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Background: Hair dye poisoning is the major cause of intoxication in developing countries with high morbidity and mortality rates among the patients. The present study was conducted to determine the clinical presentation, complications and the case fatality rate of hair dye poisoning patients at OHNS (Otolaryngology–Head and Neck Surgery) of Khartoum teaching hospital in Sudan. Methods: This was a fiveyear retrospective study, which was conducted at OHNS of Khartoum Teaching Hospital in...

Background. Dental students are extensively trained to provide dental treatment to their patients during the undergraduate programme. However, no or little time is spent on the training of basic communication skills. Embedding a communication course in the curriculum would require support of the teaching staff and clinical teachers. Objective. To explore the perceptions of the clinical teachers with regard to the teaching and learning of dental student communication. Methods. The study had a...

Background. Numerous articles have been published on the use of autopsies in training medical students in anatomy and different branches of pathology. Some authors have described the emotional response of students who attend such postmortem sessions. Forensic pathology is an important subdivision of pathology. In some countries undergraduate medical students are expected to attend postmortem examinations on persons who died from traumatic causes. Objective. To determine the attitudes and...

Background. Internationally, the development of partnerships between institutions of higher learning and the communities they serve is stressed as a priority. The Umthombo Youth Development Foundation (UYDF) is an educational model developed in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa as a response to the scarcity of medical personnel in hospitals. Community involvement in health professional education has become a key strategy in the model, and review of the model may provide lessons for other...

Background. Student electives during the 5th year of the University of Cape Town (UCT) medical curriculum provide a 4-week work experience in the health system. The reflective reports of past students indicate that the electives may significantly shape their developing identities as health professionals and agents of change. Objective. To better understand how 5th-year medical elective students perceive themselves as agents of change to strengthen the elective programme in the Faculty of...

B ackground. The creating, maintenance and storage of patients’ medical records is an important competence for the professional training of a dental student. Objective. Owing to the unsatisfactory state of dental records at the students’ clinic, the objective of this study was to obtain information from undergraduate dental students on the factors that affect this process and elicit recommendations for improvement. Methods. This qualitative cross-sectional study used focus group discussions...

Background. One of the more discernible needs that challenges universities is addressing the level of preparedness of students entering the higher education environment. Students expect to participate in active learning, while at the same time adopting a certain level of agency to successfully pass through higher education. Objective. To determine the relationship between student preparedness, learning experiences and agency of students in the Faculty of Community and Health Sciences (FCHS),...

The study sought to investigate what students perceive to be effective teaching characteristics of lecturers in the College of Education Studies, University of Cape Coast, Ghana. A survey design was adopted to gather data from the study population (n=4,189) comprised of full-time undergraduate students of the five departments in the college. A multi-staged sampling utilising stratified, quota, and simple random sampling techniques was used to select a sample size of 495 students for the...

Education is considered the main vehicle through which nations are developed. This implies that effective teaching and learning in schools should be enforced to ensure that educational and school goals are achieved for national development. The study was therefore conducted at the Ewusa Demonstration Basic School in the Central Region of Ghana with the aim of describing how teaching and learning is done in the school. The method used was qualitative for both the data collection and analysis....

Moreover, the anesthesia program improved the quality of anesthesia practice at the National Referral Teaching Hospitals. Therefore, the Asmara College of Health Sciences has proved the effectiveness and benefits of running graduate education programs in partnership with stronger universities. Practice Implication: Policy makers who are leading the national tertiary education institutions in Eritrea should strongly support the colleges and institutes to create partnerships to run graduate...

The study presented in this paper examined language-in- education policy in a multilingual international school in Namibia. The central concern of this paper was to find out how language policy addresses possible language conflicts in this school in light of the fact that in studies of language structure, there is a presumption that all languages are equal and in sociolinguistic terms, there is an ecological perception which holds that all languages should be allowed to flourish (Hymes...

It is a known fact that in most West African states and particularly in Nigeria, Indigenous language teaching and language use have suffered serious setbacks. The blame has been put severally. People who had their primary and post-primary education in Nigeria would agree that despite the emphasis laid on the teaching and use of English language in our schools today, a large percentage of school children, and students still fail the subject. This paper examines the barriers to effective...

The purpose of the study was to examine the challenges and prospects of funding post-graduate education and research. The study adopted the descriptive survey design involving the use of quantitative and qualitative methods for data collection.  The sample was 330. This comprised 310 Master of Philosophy Students, 16 Heads of Department of and 4 Deans of Schools of Graduate Studies. Data was collected through questionnaire and interview schedule. The SPSS software was used to analyze the...

Although drought studies have been carried out by many scholars in the Savanna Ecological zone of Nigeria over the years, few if any has been able to carry out the detailed year to year, decade to decade, and subperiod to subperiod analyses of the occurrences of mild and moderate droughts in this region over the years. This is because they are seen as not been destructive and therefore of not interest as the catastrophic extreme drought or the creepy invisible drought. This gap in study is...

Ces dernieres annees, plusieurs chercheurs, groupes de travail et associations (Diethelm et al. 2013; Baude 2013a; Furber 2012; Seehorn et al. 2011) ont lance des appels d’alerte sur la necessite d’accorder une grande attention a l’informatique en tant que matiere obligatoire dans les differents cycles d’enseignement. La tendance actuelle est d’enseigner la pensee informatique et la resolution des problemes des le cycle primaire. Ainsi l’informatique est de plus en plus percue comme une...