The college English elective courses are courses aiming at the students who pass the cet4 test. The purpose to offer the courses is to improve the students’ practical application level and comprehensive quality from all around. With the help of questionnaire, the paper intends to learn their reflections of the current elective courses and other requirements, the needs of students in course sele...

BACKGROUND: An interprofessional elective using a student-run clinic can introduce students to professional roles, collaborative patient care, and health disparities. METHODS AND FINDINGS: Students from four professions (pharmacy, medicine, physician assistant, and physical therapy) participated in a service-learning elective where they received weekly didactic lectures and provided healthcare...

OBJECTIVE To compare mortality outcomes in the three years after elective colectomy, no colectomy, and emergency colectomy among people admitted to hospital for inflammatory bowel disease, to inform whether the threshold for elective colectomy in clinical practice is appropriate. DESIGN Record linkage studies. SETTING Oxford region (1968-99) and England (1998-2003). PARTICIPANTS 23,464 pe...

PURPOSE The purpose of the current study was to explore among young adults whether celebrity worship predicted the incidence of elective cosmetic surgery within the period of 8 months after controlling for several known predictors of elective cosmetic surgery. METHODS A total of 137 young adults completed questionnaire measures of attitudes toward a celebrity whose body image they admired, pr...

Purpose The purpose of the current study was to explore among young adults whether celebrity worship predicted the incidence of elective cosmetic surgery within the period of eight months after controlling for a number of known predictors of elective cosmetic surgery. Methods 137 young adults completed questionnaire measures of attitudes towards a celebrity whose body image they admired, previo...

BACKGROUND Parotid metastases from cutaneous squamous cell carcinoma (CSCC) are associated with poor prognosis. However, the incidence of occult parotid lymph node metastases in high-risk CSCC is unclear. Therefore, the role of elective parotidectomy is still controversial. The purpose of the present study was to analyze the value of elective parotidectomy in patients with high-risk CSCC. PAT...

Objective. To design and implement an elective course in information mastery and assess its impact on students’ ability to identify information needs and formulate clinically relevant, evidence-based answers. Design. A semester-long (15-week) elective course was offered to third-year (P3) doctor of pharmacy (PharmD) students that outlined the necessary knowledge and skills for using information...

Background: Emergency Caesarean birth in labour has been associated with an increased chance of infection, bleeding (increasing the need of blood transfusion) and Deep Venous Thrombosis when compared with both vaginal birth and elective caesarean birth Objectives: to compare emergency and elective Caesarean section with regard to intra operative and post operative complications in both mother a...

An external elective period is included in the curriculum of most medical schools in the United Kingdom. Of this year’s applicants for elective grants at one school, 97% planned to go abroad; 69% of applicants chose developing countries, the most popular destination being southern Africa. Attention has been drawn to the potential health risks facing elective students (J H Cossar et al, fifth in...

Objective : To evaluate the clinical outcome of emergency and elective operation of splenectomy with periesophagogastric devascularization in treating upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage resulted from portal hypertension. Methods : We retrospectively reviewed 219 patients of upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage resulted from portal hypertension treated using emergency or elective operation between J...