1 2nd Department of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine at Hradec Kralove, Charles University in Praha, University Teaching Hospital, Sokolska 581, 500 05 Hradec Kralove, Czech Republic 2 Clinique des Maladies Intestinales et du Support Nutritionnel, Service de Gastroentérologie, Hôpital Erasme, Route de Lennik 808, 1070 Brussels, Belgium 3Department of Gastroenterology, VU University Medical Center,...

Cortisol: Implications for the Low-Dose Short Adrenocorticotropic Hormone Stimulation Test, Suhail A.R. Doi, Ibrahim Lasheen, Khaldoon Al-Humood, and Kamal A.S. Al-Shoumer (Divisions of 1 Endocrinology and 2 Medicine, Mubarak Al Kabeer Teaching Hospital, Jabriya, Kuwait; * address correspondence to this author at: Division of Endocrinology, Mubarak Al Kabeer Teaching Hospital, PO Box 64849 Shuw...

Olajide O Agbede1, Juliet O Iseniyi2, Matthew O Kolawole3† & A Ojuawo4 †Author for correspondence 1Department of Medical Microbiology and Parasitology, University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria 2Department of Haematology, University of Ilorin Teaching Hospital, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria 3Department of Microbiology, University of Ilorin, PMB 1515, Ilorin, Kwara State, Nigeria Tel.: +23 408 0...

This study explored the relationship between self-esteem, achievement motivation and perceived sense of competence among workers in a Nigerian university teaching hospital. Using a correlational design, one hundred and seventy (n=170) workers selected from different sections and clinics at a University teaching hospital in a south western state in Nigeria participated in the study. They compris...

background and objectives: pharmacovigilance is central to the control of the menace of adverse drugs reactions. despite the fact that development of policy and practice framework to improve patients’ safety partly rely on availability of authentic data on pharmacovigilance activities, knowledge about pharmacovigilance activities among healthcare professionals in nigeria is limited. to help fil...

BACKGROUND Residents and interns are recognized as important clinical teachers and mentors. Resident-as-teacher training programs are known to improve resident attitudes and perceptions toward teaching, as well as their theoretical knowledge, skills, and teaching behavior. The effect of resident-as-teacher programs on learning outcomes of medical students, however, remains unknown. An intervent...

OBJECTIVE To determine the feedback of postgraduate (PG) trainees on their current teaching methods and their level of satisfaction with those at a tertiary care hospital in Pakistan. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Surgery, Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, from January to May 2010. METHODOLOGY A semi-structured proforma was filled by the trai...

Odontogenic tumors: A review of 319 cases in a Nigerian teaching hospital Akinola Ladipo Ladeinde, BDS, FMCDS, FWACS, Oluseyi Folake Ajayi, BDS, FMCDS, Mobolanle Olugbemiga Ogunlewe, BDS, FWACS, Wasiu Lanre Adeyemo, BDS, FMCDS, Godwin Toyin Arotiba, BDS, FMCDS, FWACS, FDSRCS, Babatunde Olamide Bamgbose, BDS, FMCDS, and Jelili Adisa Akinwande, BDS, FMCDS, FWACS, Lagos, Nigeria UNIVERSITY OF LAGO...

AIMS To determine if a teaching intervention on hazardous drinking could improve the knowledge, attitudes and clinical behaviour of Health Professionals (HP) in a hospital. METHODS Changes were assessed at baseline and 1 month after the intervention through questionnaires delivered to 38 professionals and interviews with patients (N = 240). RESULTS Knowledge of professionals improved. No ch...

INTRODUCTION: Diabetes imposes a considerable demand on adolescents and their families as they are coping (refers to habitual ways of approaching problems) with normal developmental challenges and burden of diabetes 1,2 . Patients with poor psychosocial functioning (depressed mood, failure to develop social competence, feeling of inadequacy, social withdrawal and aggression) have poor glycaemic...