A Homemade, Cost-Effective, Realistic Pelvic Exam Model.

Audience: This innovation is intended to instruct medical students, residents of all levels, and mid-level practitioners.

Background: Pelvic examinations are essential components to clinical practice but are challenging to teach, learn, and practice on live patients secondary to patient comfort because this is an invasive procedure.1 Resident physicians and medical students traditionally learn these methods through observation while actively working in their department or clinics.

[Impact of climate changes on the incidence of tick-borne encephalitis in the Czech Republic in 1982-2011].

Study Objective: To analyse the impact of climate changes on the increase in human cases of tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) in three high-incidence regions of the Czech Republic over the period 1982 to 2011.

Material And Methods: Data on TBE cases were derived from the national reporting system EPIDAT. TBE is a reportable infectious disease in the Czech Republic.

Correlation between meteorological factors and tick-borne encephalitis incidence in the Czech Republic.

The objective was to discover whether there any demonstrable relationships exist between the incidence of human tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) cases and current meteorological factors and to specify their character. Epidemiological data were extracted from the EPIDAT database (National Institute of Public Health, Prague). Analyzed were a total of 4,613 TBE cases registered in the whole Czech Republic (1994-2001) and 4,637 cases registered in the territory of Bohemia (1994-2004).

Risk assessment and prediction of Ixodes ricinus tick questing activity and human tick-borne encephalitis infection in space and time in the Czech Republic.

Present risk assessment and prediction of future risk of humans exposed to Ixodes (I.) ricinus tick attacks and, consequently, to tick-borne encephalitis (TBE) virus infection as one of the basic preconditions for successful TBE prevention has been intensively studied in the Czech Republic. An atlas of TBE in the Czech Republic containing predictive maps of I.