purpose:     methods:     results:     conclusion:     our study suggests that using mpcd method is an effective way to increase clinical reasoning skills of medical students. the attitude of students about the positive effects of mpcd increased significantly from the first day to the last day (p intervention. 120 third-year medical students at our medical university were randomly assigned to 1...

One important factor that can cause of dizziness is benign paroxys mal positional vertigo (BPPV); this increases in prevalence with age. The aim of this clinical study was to determine whether the Deep Head Hanging maneuver is an efficacious treatment maneuver for anterior canalithiasis. Twenty-eight adult participants were recruited. Their ages ranged from 41–63 years. Thrteen participants wer...

Excavations at two sites dating from 2000 BC-1900 AD in southeastern areas of the Republic of Korea, revealed the remains of several structures. Examination of the contents suspected privies revealed the presence of eggs from 5 kinds of parasite: Ascaris, Trichuris, Clonorchis, and two species of unknown trematodes. Clonorchis sinensis eggs were found in a soil dating from around AD 668-935. Th...

BACKGROUND Safe and effective prescription writing, using drug formularies, and managing pharmaceutical care are skills medical students need to acquire. Spurred by the Undergraduate Medical Education for the 21st Century (UME-21) grants, the University of Wisconsin and the University of Nebraska independently developed educational workshops to address these competencies. METHODS The Universi...

Graphics Processing Unit, or GPUs, have been successfully adopted both for graphic computation in 3D applications, and for general purpose application (GP-GPUs), thank to their tremendous performance-per-watt. Recently, there is a big interest in adopting them also within automotive and avionic industrial settings, imposing for the first time real-time constraints on the design of such devices....