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Download full textNewton, Bruce W. – HAPS Educator, 2019
The perineal body is located where four muscles (the superficial anal sphincter, the bulbospongiosus and both superficial transverse perineal muscles) have a common insertion at a nondescript point between the vagina or penile bulb and the anus. Health professions students have difficulty identifying its location and do not have a full…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Anatomy, Human Body, Obstetrics
Direct linkKeim, Sarah A.; Harmon, Derek J.; Martindale, James R.; Lopez, Elisabeth N.; Sanky, Charles; Brooks, William S.; Cotter, Meghan M.; Davies, David L.; Doroudi, Majid; Fahl, Jeffrey C.; Farias, Anna; Granite, Guinevere; Harrell, Kelly M.; Kar, Rekha; Kramer, Kenneth L.; Jackson, Jon; Jones, Shiloh; Lackey-Cornelison, Wendy; Laitman, Jeffrey T.; Latacha, Kimberly; Lewis, Steven R.; Lovejoy Mork, Amy; Marzban, Hassan; McNary, Thomas G.; McWhorter, David L.; Merchant, Aftab; Mussell, Jason C.; Quinn, Melissa M.; Reidenberg, Joy S.; Royer, Danielle; Sakaguchi, Alan; Sawyer, F. Kip; Topping, Daniel B.; Wainman, Bruce; Wineski, Lawrence E.; Zumwalt, Ann C.; Hankin, Mark H. – Anatomical Sciences Education, 2023
Clerkships are defining experiences for medical students in which students integrate basic science knowledge with clinical information as they gain experience in diagnosing and treating patients in a variety of clinical settings. Among the basic sciences, there is broad agreement that anatomy is foundational for medical practice. Unfortunately,…
Descriptors: Anatomy, Medical Education, Medical Students, Clinical Experience
Porta, Carolyn M.; Mann, Erin M.; Amiri, Rohina; Avery, Melissa D.; Azim, Sheba; Conway-Klaassen, Janice M.; Golzareh, Parvin; Joya, Mahdawi; Mwikarago, Emil Ivan; Nejabi, Mohammad Bashir; Olejniczak, Megan; Radhakrishnan, Raghu; Tengera, Olive; Thomas, Manuel S.; Weinkauf, Julia L.; Wiesner, Stephen M. – International Journal of Higher Education, 2020
Despite ongoing insecurity, Afghanistan has demonstrated improvement in health outcomes. Reasons for this success include a strategic public-private health service delivery model and investment in Afghan health care workforce development. Afghan universities have the primary responsibility for ensuring that an adequate health care workforce is…
Descriptors: Health Services, Public Health, Delivery Systems, Labor Force Development
Wilson, Keithia L.; Murphy, Karen A.; Pearson, Andrew G.; Wallace, Barbara M.; Reher, Vanessa G. S.; Buys, Nicholas – Studies in Higher Education, 2016
The engagement and retention of commencing students is a longstanding issue in higher education, particularly with the implementation of the widening student participation agenda. The early weeks of the first semester are especially critical to student engagement and early attrition. This study investigated the perceived early transition needs of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Holding Power, Learner Engagement, College Students
Stewart, Sherri L.; Rim, Sun Hee; Gelb, Cynthia A. – Health Education & Behavior, 2012
Effective early detection strategies for ovarian cancer do not exist. Current screening guidelines recommend against routine screening using CA-125 alone or in combination with transvaginal ultrasonography (TVS). In this study, the authors used the 2008 "DocStyles" survey to measure clinician beliefs about the effectiveness of CA-125 and…
Descriptors: Evidence, Physicians, Cancer, At Risk Persons
Peer reviewedYoung, Philip E. – Journal of Medical Education, 1976
The changing social milieu has removed the charity patient but not the need for a teaching population. The University Hospital's program is described, in which patients prepaid a fixed, single fee for all obstetrics-related care through the third post partum day. (LBH)
Descriptors: Financial Support, Health Insurance, Higher Education, Insurance
Barzansky, Barbara; And Others – 1983
An attending tutor program designed to increase faculty-student contact within an Obstetrics and Gynecology clerkship was evaluated. Sessions were observed, written documents were reviewed, and faculty and students were interviewed in order to determine if the program was meeting its goals. Based on the evaluation data, the program was…
Descriptors: Clinical Experience, Credibility, Evaluation Criteria, Gynecology
Gjerde, Craig L.; Sheehan, T. Joseph – 1975
The final report of the University of Connecticut Health Center curriculum project entitled "A Data-Based Approval to Developing a Curriculum" is presented. The aims of the project were these: (1) to develop procedures for judging and cross-judging the goals and objectives of undergraduate medical education; (2) to implement these…
Descriptors: College Administration, Committees, Core Curriculum, Educational Objectives
Bowers, John Z., Ed.; Purcell, Elizabeth F., Ed. – 1980
The state of research in academic obstetrics and its relationship to research in other academic disciplines was addressed in a 1979 conference. Participants included representatives of academic obstetrics, academic pediatrics, and public health. After an introductory discussion by Howard C. Taylor, Jr. on changes in obstetrics in the last 25…
Descriptors: Biology, Family Practice (Medicine), Gynecology, Higher Education
Peer reviewedSpellacy, William N.; And Others – Journal of Medical Education, 1977
Representatives of 108 departments of obstetrics and gynecology completed a written questionnaire in 1976 designed to assess the changes that had occurred in the teaching resources of the departments for the years 1965, 1970, and 1975.
Descriptors: Career Choice, Departments, Gynecology, Higher Education
Pelham, Trena L.; DeJong, Allan R. – Child Abuse and Neglect: The International Journal, 1992
A survey of 81 pediatric and 81 obstetric training programs from 42 states determined that respondents favored screening pregnant patients for cocaine abuse by maternal history (81 percent) and urine toxicology (36 percent), though many fewer reported these as established policy. Physicians favored such interventions as voluntary drug…
Descriptors: Cocaine, Congenital Impairments, Drug Abuse, Intervention
Curran, Vernon R.; Bornstein, Stephen; Jong, Michael; Fleet, Lisa – Online Submission, 2004
(Purpose) This report summarizes a synthesis of the literature related to the evidence, initiatives and approaches to rural/northern medical education, particularly its role in strengthening the medical workforce in rural areas. (Methodology) A literature review was conducted involving the literature databases MEDLINE (January 1990-March 2003),…
Descriptors: Medical Education, Medical Schools, Negative Attitudes, Physicians
Gifford, James F., Jr., Ed.; And Others – 1978
In view of increased public demand since 1965 for medical curriculum re-evaluation, the Duke University School of Medicine offered the first new model of medical education responsive to social pressures for change. The new Duke curriculum included presentation by each basic science department of the core of principles and information considered…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Anatomy, Behavioral Sciences, Biochemistry
