to study the prevalence of low back pain in medical and nursing undergraduate students in our institutes and its association with physical activity, smoking, depression, use of computer and other variables.it was a comparative cross sectional study carried out at two institutes of dow university of health sciences, karachi, pakistan during october to december 2011. two hundred and fifteen under...

to present a multiple-instructor, active-learning strategy in the undergraduate medical curriculum. this educational research is a descriptive one. shared teaching sessions, were designed for undergraduate medical students in six organ-system based courses. sessions that involved in-class discussions of integrated clinical cases were designed implemented and moderated by at least 3 faculties (c...

background: sufficient and thorough knowledge in early recognition of symptoms and proper management of asd is of utmost importance to medical graduates in the initial years of their learning in medical school. their knowledge regarding asd will be helpful when they become health care professionals as it will be easy for proper management of asd. our aim is to evaluate and analyze medical under...

BACKGROUND In most medical schools, graduate students, sometimes referred to as graduate teaching assistants, often participate in the training of undergraduate students. In developing countries like Uganda, are typically involved in undergraduate training. However, prior to this study there were no standard guidelines for this involvement. At the same time, the views and experiences of the gra...

OBJECTIVES To obtain medical students' evaluation of the quality of undergraduate radiology teaching received, preferred teaching methods and resources. This is a follow-up project to an earlier study of junior doctors who felt that radiology teaching left them ill prepared for medical practice. METHODS A questionnaire to third and fifth year medical students undertaking clinical rotations at...

OBJECTIVES To determine the extent to which undergraduate medical students experience (and/or witness) bullying and harassment during their first year on full-time placements and to compare with new General Medical Council (GMC) evidence on bullying and harassment of doctors in training. SETTING A UK university offering medical and nursing undergraduate programmes. PARTICIPANTS 309 medical ...

OBJECTIVE To compare learning styles of undergraduate and postgraduate medical students. STUDY DESIGN Observational, comparative study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Department of Medical Education, Army Medical College, NUST, Rawalpindi, Pakistan, during February and March 2012. METHODOLOGY A total of 170 students were divided into two equal groups of undergraduate students of Army Medical...

background: research at undergraduate and graduate level is important in deciding career fields and future profession. the undergraduate studies are greatly enriched by doing research work. this study assess research trends among medical students by evaluating their research career choices, factors influencing their research career preferences and future plans at jinnah sind medical university ...