[Educational specialists' function in Southern Denmark].

A new educational training concept was introduced with the latest Danish national reform of specialist training of doctors in 2004. We performed a questionnaire survey, the aim of which was to explore the result of the implementation so far and to get ideas facilitating a sharper focus of our efforts to further develop the educational reform. The results showed high commitment within the system and also pointed to management support as an essential prerequisite for job satisfaction.

[Integrated clinical educational project].

This paper describes a two-year postgraduate educational project involving three different clinical departments. The educational climate was enhanced through different interventions, such as training tutors, more effective supervision, improved daily routines, and repeated educational seminars. Evaluation was made by questionnaires involving all physicians once a year.

Validation of the PHEEM instrument in a Danish hospital setting.

The Postgraduate Hospital Educational Environment Measure (PHEEM) has been translated into Danish and then validated with good internal consistency by 342 Danish junior and senior hospital doctors. Four of the 40 items are culturally dependent in the Danish hospital setting. Factor analysis demonstrated that seven items are interconnected.

[The post-thrombotic syndrome. Description and comparison of diagnostic methods: clinical examination, venous return time, phlebography and ultrasonography].

Thirty-one patients with deep vein thrombosis (DVT) confirmed by phlebography 5-11 years previously were examined for the post-thrombotic syndrome (PTS). Where all of the patients were concerned, the examination included crossing-off of their symptoms of PTS on a special chart and clinical examination carried out by four doctors independently of one another, for 29 patients also determination of the venous return time by strain gauge pletysmography and for 29 patients also secondary phlebography (SF) and B-method ultrasonic scanning (UL). The degree of severity of PTS was determined by means of a scoring value which was calculated on the bases of four observers assessment of the clinical symptoms and findings.

Computed tomography in the assessment of seizure-induced supratentorial neuron loss.

Epilepsy patients develop atrophy of the hippocampus and the cerebellum. Because reports exist, in which diffuse atrophy of the CNS of epilepsy patients is mentioned, we wanted to investigate if computed tomography (CT) can demonstrate a decrease of the cerebral volume correlated with the length of time during which the patients have had seizures. We measured the bifrontal ratio, the bicaudate ratio, the lateral ventricular brain ratio, and the sylvian fissure ratio of the CT images of 124 neurologically intact patients with a duration of epilepsy from 3 months to 39 years.