BMC Medical Education (2016) 16:85 Page 3 of 7 in the Sydney Medical Program (SMP) attend University main campus 4 days per week. One day per week, stu- dents attend their "home clinical school". Home clinical schools are based at one of six metropolitan teaching hos- pitals. There,...
Main Outcome Measures Quality of life (QOL) and symptoms of burnout were assessed, as were year of training, sex, medical school location, educational debt, and IM-ITE score reported as percentage of correct responses. Results Quality of life was rated “as bad as it can be” or “somewhat...
A convenience sample of medical students from a London medical school were invited to take part in the study. Advertisements on campus, in the weekly e-b ulletin, and on student social media groups were used for recruit- ment. The study aimed to enrol 15–25 participants. This sample ...
Department of Radiology and Physical Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain Alberto Jimenez-Zayas, Dolores Domínguez-Pinos, Miguel Jose Ruiz-Gomez & Francisco Sendra-Portero Department of Emergency and Critical Care, Hospital de La Serranía, Ronda, Spain Rocio Lorenzo-...
Peak errors in the reconstructed images by the integer-based wavelet transform are also much lower than those obtained by the JPEG and the float-point-based wavelet coding. In near lossless compression, lossless encoding of the wavelet coefficients of the pre-quantized image shows higher PSNR than...
Food allergy can result in life-threatening anaphylaxis and is considered an increasing public health burden. Hospitalized patients are dependent on the hospital menu to meet their nutritional needs; thus, errors in the meals provided can have a substant
identified themes and constructed an initial coding framework (Fig.1), and the themes and framework were reviewed by MA and MP. Several rounds of discussion were used to refine the themes and determine those with greatest significance, and MA applied the coding framework to the whole of the ...
physician. “Hearing about physician burnout and the mental health impact of being a physician has been really discouraging,” one student said. “I take my mental health seriously, so I guess trying to place that in my mind of, okay, is this worth going through eight years of school?”....
18 To date, however, research has not examined whether end-of-life discussions are associated with patients' medical care in the final week of life, or whether the medical care received at the end of life is correlated with differences in patients' quality of life near death or caregivers' ...
Campus Box 8100, St. Louis, MO, 63110, USA Ross C. Brownson Contributions RCB and RRJ designed the study. RCB, RRJ, MD, DAC, CP, JK and SK helped develop and refine the interview guide. AG carried out interviews. RRJ and AG completed coding and analysis. All authors provided ...