Every year, certain trends shapethe healthcare industry. Businesses in the medical field must stay on top of these trends to continue to provide the best service to their clientele. Falling behind means potentially losing clients and trailing the competition. The right software helps healthcare orga...
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Open access journals represent a new business model in the field of biomedical journal publications. PLOS OiVEbegan in 2006 and published 138 articles. It published 1200 articles in 2007. In 2011, PLOS ONE published 13,798 articles. In 2011, approximately one in 60 of all articles indexed by...
Establishment of a large semi-field system for experimental study of African malaria vector ecology and control in Tanzania Background: Medical entomologists increasingly recognize that the ability to make inferences between laboratory experiments of vector biology and epidemiol... Ferguson,HM,Ng'habi,....
The past decade has seen less competition for medical school positions accompanied by the declining interest of medical students in internal medicine. At the same time, the number of first postgraduate-year positions in internal medicine residencies has increased, as has the number of first-year re...
Medical students, and all those in the medical field, may be uniquely affected by this prevalence of substance use. For example, the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention produced a documentary entitled “Struggling in Silence: Physician Depression and Suicide,” which highlights the powerful ...
The chapter discusses current trends in medical education, identified by thought leaders in the field. The speed of developments in health care and education will require programmes, learners, and educators to adapt throughout the continuum of training and practice, as a core quality....
Many medical eponyms are used to describe diseases and conditions in the medical field. A few examples of medical eponyms are Crohn's disease, Huntington's disease, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease. Some conditions are named after fictional characters, including Peter Pan syndrome and ...
Whitla DK, Orfield G, Silen W, Teperow C, Howard C, Reede J. Educational benefits of diversity in medical school: a survey of students. Acad Med. 2003;78(5):460-466. doi:10.1097/00001888-200305000-00007 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref Meeting the Challenge of...
The exploration of brain-computer interfaces (BCI) has mostly been driven by the medical field. By sending electronic signals, BCI can help people who are paralyzed to walk again. And the technology has the potential for wider practical applications. Simply by thinking of an action or using eye...