INTRODUCTION The planned modification of the Medical Licenses Act in Germany will strengthen the specialty of general practice. Therefore, medical students should get to know the daily routine of general practitioners during their academic studies. At least 10% of students should get the possibility to spend one quarter of the internship, in the last year of their academic studies, in a practic...

I thank all the people who took part in this study, Brian Tom from the Centre for Applied Medical Statistics at Cambridge University for statistical advice, and Peter Brambleby and Malcolm Adams for their constructive comments. NS is the sole author and acts as guarantor of the study. Funding: NS was supported by a health services research fellowship from the NHS Executive Anglia and Oxford Res...

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Background: Wound healing process includes complex phases. Many studies have highlighted the importance of sterile wound washing in the healing process. Non-sterile wound cleansing could delay its healing and result in heavy costs for the health system. Objectives: The purpose of this study was to assess the efficacy and applicability of a new designed device, Safe Irrigator Syringe, in wound w...

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Aim: To assess whether the medical graduates from one medical school felt “fit for purpose” to work as intern doctors in the Health Service in Ireland. In the early nineties documents like “Tomorrow’s Doctors” emphasised the direction and change that undergraduate medical training had to take. It stated that “students must be properly prepared for their first day as Pre-Registration House Offic...

introduction. practicing medicine needs correct, up to date and easy to use information resources. this study is designed to investigate different aspects of the resources used by internal medicine attending physicians, residents and interns. methods. all attendings (n: 43), residents (n: 23) and interns (n: 33) of internal medicine ward were, after receiving a brief introduction about the aim ...

BACKGROUND South African (SA) paediatric interns (recently qualified medical graduates) work in a high disease burdened and resource deficient environment for two years, prior to independent practice. Perceptions of this learning environment (LE) influences their approaches to training as well as the outcomes of this period of development. Obstacles to creating a supportive LE and supervisor in...