Zhamak Khorgami

Surgery Department, Shariati Hospital, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.

[ 1 ] - Using 360-degree multi-source feedback to evaluate professionalism in surgery departments: An Iranian perspective

Background: Medical professionalism helps physicians adopt a proper and good healing action for the patients based on their particular circumstance. This study was conducted to assess professionalism in surgical residents, using a 360-degree evaluation technique in several teaching hospitals in Tehran, Iran. Methods: This study was conducted on all the second and third year surgery residents...

[ 2 ] - Prophylactic gastrectomy in familial gastric cancer: case report and review of literature

  Absract   Gastric cancer is the fourth most common cancer and the second leading cause of   cancer death. Most cases are sporadic and only 10% of patients, show familial clustering. Among these patients, 1 to 3 % have hereditary diffuse gastric cancer   (HDGC), which is autosomal-dominant and present in younger ages. Mutations in Ecadherin gene CDH1 has been identified in 30 to 50% of patient...