An Informed Decision – Responsibility of One towards Oneself (Preprint)

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alhad Mulkalwar
Keyword(s):  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Informed Decision ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Significant Aspect ◽  
Almost All

UNSTRUCTURED Persuasion of a career in Medical Sciences in India requires the student to undertake M.B.B.S, a five year long rigorous and comprehensive course which transforms them into young healthcare professionals of tomorrow. However, a significant aspect missing from almost all the components – students’ approach, curriculum, teaching, etc is that of exploration of different career avenues within and beyond the domain of healthcare, which one could pursue post their graduation. This article throws light upon the measures we as members of the medical fraternity can adopt so as to better enlighten students at different stages of their graduation about the different career avenues for them to make an informed decision about their future.

scholarly journals The Studying the Components of Social Capital and its Relationship with the Social Happiness in Iranian Students

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (4.7) ◽  
pp. 19
Author(s):  
Zadeh Foroughinia ◽  
Hakimeh Mohammadzadeh ◽  
Reza Pourmirza Kalhori ◽  
Neda Kianipour
Keyword(s):  
Social Capital ◽  
Significant Relationship ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Pearson Correlation ◽  
Cluster Sampling ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
The Social ◽  
Research Population ◽  
Iranian Students ◽  
Almost All

The concept of social capital, due to its nature and content, is associated with almost all the issues in the human, social and health fields. On the other hand, the role of happiness and joy in mental health, physical health, and social inclusion are very important in the field of health. The purpose of this study was to investigate the components of social capital and its relation with social happiness of students in Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences in 2017. This study is descriptive-correlational. The research population consisted of 450 students in Kermanshah University of Medical Sciences in 2017who were selected by cluster sampling. Bullen& Onyx Standard Social Capital Questionnaire and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire (OHQ) were used to collect data. Data were analyzed using descriptive and inferential statistics (Pearson correlation coefficient). Data analysis was performed using SPSS-23 software. In this research, social capital score was 3.17 ± 0.45 according to the students' score and the mean score of the social happiness was 3.68 ± 0.14. There was a positive and significant relationship between two variables of social capital and social happiness of students (r=0.423). Among the social capital fields, the variables of the value of life, trust, and security had the most and the least relationship with the overall social happiness. Social capital and its aspects have a direct and significant relationship with the social happiness; therefore, with increasing the social capital, the level of social happiness increases.  

scholarly journals Some issues regarding the Hungarian regulation of traditional Chinese medicine and possible solutions based on examples from the United Kingdom

2014 ◽  
Vol 155 (15) ◽  
pp. 575-581
Author(s):  
Márk Oravecz ◽  
Judit Mészáros ◽  
Funian Yu ◽  
Ildikó Horváth
Keyword(s):  
Chinese Medicine ◽  
Traditional Chinese Medicine ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Educational Background ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Factual Information ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
The Uk ◽  
New System

This paper aims to present factual information and to suggest possible solutions regarding some of the recent questions which have arisen regarding the regulation of traditional Chinese medicine in Hungary. According to current legislation “traditional Chinese doctors”, who are the most highly trained professionals in this field, are not allowed to practice Chinese medicine and acupuncture in Hungary. This situation cannot be explained by their educational background, as they receive thorough training in both Chinese medicine and modern medical sciences. Furthermore, this legislation is not supported by any EU standard: Traditional Chinese medicine professionals can practice Chinese medicine and acupuncture in a number of European countries within a legal and regulated framework. Different kinds of healthcare professionals may practice Chinese medicine and acupuncture in the UK – this could be a good example for Hungarian regulation. The five-year bachelor level traditional Chinese medicine training at the Faculty of Health Sciences, Semmelweis University and the increasing number of locally trained traditional Chinese medicine professionals could be a good basis for laying the groundwork of the new system. Orv., Hetil., 2014, 155(15), 575–581.

scholarly journals Gender based EEG before and after acute bout of aerobic exercise

2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 29-34
Author(s):  
Nirmala Limbu ◽  
Ramanjan Sinha ◽  
Meenakshi Sinha ◽  
Bishnu Hari Paudel
Keyword(s):  
Acute Exercise ◽  
Healthy Adult ◽  
Alpha Power ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Acute Bout ◽  
Before And After ◽  
Eeg Changes ◽  
Gender Based ◽  
Exercise Induced ◽  
Almost All

