Aim: To evaluate the effectiveness of radiation protection training among medical students using X-ray equipment.

Performance and reliability of medical X-ray sources for imaging humans are crucial from ethical, clinical and economic perspectives. This overview will treat the aspects to consider for investment of equipment for medical X-ray imaging. Recent X-ray tubes deliver enhanced reliability and unprecedented performance. But, metric for benchmarking has to change. Modern terms for product comparison ...

background : studies have shown a gradual decline in empathy of medical trainees with increasing years of education. methods to augment empathy show some promise, but the most effective methods are both expensive and time consuming.to assess effectiveness of communication skills training program as a distant learning method in improving empathy.   method s: fourteen first year residents of psyc...

During World War I, when it became increasingly difficult for physicians in many European countries to have their defective X-ray tubes repaired or replaced, since most of these tubes were produced by German-based companies, Dutch physicians made an urgent request to Philips, asking the company if they could repair their X-ray tubes. Because Philips had the necessary expertise in glass and vacu...

background: behavioral risk factors are responsible for a substantial portion of chronic disease. educating patients is a professional responsibility of medical practitioners. however, it has been observed that physicians did not practice what they preach. we aimed to study whether medical colleges inculcate health‑promoting lifestyle among medical students during their stay in medical colleges...

PURPOSE Two main generational cohorts comprising students enrolled in medical schools today are Generation Xers (born 1965-1980) and Millennial students (born 1981-1999). A subset is Cuspars (born 1975-1980), who share traits with both generations. Population theorists ascribe different personal characteristics, attitudes, and preferences to each group. The authors examined whether selected cha...

medical imaging has a remarkable role in the practice of clinical medicine. this study intends to evaluate the knowledge of indications of five common medical imaging modalities and estimation of the imposed cost of their non-indicated requests among medical students who attend shiraz university of medical sciences, shiraz, iran. we conducted across-sectional survey using a self-administered qu...