Background: Teachers’ self-efficacy and development may be conceptualized as their beliefs in their own ability to plan, organize and carry out activities that are required to attain educational goals. In this study, we examined the effect of different medical education training courses (six-day, one- month short- term and six-month long- term courses) on perceived self-effica...

We read with interest the article by Velayutham and colleagues, reporting on shorter regimens for newly diagnosed pulmonary tuberculosis [1]. Shortening duration of treatment is an unmet research need [2]. In this regard, trial et al. commendable. Nevertheless, it has certain limitations. While authors claim that regimen a high cure rate acceptable recurrence rate, we have two main concerns reg...