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BACKGROUND Scientific publication is a vital mission of medical schools and it is important to periodically document how well schools fulfil this mission. AIMS This study aimed to analyse the publication record of Libyan medical schools in international journals indexed in PubMed between 1988 and 2007. METHODS Medline was searched using PubMed for publications affiliated to Libya during 198...

For mission-critical and safe-critical operations of medical information, financial, or administrative systems, a reliable and robust storage system is indispensable. The main purpose of our research is to develop a high-confidential, reliable, and survivable storage system.

BACKGROUND Interest in alternative and complementary medical practices has grown considerably in recent years. Previous surveys have examined attitudes of the general public and practicing physicians. This study examined the training, experience, and attitudes of medical school faculty, who have the primary responsibility for the education of future family physicians. METHODS A 24-item, self-...

For the realization of the vision and mission of Healthy Indonesia 2015, we need a health service with a broad and comprehensive scope.To provide health services, it can be realized by creating an integrated information system applications such as creating an electronic medical record that has the ability to process and store patient medical data. The specifications used medical record is an op...

Despite their vital contributions to the training of future physicians, many academic teaching hospitals have grown operationally and financially distinct from affiliated medical schools because of divergent missions, contributing to the erosion of clinical training. Some institutions have responded by building hybrid organizations; others by creating large health care networks with variable re...

OBJECTIVE The present status of global mission trips of all of the academic Plastic Surgery programs was surveyed. We aimed to provide information and guidelines for other interested programs on creating a global health elective in compliance with American Board of Plastic Surgery (ABPS) and Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education Residency Review Committee (ACGME/RRC) requirements...

The WMA is a federation of National Medical Associations (NMA) representing over 8 million physicians in >85 countries around the world. It was founded in 1947 with the mission to “serve humanity by endeavoring to achieve the highest international standards in medical education, medical science, medical care, and medical ethics, and health care for all the people of the world”. Despite the enor...

the present article reviews the significance of accreditation standards while emphasizing the necessity of implementation of such standards by basic medical science council, with an eye on such international standards as those published by wfme. this review article had to decide on the key words and expressions, data bases, to review relevant literature, review higher and medical education jour...