Browsing by Subject "Education"
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(2010)Objectives: To test the hypothesis that an inverse association exists between socio-economic position and all-cause mortality in a developing country in Latin America. Study design: Prospective cohort study carried out in ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2012)Background: The interests that motivate medical students to study this career are diverse and they may change during the seven years of study. In Chile, 22 universities offer medicine and the number of graduated students ...
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(Sage Publications, 2018)This article arose from our interest in investigating our own teaching practices at three universities in Northern Chile. The aim was to generate a deeper understanding of our roles as models for our students, and by using ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2014)In medical education there has been increasing emphasis on faculty development programs aimed at the professionalization of teaching and increasing students’ learning. However, these programs have been shown to have an ...
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(Sociedad Medica de Santiago, 2016)© 2016, Sociedad Medica de Santiago. All Rights Reserved.Background: To establish an educational environment that ensures the quality of the teaching-learning process is a challenge for any educational institution. The ...
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(Elsevier, 2020)Growing numbers of children across the world start non-maternal care in the first year of life. However, few studies have described how different infant care experiences may relate to later child cognitive, language and ...
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(2002)The objective of the present study was to investigate the inter-relationships between nutritional status (past and current nutrition), brain development, and scholastic achievement (SA) of Chilean high-school graduates ...
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(2000)Computer skills are valuable assets for medical students. A survey was conducted among the 283 students of the University of Chile Medical School at the East Campus and 90% answered the survey. Of these, 75% own a computer ...
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Parental attitude and practice regarding physical punishment of school children in Santiago de Chile (1995)Four hundred and twenty-three parents from two free, nonconfessional, public schools placed in medium and low income areas, and 104 parents from a private, for-pay Catholic school in a medium and high income zone filled ...
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(2009)Background: Dementia is becoming a major public health problem in Latin America (LA), yet epidemiological information on dementia remains scarce in this region. This study analyzes data from epidemiological studies on the ...
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(1999)Multiple-choice questions (MCQs) (one-best-answer type, with five alternatives) used for assessment of fifth-year medical students in the Pediatrics course are thoroughly discussed and analysed with the students after each ...
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(Elsevier Ireland Ltd, 2014)Background: Little is known about the association between alcohol-attributable mortality and small area socioeconomic variables when considering causes both wholly and partially attributable to alcohol. Methods: An ecological ...
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(Sociedad Médica de Santiago, 2018-03)Semiotics and Semiology share a similar etymology and meaning: the study of signs. In Medicine, signs are objective manifestations of disease, as opposed to the subjective nature of symptoms. Medical semiology comprises ...
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(2007)Background: The socioeconomic position (SEP) and educational level of individuals have an inverse correlation with mortality in developed societies. Aim: To assess in a society undergoing a socioeconomic transition, the ...
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(2013)Background: Clinical reasoning is the most important competence in the training process of a physician. Aim: To develop a method for teaching clinical reasoning based on prototypes of clinical cases. Material and Methods: ...
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(Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud, 2014)© 2014, Organizacion Panamericana de la Salud. All rights reserved. The purpose of this article is to review the main ideas of doctor Abraham Horwitz’s thinking (1910-2000), who dedicated all his life to public health, ...
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(2009)There is concern about the possible consequences caused by the proliferation of private Medical Schools in Chile. Most of these schools have consolidated as health professional training centers, but its presence is changing ...
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(2011)Several institutions, such as the Ministry of Health, Universities, the Chilean Medical Association, Scientific societies and public opinion, recognize that there is a deficiency of specialized physicians in Chile. To ...