Specialty choices among new generation of doctors - insights from a Polish survey study.

The choice of medical specialty for future doctors is a multidimensional issue, associated with many factors. This study aimed to explore the factors influencing the specialty choices of doctors entering the Polish healthcare system. A nationwide cross-sectional survey was conducted from May until August 2023.

Is geriatric medicine teaching homogeneous? The analysis of geriatric medicine courses at Polish undergraduate medical programmes.

Purpose: We aimed to analyse the characteristics of geriatric courses offered to undergraduate medical students in higher educational institutions (HEIs) in Poland.

Methods: We searched the official websites of the HEIs offering the medical degree programmes and directly contacted the dean's offices and HEIs representatives to retrieve the relevant information. The documents were analysed for course content, teaching methods, duration, and recommended texts.

Are Polish doctors ready to start working right after graduation? The 2023 modification to physicians' postgraduate internship and possible paths forward.

The Polish healthcare system faces many problems, among which the shortage of healthcare professionals is one of the most urgent. In less than ten years, more than twenty Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) have been allowed to add medical programmes to their offer, aiming to increase the number of doctors in Poland. Recently, the healthcare system was faced with a proposal to abolish the mandatory postgraduate internship which has been a mandatory component of medical training for years.

A comparison of curricula at various medical schools across the world.

B a c k g r o u n d: Medical education has changed in response to scientific advances and social needs. A i m: The aim of the study was to examine curricula of medical schools around the world and to observe the trends that currently dominate in medical education. M e t h o d: We have collected information on the current curricula of various medical schools using their official websites.

Disease burden in older Ukrainian refugees of war: a synthetic reanalysis of public records data.

Background: Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine on Feb 24, 2022, more than 6 million Ukrainians, including hundreds of thousands of older people, have sought safety abroad. Older people generally have a higher burden of disease than younger people and the aim of our study was to estimate this burden in older Ukrainian refugees, given the potential financial and logistical impacts on the health-care systems of receiving countries.

Methods: On May 20, 2022, we searched the official websites of the Polish Ministry of Digitisation for data on Ukrainian refugees who had applied between Feb 24, 2022, and May 19, 2022 for a Polish personal identification number (PESEL).

High compliance to ERAS protocol does not improve overall survival in patients treated for resectable advanced gastric cancer.

Introduction: The ERAS (Enhanced Recovery after Surgery) protocol revolutionized perioperative care for gastrointestinal surgical procedures. However, little is known about the association between adherence to the ERAS protocol in gastric cancer surgery and the oncological outcome.

Aim: To explore the relation between adherence to the ERAS protocol and the oncological outcome in gastric cancer patients.

Acceptance of a potential major bleeding among patients with venous thromboembolism on long-term oral anticoagulation: the knowledge of the disease and therapy matters.

Background: We investigated the bleeding tolerance and its determinants in anticoagulated patients with venous thromboembolism (VTE).

Methods: In 153 outpatients after VTE which occurred in the absence of any identifiable risk factor (aged 52 ± 15.7 years, 54.

Faster fibrin clot degradation characterizes patients with central pulmonary embolism at a low risk of recurrent peripheral embolism.

It is unclear whether thrombus location in pulmonary arteries is associated with particular clot characteristics. We assessed 156 patients following either central or peripheral pulmonary embolism (PE). Plasma clot lysis time, the rate of D-dimer release from plasma clots (D-D) with the maximum D-dimer concentration achieved (D-D), as well as fibrin formation on turbidimetry, plasma clot permeation, thrombin generation, and fibrinolytic parameters were measured 3-6 months after PE.