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, ...

Purpose of the study . Analysis implemented personnel practices presented in dissertations specialty 14.02.03. Public health and healthcare for 2016–2020. Materials methods We used data from website Higher Attestation Commission under Ministry Science Education Russian Federation. Of 220 dissertations, authors which were awarded degree candidate or doctor medical sciences 14.02.03 care, 21 scie...

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...

Background: Smoking is an established risk factor for many diseases and is one of the most important public health problems worldwide. According to the WHO, medical and paramedical staff can influence positively or negatively the smoking habits of a community. Objective: To explore the predictors of providing smoking cessation advice by medical and paramedical staff. Methods: We have conducted ...

AIM To describe the amount of medical and paramedical involvement in a sample of Breton children with cerebral palsy as a function of the Gross Motor Function Classification System (GMFCS). MATERIALS AND METHODS This is a transversal descriptive study. All children with cerebral palsy in Brittany were eligible. Parents who accepted to participate were asked to fill in a questionnaire regardin...

This study was conducted to evaluate the efficiency of different strategies of preventing hepatitis A (HA) among physicians, nurses, and paramedical staff by means of cost-effectiveness analysis. The strategies compared were passive immunization during a hepatitis A outbreak, systematic mass vaccination of all workers, and screening for antibodies to HA virus followed by vaccination of nonimmun...

Background: Myofascial pain syndrome (MPS) is common among females between ages 20-40 years. Psychosomatic and mechanical reasons are attributed as causative factors. Female health care workers (FHW) in hospitals with rapid patient turn over vulnerable to develop MPS. Our aim was ascertain the prevalence of MPS married FHW working various departments hospital its association poor sleep work str...

Concrement lithotripsy in the kidney and ureter using extracorporeal shock waves (ESWL) was performed with the aid of a 2nd-generation lithotriptor--Lithostar Siemens. Over a period of 11 months ESWL was applied in 526 patients aged 7 to 80 years, 10 of these were children. 19 patients had bilateral lithiasis so that the treatment was applied to a total of 545 renoureteral units and 698 concrem...