Medical Students
Stimulation of medical decision expert system by using of time color Petri net method
... IJCSI International Journal of Computer Science Issues, Vol. 9, Issue 3, No 2, May 2012
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Stimulation of medical decision expert system by using
of time color Petri net method
1
Neda Darvish, 2Khikmat.Kh.Muminov , 3Hoda Darvish
1
Physical-Technical Institute named after S.U.Umarov ... Tajikistan
2
Physical-Technical Institute named after S.U.Umarov of the Academy sciences of the Republic of Tajikistan
Dushanbe, Tajikistan
3
Islamic Azad University, Tehran Medical Branch
Tehran,Iran
Abstract
The role of management science methods in solving the
health problems is a clear potential for improvement. Such
an approach in an advanced ... of system
properties. The modeling is done by using the time
color Petri net method, the complicated system of
decision for solving the management problems and
planning of the medical and nursing service system.
In this research, by using the Matlab software, the
planning of the hospital decision environment is
carried out in order to increase the hospital
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PLoS Medicine— A Medical Journal for the Internet Age.
... 19th and early 20th centuries
independent physicians and small
medical societies, interested in making
the best new medical knowledge
available to doctors, students, and
the public, began to publish general
medical journals containing case
reports, ideas for new treatments, and
the results of medical experiments.
These pioneers took advantage of
the best ... medical journals should not
be accessible to patients because
patients are unable to use the
information effectively, we believe it
is our responsibility as publishers and
members of the medical community
not only to give patients access, but
to provide them with tools to use the
medical literature wisely. Medical
research is a partnership between
medical ... quackish and dangerous. Google
? ?medical? ?? and you get 85 million pages,
“drug,” 40 million, and “health,” 230
million.
But something is conspicuously
missing. The most reliable medical
information on the Internet—the
contents of peer-reviewed medical
journals—is hidden from the public
and most of the world’s physicians.
Although most medical journals are
available
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Department of Surgery, Orthopedics and Traumatology of Faculty of Postgraduate Education SE «Dnipropetrovsk medical academy of Health Ministry of Ukraine»
... ɯɿɪɭɪɝɿʀ, ɬɪɚɜɦɚɬɨɥɨɝɿʀ ɬɚ ɨɪɬɨɩɟɞɿʀ ɮɚɤɭɥɶɬɟɬɭ ɩɿɫɥɹɞɢɩɥɨɦɧɨʀ ɨɫɜɿɬɢ
(ɡɚɜ.- ɞ. ɦɟɞ. ɧ.,ɩɪɨɮ. ȼ.ȱ. Ⱦɟɫɹɬɟɪɢɤ)
ɜɭɥ. Ⱦɡɟɪɠɢɧɫɶɤɨɝɨ, 9, Ⱦɧɿɩɪɨɩɟɬɪɨɜɫɶɤ,49044, ɍɤɪɚʀɧɚ
SE «Dnipropetrovsk medical academy of Health Ministry of Ukraine»
Department of Surgery, Orthopedics and Traumatology of Faculty of Postgraduate Education
Dzerzhinsky str., 9, Dnipropetrovsk, 49044,
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QUESTIONNAIRE FOR STUDENTS FROM FACULTIES OF DENTAL MEDICINE IN BULGARIA REGARDING THEIR MOTIVATION FOR PARTICIPATION IN AND THE WAY THEY ARE FAMILIAR WITH RESEARCH PROJECTS.
... completed by 190 students in
their 4th and 5th year of studying in medical universities in
Sofia, Plovdiv and Varna. Data was collected during the
period from January to May 2013.
Results: In order for us to achieve the goal of this
study we focused on the questions from the questionnaire.
Conclusion: The role that research projects play in
medical universities ... of dental students in research
projects is very important on their undergraduate and
postgraduate success. [3, 1] Also the projects are an
opportunity to develop their clinical competency [4] and to
promote leadership in medical education. [11]
AIM
The purpose of our study is by analyzing data from
our questionnaire to examine the level of students? ?? ... is also interesting – 18.7% of the students give
individual answers different from the proposed ones and those
participants insist on involving other people such as lecturers
not having any academic ranks, consultants, students? ??
