BACKGROUND The composition of the Institutional Ethics Committee (IEC) with an equal respect plays a major role in evaluating research proposals to ensure the safety of the subjects and ethical quality of research project. It is mandatory that all research projects with an involvement of human subjects should be approved by the IEC before commencement. AIM To find out the equality of respect ...

SETTING The influence of undergraduate and postgraduate training on health professionals' career choices in favour of rural and underserved communities has not been clearly demonstrated in resource-constrained settings. OBJECTIVES This study aimed to evaluate the influence of educational factors on the choice of rural or urban sites of practice of health professionals in South Africa. METHO...

Postgraduate research is a form of study offered by a university or an institution of advanced learning. The emphasis of postgraduate research is on developing systematic skills of investigation in research process. It is not necessarily aimed at producing ground breaking innovation or extending knowledge as is commonly perceived. Most postgraduate research involves basic and to a lesser extent...

paid study leave is not available and child care expenses may also have to be met. Since April 1991 regional postgraduate deans have been given funds for postgraduate medical education for those on the scheme, and the amount allocated to each doctor varies across the regions but is usually inadequate to cover the required seven educational sessions. Since the inception of the postgraduate educa...

Neylane Nyéria Coelho Batista Gadelha1, Diego Nery Benevides Gadelha2, Alexandre Rolim da Paz3, Maria Cecília Santos Cavalcanti Melo4, Thárcia Kiara Beserra Oliveira5, Carlos Teixeira Brandt6 1 Fellow MSc degree, Postgraduate Program in Surgery, Health Sciences Center, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (UFPE), Recife, PE, Brazil. 2 PhD, Postgraduate Program in Surgery, Health Sciences Center, ...

E-learning is a method of delivering knowledge using information technology and electronic media for the remote users. The advantages of e-learning method can be fully achieved with the postgraduate studies as majority of the postgraduate students are engaged in learning while they are working and also geographically dispersed due to the family and work life thus physically appearing for the le...

The Singapore Medical School celebrates its Centenary in 2005. This historical review is presented on Singapore's postgraduate medical education and specialist training programmes. The special informal role of the Alumni Association and its members during the early years and soon after World War II is highlighted. Postgraduate education and specialist training was more formalised only during th...

Disability is a problem that affects more and more children and adolescents. But in the course of our graduate and postgraduate education, we have received practically no training in this regard. A pediatrician is the primary care physician of every child and adolescent, and the above-mentioned lack of training becomes a hurdle in the care provided to children with disabilities. Our idea of div...