BACKGROUND The scientific evidence of a beneficial effect of physicians in prehospital treatment is scarce. The objective of this systematic review of controlled studies was to examine whether physicians, as opposed to paramedical personnel, increase patient survival in prehospital treatment and if so, to identify the patient groups that gain benefit. METHODS A systematic review of studies pu...

Pain management in severely brain-damaged patients constitutes a clinical and ethical stake. At the bedside, assessing the presence of pain and suffering is challenging due to both patients' physical condition and inherent limitations of clinical assessment. Neuroimaging studies support the existence of distinct cerebral responses to noxious stimulation in brain death, vegetative state, and min...

introduction. developing a course plan is a main part of every teacher preparation for teaching of each subject and can help him /her teach better and move effectively. this research was conducted to evaluate course plan status of faculty staff of shahid sadoughi university of yazd. methods. this assay was performed on theoretical course plan of all faculty staff of the selected faculties of me...

background: the counselors are responsible for academic counseling to students and help them to solve their educational problems. the aim of the present study was to determine the viewpoints of students about the status of academic counseling provided by the faculty advisers in four schools at university of medical sciences. methods: in this cross-sectional study, the opinions of 244 students a...

Publishing scholarly articles in traditional and newly-launched journals is a responsible task, requiring diligence from authors, reviewers, editors, and publishers. The current generation of scientific authors has ample opportunities for publicizing their research. However, they have to selectively target journals and publish in compliance with the established norms of publishing ethics. Over ...

We agree with Dupoux and Jacob (DJ) [1] that human moral capacities are, in ways yet to be understood, grounded in our biology. However, we disagree with DJ’s outright rejection of the linguistic analogy (LA). Fully cognizant that our present understanding of the moral faculty is no better, and perhaps is worse, than the state of affairs in linguistics circa 1950, we believe that it has opened ...

BACKGROUND Emotional intelligence (EI) has recently been considered as one of the necessary elements for success and achievement in medical fields. The present study was conducted in Iran to compare the EI in medical and non-medical students adjusted for the other relevant factors. METHODS This cross-sectional study was conducted from October 2011 to January 2012 on 872 students of medicine, ...

There has been recently yet another account of a physical assault by a patient towards a doctor 1 . The scenario is a familiar one, a drunken male in the emergency department with a minor injury. A tirade of verbal abuse and racist slurs was followed by physical violence against the doctor. The account highlights a problem that we have lived with for a long time. One of the most difficult situa...