representatives, supporting staff representatives (nurses,
sanitary attendants), etc. Students aware that the unit in charge
of
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SMOKING AS A FORM OF DEVIANT BEHAVIOR OF A METROPOLIS’ RESIDENTS (according to a poll conducted among the students of MGSU)
... магистрантов / The students' and postgraduate students' research studies
а б
в
Рис. 1. Результаты первичной обработки данных
Fig. 1. The results of the primary data
социологического опроса студентов МГСУ
processing of the opinion poll of MGSU students
Согласно данным анкетирования, студенты
According to poll data the students
выкуривают ... Situation in MGSU. Data of the opinion poll. The authors held opinion poll among the students of MGSU. 485 people took part in the poll. The general totality of our investigation were young people (first of all the students of technical universities) so we polled the students of the Institute of Construction and Architecture of the Mytishchi branch of ... near the University the non-smoking teachers and students of MGSU have to go through the clouds of cigarette smoke. Even a non-smoking person has to sink into nicotine atmosphere against his or her will. Beginning with 2014 the Federal Law is effective which prohibits smoking on the territory of educational, medical, institutions, institutions of culture
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ANNUAL SCIENTIFIC CONFERENCE OF STUDENTS AND POSTGRADUATES OF KOMSOMOLSK-ON-AMUR STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, SUBPANEL “LINGUISTICS”
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Teaching geometrical principles to design students
... such abstract and technical topics to design students is challenging and we experimented with new approaches for industrial design students (Vlist et al., 2008). In
104
Teaching
geometrical
principles
to
design? ?students? ??
this study, we describe a new method of teaching geometry to industrial design students, but we believe that it can be used ... concepts of math into the real world, so that the students can experience them directly, which provides a tremendous reward to the students.
Keywords:
Design, math, tessellation, Escher, geometry
Introduction
One of design’s main goals is to give form to products and communication. However, most design students approach form intuitively, neglecting ... ARTICLE
Feijs
&
Bartneck
Teaching Geometrical Principles to Design Students
Abstract
Loe Feijs & Christoph Bartneck Department of Industrial Design Eindhoven University of Technology
We propose a new method of teaching the principles of geometry to design students. The students focus on a field of design in which geometry is the design: tessellation.
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PERFORMANCE EVALUATION OF CONTENT BASED IMAGE RETRIEVAL FOR MEDICAL IMAGES
... diagnosis, therapy, medical reference, and medical training. In this paper, an image matching scheme using Discrete Sine Transform for relevant feature extraction is presented. The efficiency of different algorithm for classifying the features to retrieve medical images is investigated.
Keywords: Content based Image Retrieval (CBIR), Medical images, Discrete ... for Medical Images. European
Journal of Scientific Research, 74(2), 286-291. [10] Han, J. G., & Shyu, C. R. (2010). Improving Retrieval Performance in Medical Image Databases Using Simulated Annealing. In AMIA
Annual Symposium Proceedings (Vol. 2010, p. 276). American Medical Informatics Association. [11] K. Rajakumar, “An Integrated Approach for Medical ... retrieval, Euclidian distance method values were calculated between query and database images. This work aims to provide a medical image retrieval system for medical diagnosis.
Quellec et al [8] proposed a CBIR method for diagnosis in medical fields. In this, images are indexed in a generically, without extracting domain-specific features: a signature
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Influence of socio-economic changes on students' health of Siberian Federal University
... життя.
Temnykh A.S., Bogashchenko Yu.A. Influence of socio-economic changes on students? ?? health of Siberian Federal University. The results of statistical researches of morbidity of students of university are presented in times of socio-economic reforms from 1990 to 2011. 1775 students took part in an experiment. The tendency of decline of health of young ... level of motive activity. The annual medical inspection of all of students, engaged in a physical culture and sport is recommended. The necessity of maintainance is marked for an educational process on a physical culture volume of employments in an amount 408 hours on 1, 2 and 3 courses. An increase of activity of students and efficiency of employments ... Aleksandrova L.I. Sravnitel’nyj analiz zabolevanij studentov special’nogo medicinskogo otdeleniia v Sibirskom federal’nom universitete [A comparative analysis of diseases of students of the special medical separation in the Siberian Federal University]. Fizicheskaia kul’tura i sport v sisteme obrazovaniia [Physical culture and sport in the system of education],
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Factors associated with emergency contraceptive use among Female Preparatory Schools Students Adwa Town, Northern Ethiopia. Across sectional study design, 2013.
