Effect of a workshop in rational pharmacotherapy for interns during family medicine clerkship in Samsun- Turkey.

Objective: We aimed to investigate the effect of rational pharmacotherapy workshop for interns on the rationality, cost and number of drugs prescribed.

Methods: The participants were asked to prescribe a medication for acute noninflammatory osteoarthritis (ANOA), acute bacterial rhinosinusitis (ARS), acute otitis media (AOM), acute uncomplicated cystitis (AC), and acute bacterial tonsillopharyngitis (ABT) before and after workshop. Total 3000 prescriptions were scored regarding rationality of the drug choice (0-10), format (0-5), instructions (0-4), legibility (0-1) and total (0-20 points).

Women's perceptions and attitudes about cervical cancer in Turkey: Kato's device as an alternative to the Pap smear.

Aims: To determine the status of women's perception and attitudes about cervical cancer and their thoughts on Kato's self-sampling device.

Materials And Methods: This descriptive research was conducted between July- December 2012 with a study populationof married women older than 18 years.

Results: A total of 246 women volunteered, with a mean age of 34.

Teaching medical students how to break bad news: a Turkish experience.

Background: To assess the effect of teaching breaking bad news.

Methods: The session incorporated brainstorming, presentation, discussion, small-group exercises using standardized patients. Course was evaluated through a pre-objective structured clinical examination (OSCE), first post-OSCE (post-OSCE1), second post-OSCE (post-OSCE2) (6th month), and questionnaires.

Factors affecting choice of specialty among first-year medical students of four universities in different regions of Turkey.

Aim: To determine the factors affecting medical students' choice of the specialty of family medicine.

Methods: The study was conducted in the period from 2004-2006 and comprised 770 first-year medical students from Ondokuz Mayis, Karadeniz Technical, Kocaeli, and Adnan Menderes Universities, Turkey. The questionnaire included questions on demographic data and 6 "yes/no" or open-ended questions on students' career aspirations and the specialty of family medicine.

A case-control study on the etiology of urinary bladder cancer in Istanbul, Turkey.

Background: Urinary bladder cancer is the third leading cancer in male in Turkey. The incidence rates of bladder cancer are 13.0 and 2.

Psychotropic drugs in pregnancy: a case-control study.

Psychotropic drug exposure during pregnancy is a common problem. Among the 601 cases exposed to drugs during pregnancy, who were followed by our Toxicology Information and Follow-up Service, 124 cases had used psychotropic drugs for depression, anxiety, or psychotic disorders. As the control group, 248 women, who did not use any drugs were selected.