Medical orthodoxy bas enjoyed a position of dominanc~ in our health care education and delivery system throughout American history. Traditional medicine bas bad the political and financial clout to relegate dissident-challenger groups into sects or cults ·with little societal acceptance. However, amongst these challengers, chiropractic is unique. As a profession, chiropractic has sunived ·and p...

Though Health Sciences education started in the country as far back as 1934, it was only in 1978 that the MBBS course was started. The first postgraduate (PG) course, which was started, was the MD in general practice, which was started in 1982. It is over the course of the last 22 years, and more specifically after 1993, that there has been a spurt in postgraduate (PG) education. The rapid incr...

Background Medical education is intended to prepare graduates for a promoting health and caring for the sick. Medical students are confronted with significant academic, psychological and existential stressors. There is insufficient information regarding psychological morbidity among Nepalese medical students. Objective To determine the prevalence of depression, anxiety and stress, among the med...

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BACKGROUND Anatomy professors world over are lamenting about medical students' lack of interest in dissections and its diminishing utilisation in medical studies. The objective of our study was to find out the reasons why some of the Pakistani medical students were avoiding dissections. METHOD We conducted this study in 5 medical colleges of Pakistan from Dec 2010-Oct 2011. Questionnaires wer...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the adequacy of the undergraduate medical curriculum in Pakistan to address primary healthcare and public health needs of the community at national level. METHODS The cross-sectional study used standardised pilot-tested instruments from January 12 to July 14, 2010. Stratified purposive sampling technique was employed to include public and private-sector medical colleg...