... students, 1500 of them are females), 3 secondary schools, . Study was conducted from July to June 2013.
Source population
The source population was all female students in both preparatory school of Adwa town The Study population was Female preparatory students selected from the source population with systematic random sampling procedure from the students.
Sampling ... utilization and associated factors among female students in ADWA preparatory schools, Tigray region, Northern Ethiopia.
Specific objective
• To describe magnitude of emergency contraceptive uses among female preparatory school students in Adwa.
• To identify factors associated with emergency contraceptive among female students in Adwa preparatory schools.
Study ... about emergency contraception (20).
A study conducted among college female students in Oromia Regional state, Arsi Zone, Asella town shows 63 % of the students had an intention to use Emergency contraceptive in the future and 2.4% had ever used emergency contraceptive method. Students of age 20 and above years were more likely to have knowledge, among
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An analysis of translation errors made by brazilian students of english
... BRAZILIAN STUDENTS OF ENGLISH
FACULDADE DE LETRAS - UFMÔ 1Q82
AN ANALYSIS OF TRANSLATION ERRORS MADE BY BRAZILIAN STUDENTS OF ENGLISH
Maria da Conceição Magalhães Vaz de Mello Faculdade de Letras Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais Belo Horizonte
Maria da Conceição Magalhães Vaz de Mello
AN ANALYSIS OF TRANSLATION ERRORS MADE BY BRAZILIAN STUDENTS ... to do an analysis of the
errors contained in translations from Portuguese into English
written by Brazilian students. This topic has been chosen for
two main reasons: first, there are few studies of errors made
by Brazilian students in the process of learning English;
second, many language teachers still consider interference from
the ... is concerned,lies in the fact that in composition students try to use the most familiar constructions, whereas in translation they are forced to use the constructions of the original text.
The corpus used in this study consists of fifteen translations from Portuguese into English written by Brazilian students of English as part of the "Lower Cambridge
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CD42.R10: Medical divices
... September 2000
RESOLUTION
CD42.R10
MEDICAL DEVICES
THE 42nd DIRECTING COUNCIL,
Having considered Document CD42/12 on medical devices;
Considering that, in the exercise of the steering role of the health sector, it is an essential function of
the health authority to safeguard the efficacy, safety, and quality of the medical devices utilized by
the health ... recommendations on medical devices contained in Document CD42/12 and to
support the work of PAHO in this field.
2. To support the proposal to form an ad hoc group to promote and facilitate the medical devices
harmonization processes in the Americas.
3. To urge the Member States to:
(a) develop and strengthen their programs for the regulation of medical devices;
(b) ... four study groups, while promoting
the use of GHTF documents in their programs for the regulation of medical devices.
4. To request the Director to continue his support to the governments for the development and
implementation of programs to regulate medical devices and to support the search for sources of
financing for the activities of the proposed
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The relationship of autonomy and integrity in medical ethics
... Medicine and Biomedical
and Behavioral Research. 1983.
Emanuel, L. L., and E. J. Emanuel. The
medical directive. JAh4A 261(22):32883293,1989.
Wojtyla, K. The Acting Person. Dordrecht,
Reidel, 1979.
Marcel, G. Being and Having: An Existentialist Dia y. Harper and Row, New York,
1965, pp. 172-173.
Pellegrino, E. D. Toward a reconstruction
of medical morality: ... respectful of the dignity of
the person of the patient. But autonomy is insufficient to guarantee the nuances and
the full meanings of respect for persons in medical transactions. As a foundation for
medical relationships, the concept of integrity is richer, more fundamental, and
more closely tied to what it is to be a whole human person. So, for reasons ... autonomy in the forefront of medical ethics legally and philosophically:
the Nuremberg
trials; the
worldwide
spread of participatory
democracy; mistrust of authority in general
and technical expertise in particular; the
expansion of public education; the civil
rights movement; the intrusions of law,
economics, and commerce into medical
decisions; and the
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Report of the PAHO Advisory Committee on Medical Research
... implementing
primary health care.
The Committee also heard of steps that have been taken by Mexico
to provide medical students and junior doctors with learning experiences
and service roles more relevant to the nation's health goals, modifying
the medical undergraduate training programs, and using junior doctors in
the practice of family medicine and compulsory ... SPANISH
REPORT OF THE PAHO ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL RESEARCH
The XXIII Meeting of the Advisory Committee on Health Research was
held in Washington D.C., from 4-7 September 1984.
