OBJECTIVE Emergency medicine is an evolving discipline in Canadian medical schools. Little has been published regarding student preferences for emergency medicine training during the clerkship phase of MD programs. We assessed medical students' perceptions of a newly developed emergency medicine clerkship rotation involving multiple learning modalities. The evaluation process included assessmen...

1 Universidade Federal da Bahia, Escola de Nutrição, Departamento Ciência da Nutrição. Av. Araújo Pinho, 32, Canela, 40110-150, Salvador, BA, Brasil. Correspondência para/Correspondence to: RC RIBEIRO-SILVA. E-mail: . 2 Universidade Federal da Bahia, Faculdade de Odontologia, Departamento de Odontologia Social e Pediátrica. Salvador, BA, Brasil. Support: Fundação de Amparo à P...

Background: Sufficient and thorough knowledge in early recognition of symptoms and proper management of ASD is of utmost importance to medical graduates in the initial years of their learning in medical school. Their knowledge regarding ASD will be helpful when they become health care professionals as it will be easy for proper management of ASD. Our aim is to evaluate and analyze medical under...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES The study's objective was to determine medical students' knowledge of and attitudes toward family medicine before and after completing a course in primary care. METHODS Before and after a course in primary care, 81 medical students were asked to respond to a self-administered, anonymous questionnaire, comprising 34 items that measured students' attitudes and knowledg...

objectives: the present study was designed to investigate and compare the degree of suffering and severity of psychiatric symptoms among senior students of medicine and of other fields. method: the subjects were 126 senior students of medicine and 84 senior students of science, technology and art at two tehran universities. they were matched in terms of demographic factors. they were administra...

OBJECTIVES To determine the perceptions of medical students in Ghana about family medicine with regard to knowledge and relevance as well as specialty preferences. DESIGN A descriptive study. METHOD The study was conducted on first clinical year students of the University of Ghana Medical School (first group of students introduced to the specialty of family medicine) in July 2008, using str...

OBJECTIVE The European Academy of Teachers in General Practice / Family Medicine (EURACT) has developed an educational agenda, the key document for teaching family medicine in Europe. The aim of our study was to find out how final year medical students at the beginning of their family medicine clerkship understand the discipline of family medicine. METHODS The attitudes toward family medicine...

OBJECTIVE To assess the prevalence of the use of medicines and other products for therapeutic purposes in the Brazilian pediatric population and test whether demographic, socioeconomic and health factors are associated with use. METHODS A cross-sectional population-based study (National Survey on Access, Use and Promotion of Rational Use of Medicines - PNAUM), including 7,528 children aged 12...

BACKGROUND Consistent with osteopathic principles and practice, the nation's colleges of osteopathic medicine (COMs) have emphasized the significance of the musculoskeletal system to the practice of medicine. The authors hypothesized that graduating COM students would, therefore, demonstrate superior knowledge and competence in musculoskeletal medicine when compared with graduates of allopathic...