The scope of this study is to identify contributions and limits of teaching-service integration between the School of Medicine of Marília and the Municipal Health Department of Marília for academia, for the health teams and for the community. The study involved cross-sectional research using a quantitative approach. A questionnaire with 20 affirmations structured around a Likert scale was appli...

Background: Community-oriented primary care (COPC) is a systematic approach to health care based upon principles derived from epidemiology, primary care, preventive medicine, and health promotion. We describe the development of COPC from an historical perspective. A critical assessment of current trends and implication for physician education and practice of COPC will be discussed in a companio...

To encourage high-quality patient care guided by the best evidence, many medical schools and residencies are teaching techniques for critically evaluating the medical literature. While a large step forward, these skills of evidence-based medicine are necessary but not sufficient for the practice of contemporary medicine. Incorporating the best evidence into the real world of busy clinical pract...

INTRODUCTION The teaching of evidence-based medicine (EBM) has now been incorporated as an integral part of medical curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine, Ramathibodi Hospital but there is little research into the effectiveness of the course. The purpose of this report is to evaluate the EBM skills of medical students and competency of the faculty member. MATERIALS AND METHODS The EBM course ...

Veterinary public health (VPH) is not integrated into the mainstream of public health services in Africa. There are no formal mechanisms within government public health services through which veterinary skills and resources can be effectively harnessed to bear upon community health. There is no conscious, overt or substantial effort by public authorities to incorporate VPH services in the overa...

Since Hippocrates’ axiom in 370 BC, “Thy food shall be thy medicine”, the relationship between food, health and quality of life has been a concern of the scientific health care community. Of course, the boundary between medical (therapeutic) and normal nutrition changes regularly, with many opinions articulated in both the scientific community and the general population. Opinions vary from evid...