Publications by authors named "N Bakirci"
Article Synopsis
- Physician immigration to developed countries is on the rise, but the reasons behind Turkish physicians' migration are still not well understood.
- A study of 9,881 senior medical students in Türkiye showed that 70.7% intend to emigrate, with about 60% wanting to stay abroad permanently.
- The main factors influencing their decisions include poor working conditions in Türkiye and a desirable social environment abroad, along with concerns about medical school quality significantly impacting their emigration intentions.
Non-pharmaceutical interventions (NPIs) implemented to mitigate the COVID-19 pandemic halted everyday life in higher education along with social and psychological impacts. The objective of our study was to explore the factors related to sense of coherence (SoC) from a gender perspective among university students in Turkey. This is a cross-sectional survey conducted online with a convenience sampling method as part of the international COVID-Health Literacy (COVID-HL) Consortium.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFSimulation of pandemics in real cities: enhanced and accurate digital laboratories.
Proc Math Phys Eng Sci
January 2021
Article Synopsis
- The study creates a modeling framework to simulate how infectious diseases spread in real cities by digitally replicating Birmingham (UK) and Bogotá (Colombia), including their environments and populations.
- It uses both predictable and random movement patterns of digital inhabitants to replicate real-life interactions, simulating millions of encounters and disease spread over extended periods with high-performance computing.
- The model effectively mirrors actual COVID-19 data for both cities and serves as a virtual laboratory for policymakers to explore and assess the impact of various epidemic containment strategies.
Background: Ethics teaching is globally considered an essential part of medical education fostering professionalism. It does not only provide knowledge for good clinical conduct, but also trains medical students as virtuous practitioners. Although Turkey has had a considerable experience in ethics education of healthcare professionals, the general state of ethics curricula at medical schools in Turkey is unknown.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPerchlorate, nitrate, and thiocyanate are competitive inhibitors of the sodium iodide symporter of the thyroid membrane. These inhibitors can decrease iodine uptake by the symporter into the thyroid gland and may disrupt thyroid function. This study assesses iodine status and exposure to iodide uptake inhibitors of non-pregnant and non-lactating adult women living in three different cities in Turkey (Istanbul, Isparta and Kayseri).
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