This is the first
meeting in which the Committee meets under this title.
Previously the
title was: Advisory Committee on Medical Research.
Dr. Frederick C.
Robbins was elected ... Pedro Kouri
La Habana, Cuba
*/
Unable to attend
Dr. David Picou
Chairman and Project Manager
Mount Hope Medical Complex
Task Force
63-65 Independence Square
Port-of-Spain, Trinidad
Dr. V. Ramalingaswami+/
Director General
Indian Council of Medical
Research
New Delhi, India
Dr. Frederick C. Robbins*/
President
Institute of Medicine
National Academy
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Report of the PAHO Advisory Committee on medical research
... D.C.
SEPTEMBER1982
Provisional
REPORT
A_enda
Item 24
OF THE PAHO ADVISORY
CSP21/17
(Eng.)
19 July 1982
ORIGINAL_
ENGLISH
COMMITTEE
ON MEDICAL
RESEARCH
The 21st meeting
of the PAHO Advisory Committee
on Medical
Research
(ACMR) was held in Caracas, Venezuela,
April 29-30 1982.
The meeting was chaired by Dr. H. Groot and opened by Dr. S. Paul
Ehrlich,
Jr., ... ..,.
ADVISORY
COMMITTEE
ON MEDICAL RESEARCH
CAaACAe,VZNEZUZZ,
A
REPORTTO THE DIRECTOR
RZF:
PAN AMERICAN
RD/21/4
HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Washington,
D.C.
Pan American
Health
Organization
TWENTY-FIRST MEETING OF THE
PAHO ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL
RESEARCH
Caracas, ... American
Dr.
the important
Chairman
effective
to
Dr. R.F. Badgley
the full range
Members.
that
that
welcomed
Research
remarks
RESEARCH
to the Director
1982
Medical
1982.
OF THE
ON MEDICAL
the Vice-Chairman,
on
ana indicated
MEETING
of
health
in
established,
in
the
he
component
of
the Americas."
projects
Director
pointed
of
Sanitary
out
the
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Textbooks and medical instruments program
... AND MEDICAL INSTRUMENTS PROGRAMS
THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
Having studied the report on financing the programs for medical and
nursing textbooks and for basic diagnostic instruments for medical students
(Document CE74/15);
Recognizing the importance of adequate capital to permit this program
to meet the demand and needs of the medical and nursing students ... countries
based on the estimated number of medical students in their third year. The
cost of equipment represents the amount of capital needed. The immediate
demand is much greater because it involves the students in the third through
seventh years. After the initial accumulated demand is met, it will be largely
limited to students entering their third year. ... principal ($100,000 per year).
The demand curve of book purchases by students is expected to continue rising rapidly until 1977. By that time the proportion of students
buying books is expected to become stabilized so that future increases would
be due primarily to growth in numbers of students, which has been about
15 per cent per year. This increasing
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Financing of the program of textbooks for medical students - Pan American Health and Education Foundation
... PROGRAM OF TEXTBOOKS FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS
THE PAN AMERICAN HEALTH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION,
a non-profit
organization
located in the District of Columbia of the United States of
America, hereafter referred to as "the Foundation",
and
"the
THE PAN AMERICAN
Organization",
medical
HEALTH
ORGANIZATION,
DESIRING to plan and carry
students in the Americas,
out ... I
Objectives
The objective of the textbook program is to improve the quality
and quantity of medical education by promoting the use in all medical
schools of the best available textbooks
in the respective
disciplines.
This activity is part of a larger program of medical education to improve
the health and welfare of the peoples of the Americas.
This joint ... REGIONAL
COMMITTEE
MEETING
WASHINGTON,
D.C.,
SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER
Provisional
Agenda
Item 36
U.S.A.
1970
CSP18/29
(Eng.)
