Publications by authors named "Magdy Hassan Balaha"
COVID-19 (Coronavirus) went through a rapid escalation until it became a pandemic disease. The normal and manual medical infection discovery may take few days and therefore computer science engineers can share in the development of the automatic diagnosis for fast detection of that disease. The study suggests a hybrid COVID-19 framework (named HMB-HCF) based on deep learning (DL), genetic algorithm (GA), weighted sum (WS), and majority voting principles in nine phases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: All medical schools in Saudi Arabia have English as the primary official medium of instruction. Most of the high school education, however, is delivered in Arabic and hence the transition to an English based learning environment tends to be difficult for some students. Our study aims to correlate English language proficiency with academic performance among medical students in their preparatory year.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: We recently adopted a competency based curriculum based on the CanMEDs model. This shift required the cross-mapping of all key CanMEDs competencies with the competencies for higher education in Saudi Arabia as per the Saudi National Commission for Academic Accreditation & Assessment (NCAAA) guidelines.
Objectives: To formulate competencies for our curriculum and to create a framework aligned with NCAAA, CanMEDs and Saudi Meds.
Conflict Of Interest: NONE DECLARED.
Background: By knowing the different students' learning styles, teachers can plan their instruction carefully in ways that are capitalized on student preferences. The current research is done to determine specific learning styles of students.
Background: In surgical wards, it is of paramount importance to communicate with other health care providers, mostly physicians, referring patients to them for their consultation on any health conditions that affect pre-operative, operative and post-operative patient care. The purposes of this investigation were to assess the appropriateness of physician responses in medical consultation reports and compare physician responses when using these reports from different levels of health care providers.
Methods: This study was conducted in Al-Hufuf, Saudi Arabia.
Background: Birth defects and inborn errors of metabolism are related to variable poor perinatal and neonatal outcomes. Our aim was to explore the pattern and prevalence of birth defects and metabolic birth errors in Al-Ahsa Governorate in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
Methods: This retrospective case control study was done from April 2006 to 2009.
Background: Cancer of the cervix has been considered as one of the preventable cancers. This study is the first published research addressing the screening of cancer of the cervix in the eastern region of Saudi Arabia.
Aim: This study aims to detect the prevalence of abnormal epithelial changes and its types in the eastern region of Saudi Arabia.
Objective: There is no research on the predictors of birth defects in Al Ahsa Governorate in the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia. The aim of this research was to detect the predictors of isolated structural birth defects in live births.
Methods: We conducted this study from April 2006 to 2010.
Background: The premenstrual syndrome (PMS) is particularly common in the younger age groups and, therefore represents a significant public health problem in young girls. This study aims to estimate the prevalence, severity, determinants of premenstrual syndrome (PMS) and its impact among the female medical students in Al-Ahsa, Saudi Arabia.
Methods: This study was performed at the College of Medicine, King Faisal University, Saudi Arabia, from June through December 2009.