Background The National Medical Commission of India recommends the Family Adoption Program (FAP) under Competency-Based Medical Education (CBME) in the MBBS curriculum. Medical students can witness firsthand the living situations of the people they treat as patients in the hospital through community participation. Students also learn how various health factors impact patients in real-world settings.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: The rise in digital technology use, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic, has heightened concerns about extended "screen time" (ST) among adolescents. Excessive screen use is linked to negative physical and cognitive effects, yet digital media also offers educational and social advantages. Cultivating healthy digital habits is crucial as technology continues to evolve.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To assess whether secondary prevention, which preemptively treats women with above-average postpartum bleeding, is non-inferior to universal prophylaxis.
Design: A cluster-randomised non-inferiority community trial.
Setting: Health sub-centres and home deliveries in the Bijapur district of Karnataka, India.
The objectives of the study were to assess the morbidity and the time taken for the subsidence of symptoms among snakebite victims and study the Interval between snakebite and initiation of treatment It was a hospital based cross-sectional study. Patients were studied at the time of admission and were followed-up until recovery or death. A total of 84 patients were studied between April 2006 and March 2007.
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