Global ETD Search
Search theses and dissertations gathered from participating repositories worldwide. Every result links back to the library that holds it. No account is needed.
Results
Showing 1 to 20 of 15542 for “"Medical"”.
-
Medical ethics and the regulation of medical practice with particular reference to the development of medical ethics within the British Medical Association 1832-1993
… and to catalogue the issues discussed within the medical ethics committee (and its predecessors) and the decisions reached. In some cases a total record is supplied and in others, because of the volume of data, a sampling system has been employed. This analysis, together with the study of four …
-
Open Design and medical products : An Open Medical Products methodology.
… the conceptualisation, design and development of medical products for those who are excluded by their chronic health condition. The research was directed according to the Action Research methodology outlined by Checkland & Holwell (1998); Action Research being highlighted by Archer (1995) as a …
-
The Medical Record
A collection of personal essays, “The Medical Record” is an exploration of my life in medicine. It has three primary goals. First, to portray an accurate account of my training and practice as a female physician, with all its difficulties and rewards, through interrogating real and false narratives …
-
Medical image enhancement
Each image acquired from a medical imaging system is often part of a two-dimensional (2-D) image set whose total presents a three-dimensional (3-D) object for diagnosis. Unfortunately, sometimes these images are of poor quality. These distortions cause an inadequate object-of-interest presentation, …
-
The Dublin Medical Press and medical authority in Ireland 1850 -1890
… in the lives of the public and, as the Dublin Medical Press indicates, it bolstered the perception of the medical practitioner as moral guardian of society in general. This thesis is not a study of the medical profession in Ireland in the nineteenth century. Though the structures and the …
-
Medical workforce development in New Zealand: insights from a medical programme
… Zealand (NZ) has a reputation for excellence in medical education and training, and the cost-effectiveness of its health system. Like other Western countries, it is facing an immediate and major medical workforce crisis that is set to last for years. With little extra money available for …
-
Medical education and the importance of teaching medical teachers about teaching
This is an overview of medical education today. It deals with tertiary education matters pertinent to medical schools in South Africa, the forces that will inevitably cause medical education to change and the responses of other countries to similar circumstances. These forces are medical, …
-
Using High-fidelity Medical Simulation to Assess Critical Thinking in Medical Students
… development of critical thinking skills during medical school is important to meet this societal need and for the care of ill patients. Research shows this skill is key in decreasing medical errors, which in turn decreases cost. (Norman and Eva, 2010) Missing from the literature is a method to …
-
Comparison of B.A. /M.D. Program Medical Student Performance With Traditional Medical Students
Recommendations include culturally sensitive interventions with Asian students, under represented minority students, and rural students, all of whom performed worse than the control group at times. Study of Asian students in particular is recommended, as they make up the vast majority of GPPA …
-
Medical Engineering and Medical Physics: Metagenomic Sequencing for Viral Diagnostics and Discovery
The application of metagenomic sequencing is transforming microbiology by directly interrogating the entire community composition of a clinical sample in an unbiased manner, reducing reliance on culture-dependent approaches. In concert with the advent of next generation sequencing (NGS) …
-
Modelling medical diagnostic processes
The thesis investigates the development of medical reasoning processes and how student modelling of such processes can be achieved in intelligent tutoring systems. The domain of orthopaedics was chosen for the research. Literature has shown that medical reasoning has been modelled mainly from an …
-
Medical careers and coaching
Research in the medical careers field in the UK tends to concentrate on career destinations for doctors and is used as an input into workforce planning by the Department of Health. Changes to medical career pathways, introduced by the Modernising Medical Careers programme, have brought into focus …
-
English-Khmer medical dictionary
… study in lexicography in the form of a bilingual medical dictionary, containing approximately 1,500 entries. The methodology followed in this study was mainly first-hand field work in conjunction with native speakers of Khmer in the country of Cambodia for a period of over one year (including …
-
Bantu medical folk-lore
… large field for investigation and record of the Medical Folk Lore of the Bantu Tribes; which was becoming more and more difficult of attainment as time went on; owing to the fact that the true unsophisticated native was rapidly becoming a thing of the past, or if one may put it so, becoming …
-
Medical abstract inference dataset
… a dataset for predicting clinical outcomes from medical abstracts and their title. Medical Abstract Inference consists of 1,794 data points. Titles were filtered to include the abstract's reported medical intervention and clinical outcome. Data points were annotated with the interventions effect …
Page 1 of 778