BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Direct observation (DO) is considered to be an effective way to evaluate patient care. This study assesses if weekly direct observation with formal feedback (DO-FF) increases (1) clinical skills and (2) comfort with patient care skills (CWPCS) during the first 12 weeks of internship. METHODS A single-blinded, stratified, randomized controlled trial (RCT) with allocat...

BACKGROUND This prospective study compares the use of interactive multimedia eBooks (IME) with traditional PowerPoint (TPP) for teaching cell morphology of blood and bone marrow. METHODS Fifty-one interns from three Taiwan medical schools training by a single teacher in the pediatric hematology department of Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan, participated in this study. 25 intern...

BACKGROUND The medical internship as a way of exposing young doctors to training in a rural context is regarded as a useful tool to recruit and retain doctors in rural areas. Norwegian health authorities tested an arrangement of early sign-up for medical internships in the Finnmark County in Norway. OBJECTIVE To report on the effects of the early sign-up for medical internship. DESIGN This ...

Background: Prosthesis choices on impression techniques for patients associated with flabby ridges may be varies from one another. .The intern’s feedback is evaluated to investigate influence for the choice of impression techniques for flabby ridges .This review article presents various techniques that can be used for making impression in flabby ridge areas especially for edentulous patients. A...

background and purpose: the importance of training basic and advanced life support for undergraduates and graduated physicians are now widely recognized. graduates of medical schools in iran immediately get license to practice medicine without any supervision. therefore, clarification of the best phases for training cpr and the optimum mastery level in each phase is very important. this study i...

BACKGROUND Internship training offers an important opportunity for personal development and career planning. However, there are many factors affecting the efficiency of training, and the views of interns are rarely considered. The main objective of this study was to explore the views of interns enrolled in Jazan University internship program during the year 2015. SUBJECTS AND METHODS A web-ba...

INTRODUCTION Many doctors are leaving Nepal to work abroad. To understand this problem better, we decided to study the attitude and plans of young doctors and medical students. MATERIALS AND METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted at Kathmandu Medical College involving 65 first year medical students, 100 interns and 100 house officers. The data collected was entered in Microsoft exce...

aim: education is a service, which is influenced by the provider. nowadays, there are a lotof challenges in health care systems, which requires a proper preparation to meet them.medical interns are one of the future components of health care system, who should beprepared very well to meet these challenges. we preformed this survey to assess themedical interns’ satisfaction in shahid beheshti un...

CONTEXT Attitude of fresh graduates toward psychiatric patients is important to bridge the treatment gap due to mental illness. Psychiatry as a subject has been neglected in the undergraduates of MBBS. AIMS (1) To compare the attitude of medical students and interns in a medical college toward mental illness and psychiatry. (2) To assess the impact of psychiatric training on attitude toward t...