Medical students as family-health advocates: Arabian Gulf University experience.

Background: The Arabian Gulf University is a coeducational Islamic institution in the Kingdom of Bahrain sponsored by the Gulf Cooperative Council. The College of Medicine follows a problem-based curriculum in which science is integrated with professional skills and a community-health programme, comprising of maternal and child health, family studies, and population-health research. The family-studies programme requires all third-year students to complete a wide series of activities under family-physician supervision.

Drug prescribing indicators in primary health care centers in Bahrain.

Objective: To estimate drug use indicators in primary health care centers in the Ministry of Health, Bahrain.

Methods: Four out of 20 primary health care centers in Bahrain were selected and prescriptions of one day (July 30, 2003), were collected, reviewed and analyzed.

Results: The study showed that the average number of drugs per encounter was 2.