Category: Research Articles
Is delayed regulation of yoga and naturopathic medicine…
The combined discipline of Yoga & Naturopathy (Y&N) constitutes one of the official indigenous medical systems under the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga & Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha, Sowa-Rigpa, and Homoeopathy (AYUSH), Government of India (GoI). The GoI has recently regulated all the systems under AY...
Effectiveness of teaching medical ethics to medical students…
Medical ethics education along with attitude and communication training has been incorporated into the regular MBBS curriculum in India from 2019, so as to encourage a caring and communicative approach by doctors towards patients. It would be important to understand the relevance of the education...
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...
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