scholarly journals Medical education system in Malaysia maintaining a gold standard – an extraordinary example from the Malaysian Society of Pharmacology and Physiology

2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 697-98
Author(s):  
Bedanta Roy ◽  
Nicholas Goh ◽  
Rukhsana Hussain Malik

Founded in 2011 Quest International University Perak (QIUP) is a private university in partnership with Perak state Government. Various professional programmes are conducted in Faculty of Medicine (FOM) helps the young lecturers. Enormous financial aids and moral support are provided by the University for competitive events which are highly appreciable. Universities across the world should encourage their faculties, to organize and participate healthy competitions like quiz, teachers’ prize to make a better educator who guides future health care professionals. Nepal J Epidemiol. 2017;7(3); 697-698

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Klaas Berkel ◽  
Guus Termeer

The University of Groningen has been an international university since its foundation in 1614. The first professors formed a rich international community, and many students came from outside the Netherlands, especially from areas now belonging to Germany. Internationalization, a popular slogan nowadays, is therefore nothing new, but its meaning has changed over time. How did the University of Groningen grow from a provincial institution established for religious reasons into a top-100 university with 36,000 students, of whom 25% come from abroad and almost half of the academic staff is of foreign descent? What is the identity of this four-century-old university that is still strongly anchored in the northern part of the Netherlands but that also has a mind that is open to the world? The history of the university, as told by Klaas van Berkel and Guus Termeer, ends with a short paragraph on the impact of the corona crisis.


2021 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 2043-2054
Author(s):  
Christophe Moderie ◽  
Éric Drouin ◽  
Richard Rioux ◽  
Anne-Sophie Thommeret-Carrière ◽  
Sébastien Béland ◽  
...  

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-5 ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Hakim ◽  
I. A. Razak

Objective. To assess the prevalence and level of dental fear among health related undergraduates and to identify factors causing such fear using Kleinknecht’s Dental Fear Survey (DFS) questionnaire.Methods. Kleinknecht’s DFS questionnaire was used to assess dental fear and anxiety among the entire enrollment of the medical and dental undergraduates’ of the University of Malaya.Results. Overall response rate was 82.2%. Dental students reported higher prevalence of dental fear (96.0% versus 90.4%). However, most of the fear encountered among dental students was in the low fear category as compared to their medical counterpart (69.2 versus 51.2%). Significantly more medical students cancelled dental appointment due to fear compared to dental students (P=0.004). “Heart beats faster” and “muscle being tensed” were the top two physiological responses experienced by the respondents. “Drill” and “anesthetic needle” were the most fear provoking objects among respondents of both faculties.Conclusion. Dental fear and anxiety are a common problem encountered among medical and dental undergraduates who represent future health care professionals. Also, high level of dental fear and anxiety leads to the avoidance of the dental services.


1994 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
pp. 231-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beverley E. Holland ◽  
Kay T. Roberts ◽  
Arthur Van Stewart ◽  
John C. Wright

2020 ◽  
Vol 8 (E) ◽  
pp. 7-12
Author(s):  
Nesreen Mohamed Kamal Elden ◽  
Hebatallah A. Nasser ◽  
Aliaa Alli ◽  
Nayra Mahmoud ◽  
Mai Ahmed Shawky ◽  
...  

BACKGROUND: Self-medication is a practice with major global implications, especially with antibiotics intake. Self-medication among future health-care professionals could affect their way in prescribing medication in the future. AIM: This study was conducted to estimate the magnitude and the determinants of antibiotics self-medication practices and to describe the pattern of antibiotics abuse among undergraduate university students. METHODS: A cross-section study was conducted among 563 medical students from public and private universities in Cairo, Egypt, using a questionnaire. RESULTS: About 77.7% of the students used antibiotics without prescriptions with no statistical differences by age, sex, residence, or type of universities. More than half of the students (51.7%) do not know the effect of antibiotics abuse on microbial resistance. Most self-treated antibiotics were used to manage gastroenteritis symptoms (70%), respiratory symptoms (63%), and dental infections (36%), other causes such as headache or prophylactic reasons (21%). About 91.7% of the self-medicated students reported access to antibiotics from the pharmacy without a prescription and 71% of them mentioned discontinuation of a course of antibiotics at least once during the last year. About 81% of the students who do not know the effect of antibiotic abuse are self-medicated versus 75% of their counterpart who know and this difference is statistically significant. The multivariate analysis identified the residence as an independent predictor of their knowledge (area of residence = 1.6, 95% confidence interval [1.1–2.3]). CONCLUSION: The prevalence of self-medication with antibiotics among university students in Cairo is high. Our findings highlight the urgent need for tailored interventions to control this practice.


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