20 September
1970
ORIGINAL:
ENGLISH
FINANCING OF THE PROGRAM OF TEXTBOOKS FOR MEDICAL
PAN AMERICAN HEALTH AND EDUCATION FOUNDATION
STUDENTS
INTRODUCTION
In accordance with Resolution
XXXVl approved by the Directing
at its XIX Meeting the Director has taken action to:
i.
loan
Continue
to
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CD19.R18: Report of the study group on the coordination of the medical care services of ministries of health, social security institutes, and universities
... COORDINATION OF
THE MEDICAL CARE SERVICES OF MINISTRIES OF HEALTH,
SOCIAL SECURITY INSTITUTES, AND UNIVERSITIES
THE 19th DIRECTING COUNCIL,
Having examined the report of the Director of the Pan American Sanitary Bureau (Document
CD19/19, Rev. 1)1 apprising the Directing Council of the Final Report of the Study Group on the
Coordination of Medical Care Services ... Americas may take it into account in organizing their
national health services.
5. To recommend to the Director that he organize zone meetings of senior health, social security,
and medical education officials for the purpose of discussing how and to what extent the
recommendations of the Study Group can be applied in the countries concerned.
Sept.–Oct. 1969
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Perinatal factors affecting human development ; proceedings of the special session held during the 8th meeting of the PAHO advisory Committee on Medical Research, 10 June, Washington, 1969
... Committee on Medical Research
10 June 1969
Scientific Publication No. 185
PAN AMERICAN HEALTH ORGANIZATION
Pan American Sanitary Bureau, Regional Office of the
WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION
525 Twenty-third Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20037, U.S.A.
October 1969
NOTE
At each meeting of the Pan American Health Organization Advisory
Committee on Medical ... ensuing
discussions.
PAHO ADVISORY COMMITTEE ON MEDICAL RESEARCH
Dr. Robert Q. Marston
Director, National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland, U.S.A.
Dr. Hernán Alessandri
Ex-Decano, Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Chile
Santiago, Chile
Dr. Walsh McDermott
Chairman, Department of Public Health
Cornell University Medical College
New York, New York, U.S.A.
Dr. ... Maryland, U.S.A.
Dr. Louis M. Hellman
Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology
State University of New York
Downstate Medical Center
Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
Dr. Joseph Bieniarz
Department of Obstetrics and
Gynecology
Michael Reese Hospital and Medical
Center
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Dr. Wilbur Lawrence Holley
Section on Pediatric Neurology
National Institute
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Coordination between the medical care services of the Ministries of Health and of the social security institutions
... demand
9
5°
Coverageof the population
ll
6° Qualityof medicalservices
12
7o
Cost of medicalservices
13
8o Attemptsat coordination
14
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14
Measuresto improve coordination
The cost and sources of finance
Security
medical
care
lo
of Ministry
and Social
19
Relative importance_of
Ministry and Social Security
expendituresfor medical care
19
2°
The problem of ... which
limits the capacity of institutions
to provide medical service°
Since the
physician is the irreplaceable
element in providing medical care, a brief
analysis of the availability
and utilization
of medical work will give an
idea of the medical care capacity of the countries° In Latin America, there
are at present some 134,000 physicians in professional practice_ ... universality
of medical
care, recognizing
the right to health of all members of society°
In
practice, this is not absolutely
true, inasmuch as persons covered by social
CSP17/DT/1
Page 12
(Engo)
security institutions,
those who can pay for private medical care, those
who belong to mutual cooperatives
and other systems which provide medical
care, members
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CD16.R38: Establishment of official relations with the Pan American Federation of Associations of Medical Schools
... PAN
AMERICAN FEDERATION OF ASSOCIATIONS OF MEDICAL
SCHOOLS
THE 16th DIRECTING COUNCIL,
Having considered Document CE52/6 on the Pan American Federation of Associations of Medical
Schools, and bearing in mind the considerations contained therein;
Having examined the statutes of the Pan American Federation of Associations of Medical Schools;
Bearing in mind the ... American Federation of Associations of Medical
Schools as a nongovernmental organization representing the medical schools in the Americas.
