INTRODUCTION Since the 1950s, sexual health education in medical schools has been evaluated and reported upon, but there has never been an assessment published about sexual health curricula in U.S. physician assistant (PA) programs. AIM The aim of this study was to gain better understanding of how PA programs cover sexual health topics. METHODS Between January and March 2014, 181 accredited...

Online social networking provides support to health professionals' learning and professional development. To understand their learning needs in this context, this study employs topic modelling of postings to an online social network for health professionals to identify the topics of interest. The analysis shows that the health professionals in this network were more interested in discussing non...

Institute. Medical Education Development Center, Isfahan university of Medical Sciences. 5000 medical students graduate each year. They are assumed to have enough capabilities to manage common diseases but evidences don't show such capacity. This study was designed to plan a curriculum for Gynecology internship, implement the curriculum and evaluate its effectiveness. Methods. As a survey, all...

An invited report on national occupational health research priorities, agenda and strategy of Japan was delivered in the NORA (National Occupational Research Agenda) Symposium 2001, USA. The third NORA Symposium was held by the US National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) in Washington DC on June 27, 2001. The national conference in Japan entitled "Conference on Occupational...