A near-peer regional surgical teaching programme designed by medical students, delivered by junior doctors.

Background: Near-peer teaching initiatives has been shown to be a highly successful method of improving student learning. There has been little data on surgical teaching initiatives of this kind and little data to show if this improves student confidence in surgical topics. This study was designed to show whether a regional surgical teaching programme, delivered by junior doctors, improves confidence levels of students prior to their final examinations.

Trends of Patients' Preferences in the Management of First and Early Second Trimester Pregnancy Loss Towards the Choice of Medical or Surgical Termination of Pregnancy in a Tertiary Care Center in Oman.

Background: This study aimed to find out the patients preference towards the management of pregnancy loss to either Misoprostol or dilatation and evacuation or curettage (D&C) in two different study periods.

Methods: Retrospective chart review study included a total of 411 patients. The first study period was January to December 2010 and the second study period was January to December 2014.