Writing your research paper well is the first stage to increase readership and popularising your research. The key questions to deal with while writing your paper is to not only to clearly think and state the message you intend to convey (what are you trying to say?) but also to keep in mind whom you are trying to convey this message to (who is your audience?). A well written paper based on spe...

Medical voluntourism involves medically untrained individuals travelling to a community abroad to set up health education workshops, complete observational work or even basic clinical tasks. Often, these volunteers are students who are applying to medical school and are seeking an international clinical experience. Although the ethics of global-short-term medical outreach by medical school stud...

s with numbers that do not begin with the letter designation S were submitted through the AOA Research Conference and were thus published in the August 2010 issue of the JAOA along EDITORIAL Student Abstracts and Poster Competitions: Encouraging Research Joseph K. Prinsen, OMS VI Joseph K. Prinsen is the National Research Director for the Student Osteopathic Medical Association, a member of the...

Address correspondence to Alfred Z. Abuhamad, MD, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Division of Maternal-Fetal Medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, 825 Fairfax Ave, Room 310, Norfolk, VA 23507-1912 USA. E-mail: [email protected] larming rates of maternal and infant mortality exist in the developing world, with no significant improvement over the past decade. Obstetric ultrasound ma...

BACKGROUND Outreach has been endorsed as an important global strategy to promote universal access to health care but it depends on health workers who are willing to travel. In Australia, rural outreach is commonly provided by specialist doctors who periodically visit the same community over time. However information about the level of participation and the distribution of these services nationa...

BACKGROUND Specialist outreach clinics in general practice, in which hospital-based specialists hold outpatient clinics in general practitioners' (GPs) surgeries, are one example of a shift in services from secondary to primary care. AIM To describe specialist outreach clinics held in fundholding general practices in two specialties from the perspective of patients, GPs, and consultants, and ...

Strategies used by outreach workers to successfully enroll underserved and uninsured California children into low cost health insurance programs such as MediCal and Healthy Families are examined. Outreach workers are particularly effective in enrolling and retaining hard to reach populations, especially immigrant families, in health programs. Skilled in grassroots communications and members of ...

The federal government has established rapid identification, linkage, and engagement in medical care of HIV-positive individuals as a high priority. Outreach workers and other linkage coordinators are identified as key personnel in implementing this policy. Young racial/ethnic minority men who have sex with men (MSM) have relatively high and growing rates of HIV infection and would benefit from...

The World Health Organization has endorsed the use of outreach to promote: efficient redeployment of the health-care workforce; continuity of care at the local level; and professional support for local, rural, health-care workers. Australia is the only country that has had, since 2000, a sustained national policy on outreach for subsidizing medical specialist outreach to rural areas. This paper...