OBJECTIVE To evaluate the perspectives of medical students and patients on bedside teaching (BST). METHODS A cross-sectional study was undertaken to elicit patients and learners opinions on BST in Hazrat Rasool Hospital, a university teaching hospital in Tehran, Iran. From June 2008 to September 2008, 100 fourth-year medical students and 100 adult patients admitted to the general medical serv...

This paper describes an ongoing research. We are building a chatterbot for education, in Portuguese, which uses conceptual lattices to generate answers for the students. We automatically build conceptual lattices from instructional materials about Artificial Intelligence. In this paper we describe how the lattices are generated for chatbot system. Resumo. Este artigo descreve uma pesquisa em an...

1 Cardiovascular Center, Department of Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Estados Unidos Correspondência para: Mazen Albaghdadi, MD, Research Fellow, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, 1216 Medical Education Research Facility, Iowa City, IA, USA – 52242-2600 – E-mail: [email protected] Recebido: 27/8/2007 Aceito: 25/9/2007 ABS...

1 MD, General Clinical Research Center and Department of Internal Medicine, Carver College of Medicine, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa. Correspondência para: Marcelo Correia, MSc, MD, PhD, Department of Clinical Medicine. State University of Rio de Janeiro. Av. Lineu de Paula Machado, 850 – 22470-040 – Rio de Janeiro, RJ. E-mail: [email protected] Recebido: 5/5/2008 Aceito: 28/5/20...

1 Department of Radiology Technology, Faculty of Para-medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 2 Department of Radiology, Faculty of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 3 Department of Medical Physics, Faculty of Medicine, Hamadan University of Medical Sciences, Hamadan, Iran 4 Department of radiology, Besat Hospital, Hamadan University of Medi...

introduction: one of the objectives of the social medicine education is to train health workers who can manage the changing needs of the society. (zoladi et al. 1377). modern medicine mainly cares for the welfare of the society but it can not account for the treatment of the chronic diseases such as tuberculosis, typhoid fever, malaria, etc (pejvak periodical. 1378). social medicine acts as a g...

background: inadequate attention to management and institutional reforms is an important barrier to achieving universal health coverage. skilled and motivated public health managers in adequate numbers are an important requirement to overcome this hurdle. however, what are the career choices of medical students? are they interested in community medicine and public health? to document the career...

The applicant-to-acceptance ratio in the nation's 127 medical schools has slowly but steadily declined during the last decade to 1.7:1 (60.5% acceptance rate) for the 1987-1988 academic year. The 28,123 applicants in this academic year represent a decrease of 3200 applicants from the previous year. The decline in the number of applicants is even more striking because it occurred despite the wel...

Background: This study investigates medical students’ level of satisfaction with the effectiveness of PBL and Skills Lab training. It also seeks students’ opinions on the duration of the Phase I Programme and whether the pre and para clinical courses appropriately prepare them for ward-readiness. Method: An anonymous questionnaire was administered to 4th and 5th year medical students seeking th...