BACKGROUND Physician-scientists play key roles in biomedical research across the globe, yet prior studies have found that it is increasingly difficult to recruit and retain physician-scientists in research careers. Access to quality research mentorship may help to ameliorate this problem in the U.S., but there is virtually no information on mentoring in academic medicine in Japan. We conducted ...

Training neural network acoustic models with sequencediscriminative criteria, such as state-level minimum Bayes risk (sMBR), been shown to produce large improvements in performance over cross-entropy. However, because they entail the processing of lattices, sequence criteria are much more computationally intensive than cross-entropy. We describe a distributed neural network training algorithm, ...

OBJECTIVES To elaborate the impact of family planning training on general practitioners' knowledge, attitude and practices regarding emergency contraception. METHODS A cross sectional survey involving 270 general practitioners was conducted in Hyderabad from 1(st) Oct to 31(st) Dec 2010. Participants were divided into two groups on the basis of attending family planning training course after ...

BACKGROUND Standardization of the dietetic care process allows for early identification of malnutrition and metabolic disorders, interdisciplinary collaboration among the medical team, and improved quality of patient care. Globally, dietitians are adopting a nutrition care model that integrates national regulations with professional scope of practice. Currently, Israel lacks a standardized diet...

BACKGROUND Malaria case management is a key strategy for malaria control. Effective coverage of parasite-based malaria diagnosis (PMD) remains limited in malaria endemic countries. This study assessed the health system's capacity to absorb PMD at primary health care facilities in Uganda. METHODS In a cross sectional survey, using multi-stage cluster sampling, lower level health facilities (LL...

OBJECTIVE The primary aim of the present study was to assess the quality of the Saudi Orthopedic Residency Program. METHODOLOGY As a comparator, a cross-sectional survey involving 76 Saudi residents from different training centers in Saudi Arabia namely; Riyadh, Jeddah, Medina, Abha, and Dammam and 15 Canadian. RESULTS The results showed that Canadian residents read more peer-reviewed, scho...

UNLABELLED Pain is a common and potentially debilitating condition. Whereas there is vast literature on developmentally appropriate behavioral techniques for pain management, results of curriculum evaluations and knowledge surveys reveal a dearth of awareness of these strategies in healthcare professionals. As a result, the development and evaluation of pain management training programs are imp...

clinical training is an important process in residency academic program in different fields. in this cross-sectional descriptive study, we identified the views of clinical residents about clinical training status at yazd university of medical sciences at their second-year of residency or above. we used questionnaire as the instrument for collecting information and select all residents as the sa...

BACKGROUND Midwifery education in Norway has undergone radical reforms in the past few decades. In 2004, the compulsory year of paid internship was removed from the requirement to become an authorised midwife. Since then, authorisation as a midwife depends on the successful completion of a two-year full-time academic course, consisting of 50% clinical practice and 50% theoretical education. Our...

Nurses' professional capacity plays an important role in the health system to achieve their mission. This study aimed to investigate the perspectives of nursing practitioners about undergraduate nursing internship and apprenticeship courses and possible ways of renewing the courses. This cross sectional survey was performed over 258 bachelors and practitioners of nursing graduates of Alborz Uni...