Category: Research Articles
Barriers and facilitators of professional autonomy of clinical…
Religious, economic, political, social, and cultural factors influence professional autonomy in nursing, and differ from country to country. The aim of this study was to explain barriers and facilitators of professional autonomy in the experience of clinical nurses. This qualitative study was con...
Unjust exclusion from medical education of medical teachers…
I would like to bring to the notice of academia and the public the plight of medical teachers (unjustly called “non-medical teachers”) with MSc (Faculty of Medicine) and PhD (Faculty of Medicine) qualifications, who are being systematically excluded from teaching posts by the erstwhile Medical Co...
Essays by and for Amit Sengupta — A…
This is a valuable commemorative collection of essays by the late Dr Amit Sengupta on healthcare policy issues and by some of his colleagues in the People’s Health Movement (PHM) on Amit’s contribution to the PHM. A trained medical doctor, Amit was a leading political activist of the Indian and g...
Evaluation of retracted publications in Dentistry: A systematic…
Background: The objective of retracting flawed publications is to maintain the integrity of scientific literature. Retractions in the dental literature have been on the rise in recent years. Hence, we aimed to review retracted articles related to dentistry. Methods: A search was conducted of the...
Does BAMS stand for Bachelor of Ayurveda and…
The Gazette of India: Extraordinary published "The National Commission for Indian System of Medicine Notification." on February 17, 2022 [1]. This official document of the Government of India is worrying as it institutionalises a world view that has been gradually turning the ancient science of A...
Views of the taught and the teachers on…
Medical or clinical ethics provides guidance for health practitioners and has, hopefully, been taught to medical students during training. The teaching of clinical/medical ethics is more important in the current times because of advances in medical science and the different cultural and socioeco...
Remembering Paul
Much has been written, and much will be written, about Paul Farmer whose sudden passing on February 21, at the age of 62 has left legions of people bereft. This is my personal eulogy to a man I knew for about a decade, most closely since I joined the Department he chaired at Harvard Medical Schoo...
Effectiveness of healthcare ethics training in the undergraduate…
Conventional medical education does not provide adequate training to undergraduates to resolve healthcare-related ethical dilemmas. This quasi-experimental study using a pre-post design was conducted to assess knowledge, attitudes and practices in healthcare ethics (HCE) and evaluate the effectiv...
Response to Nikhil Govind – What is a…
The editorial by Nikhil Govind in the Indian Journal of Medical Ethics is disturbing because of its epistemological connotations [1]. In this rejoinder, I will not address the merits or demerits of indigenous traditions in medicine, or homeopathy (which, though not an indigenous tradition is part...
How trainee doctors and nurses react to simulated…
Medical and nursing students may have to face healthcare-related violence, especially now as they may be doing clinical duty during the Covid-19 pandemic. This study was conducted to analyse the perceptions and attitudes of medical and nursing students towards violence against healthcare workers ...
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