this study aims to introduce the information seeking anxiety construct as a phenomenon among postgraduate students. it also presents the information seeking anxiety scale (isas) as a valid and reliable instrument. further, the current study investigates the prevalence of information seeking anxiety among postgraduate students at a research-intensive university in kuala lumpur, malaysia. results...

Background Tutors were appointed in the main hospitals of the Birmingham region in 1963 and were given honorary University status. Central administration of postgraduate education is in the hands of the Board of Graduate Studies of the Medical School, which deals with advertisement and finance, leaving detailed arrangements to local hospitals. Our own activities are conducted by a small subcomm...

INTRODUCTION The German healthcare system is facing ongoing radical change and development. The increasing tendency to urge hospitals and medical staff to work in a profit-oriented way constitute among other factors clear present and future challenges. Physicians and surgeons in particular increasingly complain of increasing stress attributed to measures aiming at cost reduction in hospitals. T...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to evaluate community mental health professionals and hospital workers attitude and awareness towards suicide. METHODS This study investigated 264 community mental health professionals and 228 hospital workers. SOQs (Suicidal Opinion Questionnaires) were used from July 2007 to September 2007. After a factor analysis for the attitude towards suicide, th...

Calls by Lilienfeld, Fraser, and others some three decades ago to introduce epidemiology into undergraduate college education remain largely unfulfilled. Consideration of epidemiology as a "liberal art" has also led to exploring possibilities for introducing epidemiology into early education: to high and even middle schools. Adding epidemiology to school curricula should help educate the public...

1 Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India 2 PDT Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India 3 Professor, Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education and Research, Kolkata, India 4 Professor and Head, ...

1 PDT Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata 2 Assistant Professor, Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata 3 Professor, Department of Cardiac Anaesthesiology Institute of Postgraduate Medical Education & Research, Kolkata 4 Professor & Head, Department of Cardiac Anaesth...

Vocational trainees in the West Midlands who were in their general practice year were sent a postal questionnaire to find out whether there were important differences between the criteria for training of the 1986 West Midland postgraduate education committee (based on national recommendations) and the perceptions of the trainees of their current trainers and practices. The response rate was 86....

There was a request recently to categorise aspects of postgraduate medical education as either "academic" or "vocational." This raises a question about the meaning of words and about the logic behind such a distinction. In common parlance "academic" means impracticable and irrelevant to the real business of living. A "vocation" was once a calling to the higher rungs of a profession but now "voc...

Introduction In order to achieve health for all, it is essential to attract and retain health workers in rural India, a need recognised by the National Rural Health Mission (NRHM), a flagship programme of government of India. Since the majority of allopathic doctors aspire to do specialisation, making it easier for doctors serving in rural areas to get admission to specialist medical postgradua...