a Department of Urology, Uonuma Institute of Community Medicine, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Japan b Department of Nephrology, Uonuma Institute of Community Medicine, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Japan c Department of Pathology, Uonuma Institute of Community Medicine, Niigata University Medical and Dental Hospital, Japan d Department of Diagnostic Radiolog...

OBJECTIVES Following the SARS outbreak, large gaps in the public health workforce have been identified. This study sought to understand the perceptions and attitudes of Canadian medical students with regard to public health to determine how this impacted their choice towards a career in Community Medicine (CM). METHODS Five focus groups of 11-12 medical students from all years were recruited ...

BACKGROUND A revolution in health care is occurring as a result of changes in the practice of medicine and in society. Medical education, if it is to keep up with the times, needs to adapt to society's changing attitudes. Presently medical education has been criticised for its orientation and insensitivity to people's need. The MBBS curriculum of medical institutions of Nepal has been focusing ...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Training partnerships between family medicine residencies (FMRs) and community health centers (CHCs) are a potential solution to the chronic problem of health workforce shortages in CHCs. We conducted a national survey to identify the barriers to training family medicine residents in CHCs. METHODS We asked US family medicine residency directors to identify barriers t...

1 Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 2 Department of Epidemiology, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 3 Department of Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of Washington, Seattle, WA. 4 Department of Biostatistics, School of P...

Author’s Affiliation: 1Asst Prof, Dept of Community Medicine, Believers Church Medical College Hospital, Thiruvalla; 2Asso Prof, Dept of Community Medicine, St Johns Medical College Hospital, Bangalore; 3Research Associate, Centre for Ageing Research and Education, Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore; 4Intern; 5Assit Prof; 6Medical Officer, Plantations; 7Professor & Head, Dept of Community Medic...

BACKGROUND Little is known about physicians' adherence to the 2006 Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) recommendation that providers strongly should consider observing vaccine recipients for 15 minutes to prevent injuries from postvaccination syncope. PURPOSE To assess physicians' knowledge, attitudes, and practices toward observing adolescents for 15 minutes postvaccination. ...

The Infectious Diseases Society of Taiwan (IDST) established and issued the first version of “Guidelines on Antimicrobial Therapy of Pneumonia in Taiwan” in December 1999. A revised version was issued in conjunction with the Taiwan Society of Pulmonary and Critical Medicine in 2001. With the advances in many areas of medicine and revisions in the American “Update of Practice Guidelines for the ...