Acknowledgments First of all, I am especially grateful to my supervisor, Stéphane Barland, for the patient guidance, the support and the advices he has provided throughout my thesis. I feel honoured to have worked with such a passionate and brilliant researcher. Second of all, I am keen to thank Giovanna Tissoni, who has supervised the numerical work of this thesis and who has been a good frien...

PURPOSE To assess the feasibility of Direct Observation of Clinical Skills (DOCS), a program for formative assessment of students' clinical skills during a medicine clerkship and to determine relationships between DOCS measures and other clinical performance measures. METHOD From August, 2004 through June, 2005, Medicine Clerks assigned to the primary on-campus clinical site were asked to par...

objective: compulsive or binge eating is a kind of disturbed eating behavior, which is mostly observed among dieting women, and is integrated with appetite disorder, and uncontrolled eating of plenty of junk food. the compulsive eating scale (ces) created first by kagan & squires in 1984, is an eight-item self-reporting instrument that is made to measure the severity of binge eating disorder. t...

the purpose of this study was to determine the effect of a guided family visiting, as an auditory and tactile stimulation, on the consciousness level of comatose head injury patients. a randomized controlled trial design was used. sixty-four comatose head injury patients were randomly allocated into a control group or an intervention group. patients in the intervention group were received audit...