background: every year a number of iran’s faculty members in medical science universities got promoted to a higher scientific rank with respect to their history of administrative and scientific services and research and educational activities. one of the faculty promotion criteria is assessing the quality of their educational activities which encompass four areas (training, professional and soc...

BACKGROUND The internet is a relatively new medium of disseminating health information. Studies on Internet usage for health information are mainly done in developed countries and very few studies have been carried out in developing countries. METHODS The Internet usage of patients who were attending specialist clinics in Teaching Hospital Karapitiya and Southern Hospital in Galle, Sri Lanka ...

BACKGROUND The inverse association between education and mortality has grown stronger the last decades in many countries. During the same period, gains in life expectancy have been concentrated to older ages; still, old-age mortality is seldom the focus of attention when analyzing trends in the education-mortality gradient. It is further unknown if increased educational inequalities in mortalit...

INTRODUCTION Increased numbers of rural hospital rotations for interns (first postgraduate year) are being created in Western Australia (WA). This study utilised the Postgraduate Hospital Educational Environment Measure (PHEEM), an internationally validated multidimensional questionnaire, to assess and compare the educational environment of five new or established rural sites and an urban teach...

BACKGROUND The optimal structure of an internal medicine ward team at a teaching hospital is unknown. We hypothesized that increasing the ratio of attendings to housestaff would result in an enhanced perceived educational experience for residents. METHODS Harbor-UCLA Medical Center (HUMC) is a tertiary care, public hospital in Los Angeles County. Standard ward teams at HUMC, with a housestaff...

Down Syndrome Parents' Support Group Siriraj Hospital was established on February 14, 1993. It consists of a group of pediatricians, nurses, parents of children with Down Syndrome (DS) who received care at the Genetics Clinic, Division of Medical Genetics, Department of Pediatrics, Faculty of Medicine Siriraj Hospital. The objective is to educate parents with DS children whose diagnosis of DS g...

BACKGROUND Massage therapy is offered increasingly in US medical facilities. Although the United States has many massage schools, their education differs, along with licensure and standards. As massage therapy in hospitals expands and proves its value, massage therapists need increased training and skills in working with patients who have various complex medical concerns, to provide safe and ef...

The advantages and disadvantages of a private college's affiliation with a freestanding university program are examined. While there are educational advantages in the classroom, students do not receive optimal clinical education unless hospital sites are part of the university.

OBJECTIVES Our primary aim of this pilot study was to test feasibility of the planned design, the interventions (education plus telephone coaching), and the outcome measures, and to facilitate a power calculation for a future randomized controlled trial to improve adherence to recovery goals following hip fracture. DESIGN This is a parallel 1:1 randomized controlled feasibility study. SETTI...