it has long been a common goal for both medical educators and ethicists to develop effective methods or programs for medical ethics education. the current lecture-based courses of medical ethics programs in medical schools are demonstrated as insufficient models for training “good doctors’’. in this study, we introduce an innovative program for medical ethics education in an extra-curricular st...

background: oral contraceptive pills effectiveness is lower in actual use than in clinical trials. the views of a group of married iranian women were sought as a step toward improving the enhanced use of contraceptive pills. methods: two focus groups of current pill users (n=13) and two focus groups of women not currently taking the pills (n=14) were held. leaders trained facilitators; themes w...

Verpleging het uit ’n maatskaplike behoefte aan sorg vir siekes ontstaan. Verskeie groepe en individue het deur die eeue heen ’n verreikende invloed op die ontwikkeling van verpleging gehad en dit uitgebou tot die professie wat ons vandag ken. In die moderne wêreld oefen veral ontwikkeling in tegnologie ’n groot invloed uit — vergelyk byvoorbeeld die toekomstige rol van rekenarisering op gesond...