BACKGROUND Choosing a medical specialty requires medical students to match their interests and social-cultural situations with their perceptions of the various specialties. OBJECTIVES Examine Israeli 6th-year medical students' perceptions of six key specialties: pediatrics, orthopedic surgery, anesthesiology, obstetrics/gynecology, general surgery and family medicine. METHODS Questionnaires...

OBJECTIVE To survey the use of declarations of ethical commitment made by graduating medical students in Australia and New Zealand. METHODS Information, obtained by email and telephone, from faculty officers of all faculties of medicine (or medicine and health sciences) in Australia and New Zealand. RESULTS Declarations are made by graduating medical students at seven of 12 Australasian fac...

background:     purpose:     methods:     results:     conclusion:     key words:     ict, esp, medical students , methodology instruction based on ict specialized articles is a more effective method for teaching esp to the students of medicine linguistically and methodologically. the students achieved better results with internet-based medical english articles, compared to the traditional text...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Medical students have had a declining interest in family medicine as a career. Some studies have shown a small inverse relationship between debt levels and primary care, but it is unclear how students perceive remuneration in different specialties and how these perceptions might influence career choice. METHODS Medical students at one school were surveyed to understa...

OBJECTIVE to identify the students' perception about the quality of clinical placements and asses the influence of the different tutoring processes in clinical learning. METHODS analytical cross-sectional study on second and third year nursing students (n=122) about clinical learning in primary health care. The Clinical Placement Evaluation Tool and a synthetic index of attitudes and skills w...

INTRODUCTON In the USA, area health education centers (AHECs) work to recruit and educate students to serve in medically underserved communities, primary care, and rural settings. One important aspect of their work is connecting students with rural clinical experiences. Within these experiences, AHECs incorporate a community health/socioeconomic experience within the family medicine clerkship t...

BACKGROUND The importance of communication between patients and physicians has been proven in many previous studies. The authors analyzed the effect of interview skill education through videotapes which recorded students' interviews with real patients in the outpatient department of family medicine. METHODS This study was conducted with all students who chose the elective course of family med...

In 2014, students beginning the first semester of Faculty of Medicine, University of Belgrade were given on-line course on Applications of information and communication technologies in medicine. As a part of the tutorials, the students were asked to complete a questionnaire which included questions related to knowledge, use and attitudes towards ICT. For items related to students attitudes towa...