INTRODUCTION Defensive medicine is a medical practice in which health care providers' primary intent is to avoid criticism and lawsuits, rather than providing for patients' medical needs. The purpose of this study was to characterize medical students' exposure to defensive medicine during medical school rotations. METHODS We performed a cross-sectional survey study of medical students at the ...

PURPOSE We are entering a new era of medicine in which an equal number of men and women are becoming doctors. Many factors combine in complex and poorly understood ways to influence a medical student's career and choice of specialty. This study investigated the preferences of medical students with regard to specialty and examined differences between genders. METHODS We administered a survey t...

OBJECTIVE To describe the history, origin, objectives, characteristics, implications, the questions of the evaluation form and some examples of the Professional Masters (MP), to differentiate the Academic Master, and identify the challenges for the next quadrennial assessment. METHODS The CAPES site on Professional Masters and documents and meeting area of ​​reports from 2004 to 2013 of Medic...

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette Sir,?I have read with interest Colonel Berkeley-Hill's article in the October (1932) issue of the Indian Medical Gazette entitled ' The Place of Psychiatry in the Medical Colleges and Schools in IndiaWith reference to his lines advocating the offering of facilities to students of medicine for the study of the actual cases of mental disorder (vide p. 583...

Although American Family Physician primarily publishes clinical information to help readers in the care of their patients, we occasionally publish articles related to the specialty of family medicine. In this vein, we are happy to announce the publication of the latest edition of an article on questions frequently asked by medical students about family medicine.1 First published more than 30 ye...

The aim of this study was to compare a group of children with high levels of anxiety during dental treatment who required physical restraint (group 1) to a group of children who collaborated with treatment (group 2). Child stress and its relationship with the manifestations of stress of the mothers and the dental students were assessed. The following psychological evaluation techniques were app...

INTRODUCTION Rural background is an acknowledged predictor of later rural medical practice. This study aimed to explore why only small numbers of high school students from rural South Australia seek entry to the University of Adelaide Medical School. METHOD Questionnaires were designed to explore the interest in, knowledge of and attitudes about studying medicine of rural high school students...

Hematological Malignancies Diana Vilar-Compte, MD, MSc; Alejandro Garcia-Horton, MD; Alejandra Pamela Gonzalez-Rodriguez, BSc; Alejandra Solis-Flores, MD; Miguel Garcia-Leon, MSc; Patricia Cornejo-Juarez, MD, MSc; Patricia Volkow, MD; Jose Ignacio Santos-Preciado, MD; Rosa Maria Wong Chew, MD DSc; Infectious Diseases, Instituto Nacional de Cancerología, Mexico City, Mexico; Experimental Medicin...