Objective: We aimed to investigate how EEG frequency bands change in females in response to acute exercise compared to males.Methods: Consenting healthy adult females (n=15) & males (n=15) bicycled an ergometer at 50% HRmax for 20 min. EEG was recorded using 10-20 system from mid-frontal (F4 & F3), central (C4 & C3), parietal (P4 & P3), temporal (T4 & T3) & occipital (O2 & O1) regions. Exercise-induced EEG changes were compared between two sexes by Mann Whitney test. EEG power (μV2) is presented as median & interquartile range.Results: In females, as compared to males, resting right side delta, alpha, and beta activities were more in almost all recorded sites [delta: F4= 49.82 (44.23-63.56) vs. 35.5 (32.70-44.44), p < 0.001; etc], [alpha F4: 127.62 (112.89-149.03) vs. 49.36 (46.37-52.98), p < 0.001; etc], [beta F4= 18.96 (15.83-25.38)  vs. 14.77 (10.34-17.55), p < 0.05; C4= 21.16 (18.4-25.9) vs. 15.48 (9.66-19.40), p < 0.01; etc]. Similarly, females resting right theta activity was more in parietal [P4= 33.04 (25.1-42.41) vs. 22.3 (18.36-34.33), p < 0.05] & occipital [O2= 50.81 (30.64-66.8) vs. 26.85 (22.18-34.42), p < 0.001] regions than in males. They had similar picture on the left side also. The delta values of right alpha power was less in female in frontal [F4= -11.61 (-45.24 -3.64) vs. 9.48 (1.05-16.58), p < 0.01] and central [C4= -72 (-32.98-9.48) vs. 22.69 (13.03-33.05), p < 0.01] regions compared to males. Also, they had less delta values of left central alpha [C3= -8.32 (-32.65-6.1) vs. 16.5 (0.36-36.36), p < 0.01] and temporal beta [T3= -6.29 (-10.09- -1.49) vs. 1.24 (-0.84- 2.8), p < 0.001] power compared to males.Conclusion: At rest females may have high EEG powers in different bands. In response to acute exercise, they respond in reverse way as compared to males.DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/ajms.v6i2.11116Asian Journal of Medical Sciences Vol.6(2) 2015 30-35

Learner Acceptance of Using Virtual Patient Encounters to Train Foreign Healthcare Professionals in Swedish

2017 ◽  
pp. 379-393
Author(s):  
Uno G. H. Fors ◽  
Olivier Courteille
Keyword(s):  
Learning Environments ◽  
Communication Skills ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Virtual Patient ◽  
Patient Communication ◽  
Virtual Patients ◽  
Educational Value ◽  
Good Communication ◽  
Professional Needs ◽  
Almost All

Healthcare professionals need good communication skills to be able to communicate with patients. In such provider-patient communication, the professional needs to be well understood by the patient, but also be able to understand subtle parts of a medical history taking dialogue with worried, sick or mentally affected patients. Virtual Patients (VPs) – learning environments that simulate encounters between a patient and a physician – were used to prepare 26 immigrating professionals in Swedish for healthcare practitioners. The professionals were speaking nine different foreign languages and used two different VP systems to train patient communication. Almost all participants welcomed the use of VPs for training communication in healthcare Swedish and 19 of the 26 users indicated that they considered that VPs should be mandatory to use in future courses. Targeted individual training in provider-patient communication with Virtual Patients seems to be of great educational value and well accepted by immigrating healthcare professionals.

Social and Ethical Concerns of Biomedical Engineering Research and Practice

2011 ◽  
pp. 54-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Snehasish Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Biomedical Engineering ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Technological Advancement ◽  
Ethical Values ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Engineering Research ◽  
Bioethical Issues

Biomedical engineering is an advanced and relatively new field in the healthcare sector. Owing to the very nature of the various professional challenges faced by healthcare professionals, the moral and ethical values seem to have taken the backburner. The factors contributing to it may include a sound knowledge of the healthcare professional on the legally-permissible ethical values, and the desperate situations requiring precise split-moment decision-making. No technological advancement without a human face is worth it, and hence, during the course of the degree, a biomedical engineering student needs to be exposed to various ethical issues through theory, live cases and demonstrations. Being intrinsically multi- and inter-disciplinary, biomedical engineering lacks precise ethical rules that delineate and delimit professional responsibility, thus blurring the ethical understanding of biomedical engineering. The solution seems to lie in giving due place to human virtues. In the coming days, bioethical issues are expected to be increasingly complicated and dominating the decision-making process owing to the advancements in sciences, and the ever-complicated cases handled by healthcare professionals. A global healthcare and ethics-related online open-access portal may serve as a common platform for all the stakeholders in the interest and ethical growth of biomedical engineering in particular and medical sciences in general.

scholarly journals Accessing research literature: A mixed-method study of academics in Higher Education Institutions in Nepal

