INTRODUCTION Dental caries today, regardless of known multi causal etiology of the disease and the possibility of its effective prevention still represents the most widespread disease of our civilization, which affects about 95% of our population. It affects all populations and age groups and is a disease that is very difficult to completely eradicate due to a complex interaction of biological ...

INTRODUCTION A study was done between December 2005 and January 2006 to determine the prevalence of emotional disorders among medical students in a private medical school in Ipoh, Perak, Malaysia and to determine the demographical characteristics, contributing factors and the key person consulted for emotional problems. METHODS Medical students in the private medical school completed the 12-i...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Gaps in medical school education exist for the leading preventable cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States--cigarette smoking. This report is on an innovative medical student curriculum of smoking cessation with a high-stakes required performance assessment during a third-year clerkship in family medicine addressing the following questions: (1) Can medica...

OBJECTIVES To determine the prevalence of mild hearing loss and its association with academic performance among primary school children. PATIENTS AND METHODS A comparative cross sectional study was conducted on standard (grade) five school children in a state in Malaysia. Five schools were selected by using simple random sampling. There were three classes (A, B and C) of standard five in each...

PURPOSE It aims to identify the effect of five variables to score of the Korean Medical Licensing Examinations (KMLE) for three consecutive years from 2011 to 2013. METHODS The number of examinees for each examination was 3,364 in 2011 3,177 in 2012, and 3,287 in 2013. Five characteristics of examinees were set as variables: gender, age, graduation status, written test result (pass or fail), ...

We assumed that self-control capacity, self-efficacy, and self-esteem would enable students to keep attentional control during tests. Therefore, we hypothesized that the three personality traits would be negatively related to anxiety-impaired cognition during math examinations. Secondary school students (N = 158) completed measures of self-control capacity, self-efficacy, and self-esteem at the...

The Royal Colleges of Physicians of the United Kingdom have a common membership examination in general medicine and successful candidates are eligible for the award of the MRCP (UK) Diploma1. This important postgraduate qualification is achieved after passing three separate examinations typically known as MRCP Part 1, MRCP Part 2 and MRCP PACES. Attaining the MRCP (UK) Diploma or “full membersh...