Perceptions and attitudes of medical students towards student evaluation of teaching: A cross-sectional study.

Background: Faculty evaluation surveys in the frame of student evaluation of teaching (SETs) are a widely utilized tool to assess faculty teaching. Although SETs are used regularly to evaluate teaching effectiveness, their sole use for making administrative decisions and as an indicator of teaching quality has been controversial.

Methods: A survey containing 22 items assessing demographics, perception, and factors for evaluating faculty was distributed to medical students at our institute.

Student, school, parent connectedness, and school risk behaviors of adolescents in Saudi Arabia.

Background And Objectives: School-related risk behaviours, such as school absenteeism, and engaging in violence on school property are scarcely addressed in the Kingdom. The study investigated select school behaviours, including school absenteeism, engaging in fights, and discipline for misconduct at school as well as their association with the school environment, school and home connectedness.

Design And Setting: A school-based cross-sectional study.

Tobacco use among adolescents in Riyadh Saudi Arabia.

Background: Initiation of smoking behavior during adolescence is associated with negative health outcomes. Understanding initiation of smoking behavior in adolescents in relation to other behavioral, health, and environmental factors is essential for effective behavioral modification.

Objective: The aim of this study was to describe tobacco use behaviors among adolescents in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and related demographic and social factors.

Herpes simplex encephalitis in children with autosomal recessive and dominant TRIF deficiency.

Herpes simplex encephalitis (HSE) is the most common sporadic viral encephalitis of childhood. Autosomal recessive (AR) UNC-93B and TLR3 deficiencies and autosomal dominant (AD) TLR3 and TRAF3 deficiencies underlie HSE in some children. We report here unrelated HSE children with AR or AD TRIF deficiency.

The perception of adolescent medicine among health care professionals in Saudi Arabia.

The purpose of this study was to survey a group of Health Care Professionals (HCP) to assess their perception on adolescent health care and the need for dedicated adolescent health care facilities in the country. Cross-sectional, close-ended survey designed and administered to assess several categorical variables, was conducted on 500 HCP selected by a nonrandom quota-based convenience sample. No significant differences were found between different HCP positions with regard to all collected variables.

An unusual case of pyelonephritis in a pediatric renal transplant recipient.

Emphysematous (Gas-forming) pyelonephritis (EPN) is a rare and life-threatening infection of the renal parenchyma with or without involvement of the peri-renal tissues. Diagnosis of this condition is usually made on clinical and radiological grounds. Risk factors for this condition include diabetes mellitus, urinary tract obstruction, renal anomalies such as polycystic kidneys, stones, old age and others.