BACKGROUND Considering the controversial results of previous reports on awareness of bill of patients' rights in different regions, as well as the fact that no report is available on the awareness of patients of their rights in teaching hospitals of Sari, we conducted the present study. MATERIALS & METHODS This is a cross-sectional Study conducted in teaching hospitals of Sari in 2011. The st...

OBJECTIVES The aim of this study was to determine the opinions and problems concerning the use of a local antibiotic hospital guideline in a 1900-bed tertiary-care, university teaching hospital. METHODS A qualitative study using focus group discussions explored the usability and applicability of local antibiotic guidelines together with possible supportive measures. The sample included 22 phy...

The Association of Professors of Medicine (APM) is the national organization of departments of internal medicine at the US medical schools and numerous affiliated teaching hospitals as represented by chairs and appointed leaders. As the official sponsor of The American Journal of Medicine, the association invites authors to publish commentaries on issues concerning academic internal medicine. F...

The objectives and goals of Postgraduate medical education in Community Medicine are to produce competent specialists to manage the teaching departments in the Medical colleges, or to manage health services and national health programmes at various levels or to conduct biomedical research in the discipline of community medicine. It is expected that the specialist so trained will be able to mana...

2 Department of Internal Medicine, Charles University in Praha, Faculty of Medicine at Hradec Králové, University Teaching Hospital, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic Institute of Clinical Biochemistry and Diagnostics, Charles University in Praha, Faculty of Medicine at Hradec Králové, University Teaching Hospital, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic Department of Medical Biophysics, Charles University...

In the first part of this project, an expert teaching consultant from McMaster University (Hamilton, Ontario, Canada) was called upon to introduce and promote problem-based learning (PBL) in Physiology and Pathology with a special emphasis on a small group, self-directed approach. The situation for active learning in the two departments and the perception of the faculty and students on problem-...

introduction. one of the most important reasons of failure of traditional medical education in preparing efficient and competent physicians for the real world of practice is using disease-oriented medical education. however patients never tell their diseases to physicians, but mostly they complain their symptoms and the physicians should diagnose the problem and attempt to its treatment. unfort...

BACKGROUND In 2010 the Gezira Family Medicine Project (GFMP) was initiated in Gezira state, Sudan, designed as an in-service training model. The project is a collaboration project between the University of Gezira, which aims to provide a 2-year master's programme in family medicine for practicing doctors, and the Ministry of Health, which facilitates service provision and funds the training pro...