2014 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 405-14
Author(s):  
Padam Simkhada ◽  
E Van Teijlingen ◽  
B Devkota ◽  
SR Pathak ◽  
B Sathian
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Research Literature ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Computer Lab ◽  
Study Results ◽  
Health Related ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Public Health Practitioners ◽  
Teacher's Knowledge ◽  
Self Administered Questionnaire

Background:  Research in Higher Education (HE), particularly in health and medical sciences plays a crucial role, not only in enhancing knowledge and skills of students and academics, but also in helping to develop   managers and policy makers who rely on evidence-based planning and programming. This paper reports university teacher’s knowledge and practices in accessing to electronic research-based evidences in health and medical sciences in Nepal. Material and Methods: This was mixed-methods study comprising a self-administered questionnaire completed by HE teachers and informant key interviews with authorities of HE institutions. A total of 15 out of the total 40 institutions offering HE above Bachelors level on health-related subjects were included for the study. Results: The response rate was 68%; 244 out of 360 HE teachers completed self-administered questionnaire.  The respondents comprised nurses (36%), followed by doctors (23%), public health practitioners (18%), dentists (17%) and pharmacists (12%). Most of the HE teachers reported that they have computer skills and possess their own computer. Two-thirds (66%) of the HE teachers had work email and almost all (93%) have a personal email ID.  All institutions had a computer lab and/or library. Almost all teachers had internet access at work but the internet was reportedly slow. Each institution had a librarian to support to the students and staff but only a third of teachers sought their help. Many do not know what kind of support librarians can provide. Less than half of the staff had accessed electronic research materials. This proportion varied between HE institutions ranging from 13 to 83%. HINARI and PubMed were the mostly used research databases. Less than half of respondents (48%) had published research papers in peer-reviewed journals, and only 19% published a paper based on a systematic review. Female HE teachers were less likely to publish (32%) than males (68%).  More readers and professors had published (75%) than instructors/assistant lecturers (30%) and lecturers (45%).  Conclusions: Accessing electronic research literature provides an opportunity to gathering up-to-date research-based information that should be core to all health curricula.  We call upon curriculum developers and university authorities in Nepal to revise health curricula and help build electronic searching skills among staff and students. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/nje.v4i4.11375 Nepal Journal of Epidemiology 2014; 4(4):405-14

scholarly journals Visiting Policies of Hospice Wards during the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Environmental Scan in Taiwan

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (8) ◽  
pp. 2857 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ya-Chuan Hsu ◽  
Ya-An Liu ◽  
Ming-Hwai Lin ◽  
Hsiao-Wen Lee ◽  
Tzeng-Ji Chen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Disease Transmission ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Policy Changes ◽  
Travel History ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Difficult Decision ◽  
Phone Calls ◽  
Open Policy ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Visiting Policy

During an epidemic, almost all healthcare facilities restrict the visiting of patients to prevent disease transmission. For hospices with terminally ill patients, the trade-off between compassion and infection control becomes a difficult decision. This study aimed to survey the changes in visiting policy for all 76 hospice wards in Taiwan during the COVID-19 pandemic in March 2020. The altered visiting policies were assessed by the number of visitors per patient allowed at one time, the daily number of visiting slots, the number of hours open daily, and requisites for hospice ward entry. The differences in visiting policies between hospice wards and ordinary wards were also investigated. Data were collected by reviewing the official website of each hospital and were supplemented by phone calls in cases where no information was posted on the website. One quarter (n = 20) of hospice wards had different visiting policies to those of ordinary wards in the same hospital. Only one hospice ward operated an open policy, and in contrast, nine (11.8%) stopped visits entirely. Among the 67 hospice wards that allowed visiting, at most, two visitors at one time per patient were allowed in 46 (68.6%), one visiting time daily was allowed in 32 (47.8%), one hour of visiting per day was allowed in 29 (43.3%), and checking of identity and travel history was carried out in 12 wards (17.9%). During the COVID-19 pandemic, nearly all hospice wards in Taiwan changed their visiting policies, but the degree of restriction varied. Further studies could measure the impacts of visiting policy changes on patients and healthcare professionals.

scholarly journals Imaging Review of Procedural and Periprocedural Complications of Central Venous Lines, Percutaneous Intrathoracic Drains, and Nasogastric Tubes

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 1-18 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hamdan Al-Jahdali ◽  
Klaus L. Irion ◽  
Carolyn Allen ◽  
Daniel Marafiga de Godoy ◽  
Ali Nawaz Khan
Keyword(s):  
Health Professionals ◽  
Interventional Procedures ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Central Venous ◽  
Nasogastric Tubes ◽  
High Dependency ◽  
Imaging Characteristics ◽  
Standard Procedures ◽  
Procedural Complications ◽  
Almost All

