Earning opportunities and informal payment as influencing factors in medical students' speciality choice.

Background: The Hungarian primary care system faces a severe shortage of family physicians. Medical students' perceptions of family medicine need to be known and medical students need to be given appropriate and comprehensible information about this speciality. The expected future salary is an important factor in career choice.

[Examination of the health status and health behaviors of Hungarian family physicians].

Összefoglaló. Bevezetés: A családorvosok testi, lelki egészségi állapota hatással van a munkavégzésükre, a betegellátás minőségére, ezáltal a társadalom egészségmutatóira is. Az életmód pedig az egyik legjelentősebb, egészségi állapotot befolyásoló tényező.

[A családorvosok alvási apnoéval kapcsolatos ismeretei és attitűdjei. Megvalósul-e az OSAS szűrése a járművezetők egészségi alkalmasságának vizsgálata során?].

Background And Purpose: Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) without treatment can cause serious cardiovascular, cardiorespiratory, neurological and other complications. Family physicians have an important role in recognizing the disease. The aim of the study is to assess the knowledge and attitude of family physicians related to sleep apnea.

[Opinions of Hungarian family physicians and residents on vocation and informal payment].

Introduction: The changing of the family medicine can be observed in the New Millennium. Migration, the aging of the healers and informal payment are crucial to the human resource crisis of the health sector.

Aim: The aim of this study was to investigate the family physicians' and residents' opinions about the vocation and informal payment.

[Hungarian Society for Sleep Medicine guideline for detecting drivers with obstructive sleep apnea syndrome].

Obstructive sleep apnea is the most frequent sleep-disordered breathing. The prevalence of sleep apnea in the general population is 2-4% and the main characteristics of the disease are the intermittent cessation or substantial reduction of airflow during sleep, which is caused by complete, or near complete upper airway obstruction. Decreased airflow is followed by oxygen desaturation and intermittent arousals.