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Motivations to writing scientific medical articles are outlined as well as types of medical publications and requirements to a good article. Market of medical papers is analysed and algorithm of search for a journal for sending publication is presented. Correlations between medical practice and science, training of personnel and co-authorship are considered.
A medical prescription may sometimes include errors which might have a negative impact on the patient's health. The objective of this study was to analyse the key elements of medical prescriptions given to patients covered by the Ouagadougou social security health insurance system. The population of practitioners included in the study comprises all of the medical doctors practicing in Ouagadougou. The study consisted of a review of all prescriptions registered by the family benefits and professional hazards service branches dating from January 1st to December 31st 1997. The identification of the doctors and patients was satisfactory in more than 97% of the prescriptions. However, certain errors were frequent such as the omission of the treatment's duration, the medication's dosage, and the form. The oversights observed were comparable to those described in the literature. Repeating similar periodic evaluations with a systematic feedback relayed to the practitioners will bring about an improvement of medical prescriptions.
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CONTEXT: Although interest exists among medical educators in using writing that reflects on clinical experience to enhance medical students' communication skills, empathy, and overall professionalism, little empirical research documents the value of this approach. This study explored whether students trained in one type of writing would first demonstrate increased awareness of emotional aspects of a clinical encounter in their writing; and second, be evaluated more positively in an OSCE situation by standardized patients. METHOD: Ninety-two students were assigned to either a point-of-view writing or a clinical reasoning condition as part of a second year doctoring course. At the end of the year, students were evaluated in an OSCE format on 3 cases, and completed a writing assignment about an ER death from cardiac arrest. Student essays were scored according to presence or absence of various themes. A linguistic analysis of the essays was also performed. Point-of-view and clinical reasoning group scores were compared on both measures, as well as on the standardized patient OSCE ratings. RESULTS: Students trained in point-of-view writing demonstrated significantly more awareness of emotional and spiritual aspects of a paper case in a writing assignment than did students trained in clinical reasoning. By contrast, students in the clinical reasoning group were more likely to distance from the scenario. The two groups did not differ on SP OSCE ratings. CONCLUSION: Training in point-of-view writing can improve medical students' written skills on certain affective dimensions. It is not clear that these skills can translate into clinical behavior.
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From the military occupation of Tunisia by France in 1881 to that country's independence in 1956, several successive medical observers left behind a wealth of information on the state of health of hte populations composing the Tunisian mosaic. Even thought pre-colonial Tunisia has often been described as a land saddled with disasters and plagues, medical "topographers," most of whom were military doctors accompanying the French expeditionary corps, focused on the fact that few epidemics ever occurred in Tunisia at the time of the Regency. According to some of them, the health situation was better than in Algeria who had been a colony for half a century. The research conducted by the Institut Pasteur in Tunis and medical dissertations by hospital interns in the Regency's capital provide a second source of information comprising invaluable information about endemic infectious diseases. In the inter-war period, the social hygiene movement concentrated upon fighting tuberculosis and protecting infant and maternal health, shifting medical focus to social or "ordinary" diseases and their treatment. Prior to Tunisian independence, a third wave of studies conducted by the new university's socio-medical research group reinforced the connection between lifestyle and health.
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Only one copy exists of the very first medical self-help book written in the Yiddish language. The author, a well respected. barber-surgeon in Prague, states that he wrote the book for those too poor to consult a physician. Physicians were not as knowledgable or experienced as the barber-surgeons who were the principal providers of medical care for the masses. The book follows the format of discussing illnesses from head to toe, and includes numerous prescriptions for toothache, loose teeth, foul mouth and sore tongue. We derive an interesting picture of what dental treatment was like in the mid-seventeenth century.
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