Placements of central venous lines (CVC), percutaneous intrathoracic drains (ITDs), and nasogastric tubes (NGTs) are some of the most common interventional procedures performed on patients that are unconscious and in almost all intensive care/high dependency patients in one form or the other. These are standard procedures within the remit of physicians, and other trained health professionals. Procedural complications may occur in 7%–15% of patients depending upon the intervention and experience of the operator. Most complications are minor, but other serious complications may add significantly to morbidity and even mortality of already compromised patients. Imaging findings are the key to the detection of misplaced lines, and tubes and their prompt recognition are vital to avoid harm to the patient. It is, therefore, pertinent that healthcare professionals who perform these procedures are familiar with imaging complications of these procedures. Here, we present the imaging characteristics of procedural complications.

scholarly journals The first academician from dentistry, professor, colonel of medical service A.I. Rybakov

2019 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 252-255
Author(s):  
A K Iordanishvili
Keyword(s):  
Medical Service ◽  
Periodontal Diseases ◽  
Maxillofacial Surgery ◽  
Central Research Institute ◽  
Scientific Activity ◽  
Central Research ◽  
Medical Sciences ◽  
Great Patriotic War ◽  
History Of ◽  
Almost All

Presents information from the life of a maxillofacial surgeon and dentist, one of the patriarchs of domestic dentistry, a veteran of the Great Patriotic War, academician of the Academy of Medical Sciences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics, doctor of medical sciences, professor, colonel of medical service Anatoly Ivanovich Rybakov, known in our country and abroad. , who was the first director of the Central Research Institute of Dentistry. The data on the formation of A.I. Rybakov as a military doctor and dentist, his combat path during the Great Patriotic War. Turning to the life and professional and social activities of Anatoly Ivanovich, one can find not only interesting scientific facts from the history of dentistry and maxillofacial surgery, but also analogies with modernity, answers to many clinical problems of the specialty and medicine of today. The main directions of his scientific activity, which touched questions of almost all sections of dentistry and maxillofacial surgery, are noted. A.I. Rybakov was one of the creators of the working concept of the pathogenesis of dental caries and periodontal diseases, the author of the first recorded discovery in dentistry on the phenomenon of the production of intestinal antigen by the oral mucosa of mammals, the founder of the study of the epidemiology of dental diseases in Russia and the Republics of the Soviet Socialist Republics. It is noted that he was a refined connoisseur of the history of national ballet, a true professional and an authority in this field of art. Anatoly Ivanovich, being one of the founders of domestic dentistry, as well as the school of dentists and maxillofacial surgeons, is rightfully recognized as one of the patriarchs of domestic dentistry.

scholarly journals Is simulation-based team training performed by personnel in accordance with the INACSL Standards of Best Practice: SimulationSM?—a qualitative interview study

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Strand Finstad ◽  
Randi Ballangrud ◽  
Ingunn Aase ◽  
Torben Wisborg ◽  
Luis Georg Romundstad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Best Practice ◽  
Healthcare Professionals ◽  
Qualitative Interviews ◽  
Team Training ◽  
Public Hospitals ◽  
Clinical Simulation ◽  
International Nursing ◽  
Qualitative Interview Study ◽  
Simulation Based ◽  
Almost All

Abstract Background Anesthesia personnel was among the first to implement simulation and team training including non-technical skills (NTS) in the field of healthcare. Within anesthesia practice, NTS are critically important in preventing harmful undesirable events. To our best knowledge, there has been little documentation of the extent to which anesthesia personnel uses recommended frameworks like the Standards of Best Practice: SimulationSM to guide simulation and thereby optimize learning. The aim of our study was to explore how anesthesia personnel in Norway conduct simulation-based team training (SBTT) with respect to outcomes and objectives, facilitation, debriefing, and participant evaluation. Methods Individual qualitative interviews with healthcare professionals, with experience and responsible for SBTT in anesthesia, from 51 Norwegian public hospitals were conducted from August 2016 to October 2017. A qualitative deductive content analysis was performed. Results The use of objectives and educated facilitators was common. All participants participated in debriefings, and almost all conducted evaluations, mainly formative. Preparedness, structure, and time available were pointed out as issues affecting SBTT. Conclusions Anesthesia personnel’s SBTT in this study met the International Nursing Association for Clinical Simulation and Learning (INACSL) Standard of Best Practice: SimulationSM framework to a certain extent with regard to objectives, facilitators’ education and skills, debriefing, and participant evaluation.

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