AS MILLENNIAL LEARNERS enter the medical field, they note a lag in innovation of medical education curricula, compared with peers in other fields. Whereas physician trainees conduct most of their self-directed learning using online and mobile resources, formalized medical education tends to be in lecture format. Most physician trainees use smartphones to query information and use electronic tab...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the importance of both individual and neighbourhood socioeconomic characteristics for health care utilization. METHODS Various linkage procedures generated a longitudinal dataset with information on 2,116 Nova Scotians, their residential neighbourhoods, 8 years of health care utilization and vital status. Unilevel and multilevel regression analyses were employed to e...

A decade ago, sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 24% of the global disease burden but was served by only 4% of the global health workforce. The chronic shortage of medical doctors has led other health professionals especially nurses to perform the role of healthcare providers. These health workers have been variously named clinical officers, health officers, physician assistants, nurse practition...

BACKGROUND The value of ethics education have been questioned. Therefore we did a student survey on attitudes about the teaching of ethics in Swedish medical schools. METHODS Questionnaire survey on attitudes to ethics education with 409 Swedish medical students participating. We analyzed > 8000 words of open-ended responses and multiple-choice questions using classic grounded theory procedur...

BACKGROUND Primary care physicians can enhance the health and quality of life of children with autism by providing high-quality and comprehensive primary care. OBJECTIVE To explore physicians' perspectives on primary care for children with autism. METHODS National mail and e-mail surveys were sent to a random sample of 2325 general pediatricians and 775 family physicians from April 2007 to ...

BACKGROUND Comprehensive discharge education can improve patient understanding and may reduce unnecessary rehospitalization. OBJECTIVES To understand nurse and physician communication practices around patient discharge education. SETTING University of California, San Francisco Medical Center (UCSFMC). PARTICIPANTS Nurses, interns, and hospitalists caring for hospitalized medicine patients...

Background: One of the most important duties of a family physician is primary health care. The family doctor plan is one of the developmental measures to provide easy and low-cost access for patients to health care centers. The family doctor and her team are fully responsible for the health of the individuals and families covered. Therefore, this study was conducted to assess the satisfaction o...

Today's sex eduction is " one of the most devastating things that can possibly happen to any society and it certainly has overwhelmed our society. For over one hundred years, established psychological precepts, which have repeatedly been substantiated by clinical observations, reveal two important facts concerning human sexuality. The first is that life-sustaining human sexual needs can only be...