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BMC Med Educ
January 2025
Departamento de Biomedicina da Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade do Porto, Porto, Portugal.
Introduction: Chronic pain negatively impacts on quality of life and is often underreported and undertreated. Therefore, it is essential for medical schools to provide education in pain management for students. This study evaluated the current state of pain education in the Portuguese medical schools, focusing on integrating pain-related topics into the curriculum.
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November 2024
Department of Community Medicine, CMH Lahore Medical College and Institute of Dentistry, Lahore, Pakistan.
Objective: To measure the readiness for self-directed learning among medical undergraduates of private and public medical colleges, and to evaluate their performance and strategies.
Methods: The cross-sectional study was conducted in Lahore, Pakistan from February to July 2023, and comprised medical undergraduate students of either gender from 1 private and 1 public academic institution. Data was collected using a prevalidated structured questionnaire having self-management, desire for learning, and self-control domains to explore self-directed learning readiness.
Curr Res Parasitol Vector Borne Dis
October 2024
Joint Research Unit Animal, Health, Territories, Risks, Ecosystems (UMR ASTRE), French Agricultural Research Centre for International Development (CIRAD), National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment (INRAE), Montpellier, France.
Ticks are important zoonotic disease vectors for human and animal health worldwide. In Europe they are the principal vector of public health importance, responsible for Lyme disease, the most prevalent and widespread tick-borne disease (TBD). Tick presence and TBD incidence are increasing, questioning the effectiveness of existing surveillance systems.
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October 2024
Department of Nuclear Medicine, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India.
Introduction: Plasma cell-free DNA (cfDNA) estimation offers a non-invasive method to potentially diagnose, monitor, and prognosticate patients with malignancy. This prospective study aimed to assess plasma cfDNA levels in patients with differentiated thyroid cancer (DTC) to determine its role in predicting disease status in the post-operative setting.
Materials And Methods: This was a single-center prospective observational study conducted at a public medical research university and hospital in New Delhi, India.
Nutrients
October 2024
Department of Hygiene and Epidemiology, Faculty of Health Sciences, Medical University of Lodz, Żeligowskiego 7/9, 90-647 Lodz, Poland.
Background/objectives: The aim of this work was to understand the factors influencing the prevalence of dietary behaviors, as well as determinants of unhealthy eating and diet quality among primary care physicians and nurses in Poland.
Methods: A cross-sectional study involving 161 doctors and 331 nurses was conducted in the years 2020-2022 in primary healthcare settings.
Results: Unhealthy eating habits affected GPs aged 40-54 years (42.
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