BACKGROUND Women and minorities remain underrepresented in orthopaedic surgery. In an attempt to increase the diversity of those entering the physician workforce, Nth Dimensions implemented a targeted pipeline curriculum that includes the Orthopaedic Summer Internship Program. The program exposes medical students to the specialty of orthopaedic surgery and equips students to be competitive appl...

Trials of the HIV-1 vaccine have been conducted in Europe, North America, Brazil, China, and Thailand. The first trial of a candidate vaccine in Africa was recently completed in Uganda. It involved a randomised, placebo controlled trial of a vaccine in healthy volunteers at low risk of HIV infection. 3 The vaccine, called “ALVAC-HIV,” uses a live recombinant canarypox vector to express envelope...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To determine whether research-based recommendations can be made about the clinical management of depression in patients with cancer. DATA SOURCES Reports of scientific studies, qualitative or quantitative systematic reviews of scientific studies, and practice guidelines published from 1980-2000. DATA SYNTHESIS In all, 36 pieces of evidence supported the conclusion that ps...

Counseling psychology is committed to helping people meet the challenges and solve the problems they encounter in daily routines and in stressful circumstances. To a great extent, this holds true for other professional psychology specialties (including clinical, educational and health psychology) as clients usually seek professional assistance in solving the problems they face. Thus, the study ...

This article reviews the potential for combining cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) and client-centred counselling (CCC) in nurse education and practice. Currently, CBT and CCC are practiced independently of one another within mental health care. This project attempted to bring together the unique qualities of each intervention while encouraging a synergistic approach. This was undertaken by d...

Tom Dummer is an English osteopath who compares Tibetan medicine with such Western alternative systems as Western herbalism, homeopathy, and osteopathy. The first part of the book, however, is taken up by the Buddhist view of the body in relation to the universe, Buddhist cosmology, Tantric physiology, and Buddhist psychological counselling. Here the ancient teachings are evaluated from the mod...

In this article, the authors introduce the virtual dream, a technique that entails writing a brief spontaneous dreamlike story on themes of loss, using a flexible set of assigned elements of setting and characterization to scaffold the writing. After providing several examples of virtual dreams written by workshop participants, the authors analyze the frequency of important narrative features i...

INTRODUCTION The behaviour of parents in ensuring car passenger safety for their children is associated with socio-economic (SE) status of the family; however, the influence of parental education has rarely been researched and the findings are contradictory. The aim of the study was to clarify whether parental education influences the use of a child car seat during short rides. METHODS A cros...