PURPOSE One of the many challenges clinicians face is applying growing medical knowledge to specific patients; however, there is an information gap between information needs and delivery. Digital information resources could potentially bridge this gap. Because most medical students are exposed to personal computers throughout their education, this study postulated that students may be more comf...

two random samples, consiting of 100 female and 100 male medical students stydying at medical school of shahid chamran university in ahwaz were administered by beck depression invemtory. male students scored somewhat lower on bdi than the females but the difference was not significant. the same result was true when students enrolled in basic sciences courses and those in clinical courses were c...

background:child health improvement is one of the most important indexes in health programs among all countries. one of the eight millennium development goals for 2015 is reduction of child mortality. based on who recommendation integrated management of childhood illness (imci) is one of the most effective strategies to reduce under five mortality rates. in this study, we tried to compare knowl...

background: today, mobile phone technology has provided an opportunity for teachers and students to improve their continuous teaching/ learning process. the purpose of this study was to determine the effectiveness of learning via mobile phone in the course of clinical pharmacology of medical students at pediatric ward. methods: in this semi-experimental study, 40 medical students at their last ...

OBJECTIVES To identify Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) nasal carriage status among medical students during their clinical rotations. METHODS This cross-sectional study detected the prevalence of MRSA among medical students at King Abdulaziz University (KAU), Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, using molecular approaches. Nasal swabs were collected from 150 internship and sixth-year medic...

OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of a medical school adolescent medicine workshop on knowledge and clinical skills using standardized patients. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING The University of Kentucky College of Medicine, Lexington. PARTICIPANTS A total of 186 third-year medical students. Intervention Medical students assigned to the intervention group (n = 95) participated...

introduction: in medical education, ambulatory medicine education especially emergency is the most important part of medical education. aim of this study is the survey of medial students information needs seeking behavior pattern. we expect this study impacts on the clinical education quality, the recognition of students' education needs and better management of patients by medical students. me...

BACKGROUND The cooperation of patients and their consent to involve medical students in their care is vital to clinical education, but large numbers of students and lack of experience as well as loss of privacy may evoke negative attitudes of patients, which may sometimes adversely affect the clinical teaching environment. This study aimed to explore the attitudes of patients towards medical st...