2. To authorize the Director to develop with the Federation, to the extent that financial and
budgetary limitations allow, cooperative activities of mutual interest aimed at strengthening medical
education programs in the
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Study of the relationship between social security medical programs and those of ministries of health or other official health agencies
... July 1965
RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN SOCIAL SECURITY MEDICAL PROGRAMS AM)THOSE OF
MI3ISTRIES OF HEALTH OR OTHER OFFICIAL HEALTH AGENCIES
FINAL REPORT
WASHINGTON, D.C., 12-16 July 1965
STUDY GROUP ON
COORDINATION OF MEDICAL CARE IN LATIN AMERICA
with special emphasis on the
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SOCIAL SECURITY MEDICAL PROGRAMS
AND THOSE OF MINISTRIES OF ... Garcia Valenzuela
Regional Adviser on Medical Care, PASB
Dro Alfredo Leonardo Bravo
Special Consultant,PASB
Dr. Ao Peter Ruderman
Economic Adviser, PASB
Miss Mary Ho Burke
Statistician, PASB
STUDY GROUP ON
COORDINATION OF MEDICAL CARE IN LATIN AMERICA
with special emphasis on the
RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN SOCIAL SECURITY MEDICAL PROGRAMS
AND THOSE OF MINISTRIES ... the transport of sick persons and the concentration of medical resources in large regional hospitals, well equipped
and capable of providing high-quality medical care°
The Group recognized fully that all these plans, which are not
part of the health sector as such and are not in the hands of the medical
profession, nevertheless have an undeniable impact
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Recent medical advances en Argentina
... research; (2) preparation of specialized physicians; (3) preventive medicine
and public health. Every year students are taken on expeditions lasting severa1
weeks, into the sones afilicted by the most endemic diseases, and which have the
lea.4 medical attention.
The Schools of Medicine of Argentina have been gradually preparing for the
training of specialists ... Pierini’s studies on the frequency of pigmentary dermatosis due
to cosmetics (1941).
In Rosario there has been rapid progressin the quality of medical investigations.
Constant improvement has been observed in the various medical branchee, such
as Medicine (Alvarez, Staffieri); Surgery (Carnes, Tejerina); Gynecology (Araya,
Borras); Cardiology (González Sabathié); ... A.
Brandan on “Climatology
of Córdoba Province,” 1940. Brandán has devoted
more attention than any other worker to the medical climatology of Argentina.
It would be impossible to review the developments in Surgery, Obstetrics,
Pediatrics, and the medical (Neurology, Psychiatry, Gastroenterology)
and
surgical (Urology, Ophthalmology, Otorhinolaryngology,
Orthopedics)
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Scientific Institutions in Latin America : The Federico Leeras Institute of Medical Research
... SCIENTIFIC
THE
(INSTITUTO
INSTITUTIONS
IN LATIN
AMERICA
FEDERICO
LLERAS INSTITUTE
MEDICAL
RESEARCH”
OF
FEDERICO LLERAS DE INVESTIGACI6N
Bogo& Colombia
MÉDICA)
Director: Dr. Luis Patiíío Camargo
The Federico Lleras Institute of Medical Research had its beginning
in the Central Laboratory of Leprosy Investigation (Laboratorio Central
de ... Laboratories, Clinic, Administration, Library,
and Museum; a second for hospitalization of patients undergoing experimental treatment, clinical observation, or observation by students;
and a third for laboratory animals. The patients are provided with al1
modern comforts, and are attended by the Institute personnel and by
Sisters of Charity.
Much of ... parts of the building was furnished through the generosity of a
lady of Bogotfi (Srta. Dona Lucy Parga).
The personnel of the Institute includes a Director, Assistant director,
Medical Assistant, Sisters of Mercy and others, and may be increased
by the Ministry of Health, Labor and Social Welfare as the needs require.
The present budget is $30,000.00
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The role of medical anthropology in primary health care
... medical
anthropology-must
be considered. To this end, study of the
ways in which the prevailing folk or traditional medical systems
can interrelate with the Western medical system may be fruitful.
The author introduces some basic concepts of medical
anthropology, particularly
related to the Mexican-United
States
border area.
Begining
about 1950 small numbers
of
anthropologist8
began ... Berkeley,
California.
‘From
Anthropology
335
traditional
medicine-traditional
medical
systems is perhaps a better term-represents
a large number
of independent
lines of
development,
and its practitioners
reflect
far greater
differences
of opinion
about
etiologies
and treatment
than do modern
physicians.
Whereas
there
is a single
modern medical system, there are many traditional
systems.
All traditional
medical systems ... immediate,
and
336
it is never complete. Perhaps it never should
be complete, for no medical system in itself
seems capable of satisfying
every medical
expectation
of all people who have the
opportunity
to utilize it. As traditional
(in
the sense of ancient)
medical
systems decline, new alternative
systems arise to meet
needs that modern medicine
has
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