Objective: To assess the occupational hazard of unscavenged waste anesthetic gases on reproductive health (infertility, abortions, preterm delivery and congenital anomalies) in personnel working in operating rooms. Methods: The study was conducted by a questionnaire-based survey of 99 operating room personnel and 118 non exposed personnel from the general wards in Omdurman Military Hospital, Om...

Introduction: Teaching Qualifications (TQs) have been implemented in University Medical Centers, but their relation to teachers’ motivation for medical teaching is unknown. Because teacher motivation influences important outcomes, it is crucial to study how TQs are related to promoting teacher motivation, by fulfilling the basic needs of feeling autonomous, competent, and related towards medica...

Clinical observations during the past decades led us to the early empirical assumptions that adult patients affected by certain types of allergic manifestations may have a lower prevalence of malignant tumors. In order to test those observations as well as some contradictory reports (1-3), we conducted a retrospective study using 32 years of records and statistics of a medium-sized hospital (42...

BACKGROUND Neurophobia is the fear of neurosciences held by medical students and doctors. The present study aims to identify whether Neurology is considered a difficult subject by medical students and non-specialist doctors from Sri Lanka and evaluate reasons for such perceived difficulties. METHODS The study was conducted from May-June 2008. One hundred non-specialist doctors from the Colomb...

An increase in the number of medical students in Israel has resulted in a relative shortage of clinical teaching sites, a problem being faced in many jurisdictions around the world. It has been shown that the rural setting is adequate for teaching internal medicine. Yoseftal Hospital (YH), a rural community hospital with 25 beds for medicine was chosen as a site for the internal medicine core c...