Yes From my personal experience as a medical student, and former medical officer in primary health centres, I feel there is an urgent need for changing the structure of the current medical curriculum.

Bedside cardiac assessment (BCA) involves gathering a patient's medical history, performing a physical examination, and determining the need for diagnostic testing. Physicians integrate this ...

Today's doctor visits look and feel a lot different than they did even just a couple decades ago. Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news updates. Rushed physicians and medical ...

An event last week on cancer imaging, led by patients for patients, embodied the ethos of ‘bench to bedside and back again’ – researchers, clinicians and patients working together, and learning from ...

An explosion of technology since the 1980s has led to a decline in the doctor’s traditional art Clinical ‘skills’ are seldom acquired from textbooks. These are passed on to young doctors by their ...

Successfully treating chronic pain is challenging, as patients respond heterogeneously to analgesic treatments. Such variation in response can be attributed to differing underlying pain-generating ...

In 2009, researchers compared maternal complications of delivery and stratified the complication rates into quintiles of residency programs based on where the delivering obstetrician completed their ...

Increased workload, clerical demands, high-patient volumes and staffing issues can limit doctors’ and attending physicians’ availability to fully engage and prioritize connectivity with patients.