospitalization condition since many patients leave the hospital prematurely against the doctor’s advice. Thus, the aim of this study was to identify the factors affecting the discharge with personal satisfaction in selected teaching hospitals of Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Methods: The pr...

Book Review: 'Teaching and Researching Writing (3rd Edition)'

Writing has an overarching significance in our lives. We experience this significance in our personal, professional and social activities. Much of who we are and who we wish to become in our social life, in the professional community we belong to and even in the privacy of our individual life is the outcome of what we write and how we write. We are often judged and evaluated by our control of i...

Book Review: The University Teaching of Social Sciences: Law

Improving quality and safety of telephone based delivery of care: teaching telephone consultation skills.

T he opportunity to consult by telephone is now an integral part of any modern patient centred healthcare system. The public values the option of consulting by telephone, citing advantages of quicker access to care, greater convenience, and more choice in the way health care is received. In the United States up to a quarter of all primary care consultations are now conducted over the telephone,...

Telephone teaching:Towards constructivist teaching for rural and remote students