Endodontic treatment has as its overall goal the long-term retention and restoration of the endodontically treated tooth, including an absence of periapical infection. For this to be achieved, a number of steps and a careful technique are required during instrumentation and irrigation for cleansing and shaping of the canals, and during root canal obturation. Over time, root canal instrumentatio...

Inflammatory diseases share many common traits, including the ability to produce pro-inflammatory messengers called cytokines that travel throughout the body. Cytokines play an important role in physiologic regulation of many biological activities, but in inflammatory diseases, they are produced at levels that can have pathological consequences. In diabetes, cytokines can cause β-cell death and...

Introduction. The curriculum of every program is designed to achieve its goal. The educational objectives are the reflection of the students’ theoretical knowledge and the practical skills they have learnt during this period. The collection, the presentation and the evaluation of the program depend on the educational objectives. The anesthesia educational rotation has been conducted in Shiraz m...

The purpose of this research was to evaluate educational strategies applied to a tele-education leprosy course. The curriculum was for members of the Brazilian Family Health Team and was made available through the Sao Paulo Telehealth Portal. The course educational strategy was based on a constructivist learning model where interactivity was emphasized. Authors assessed motivational aspects of ...

abstract   background and purpose: traditional lecture-based teaching has been long used to transit theoretical knowledge to the participants. due to some problems of this didactic approach, some believe that integration within an active method is more valuable in nursing education. in this study, we hypothesized that integrating lecture-based teaching within clerkship course would enhance nurs...

Background: Pulse Oximeter monitoring has become so common over previous decades that in some health care units, blood oxygen level is now considered as the fifth vital sign. However, it seems there is still some lack of knowledge and/or experience among medical staff operating pulse oximeter and interpreting its results. The aim of this study was to investigate and compare the knowledge on Pul...