NAC OSCE - A Comprehensive Review is a detailed study guide for the Canadian NAC OSCE. This book contains therapeutic guidelines with drug dosages, clinical case scenarios and clinical examinations. The book can be used as a framework, complementing your clinical and therapeutic knowledge as you prepare for the NAC OSCE.

Book highlights:

- Contains management and therapeutic guidelines of over 200 common medical conditions.
- More than 80 Clinical Cases and Examinations most likely to be on the NAC OSCE.
- Easy to remember text boxes containing mnemonics, drug dosages and side effects. www.nacoscereview.com

The agency that accredits hospitals typically informs facilities that they are coming for a visit in advance. This allows administrators to have time to staff the units appropriately and clean the areas for inspection. It has been my observation that this agency rarely makes surprise visits. Hospitals spend billions of dollars lobbying our government to keep healthcare from being regulated. This means no one is watching how they take care of you or your loved one. This guide will help inform you of how to protect yourself from negligence, hospital-acquired infections, inflated billing, and possible wrongful death. It will assist you in understanding various tests, scans, procedures, and medical language.

You need to protect yourself by always asking questions and documenting everything. Take charge of your healthcare. Remember that without you, they would be out of business. You do have choices. If you do not approve of the care that is being provided inform the chief nursing officer, case manager, and social worker. Do not settle for substandard care.

Have you or your loved ones ever been a patient in the hospital or a nursing home? Have you found yourself agreeing with whatever test or procedure the physician orders only to feel frustrated due to lack of understanding of the purpose for the test? Have you felt as if your healthcare providers are speaking a different language?

Patient Empowerment Guide and Journal provides you with the tools that you will need to understand the various tests, scans, procedures, and medical language that is used by your healthcare providers. It includes a written legal journal of what, when, and how activities should be performed. This guide will assist you in reducing the possibility of a hospital-acquired infection, give you a greater understanding of the tests and procedures that are being prescribed for you, and possibly protect your life.

Thirty percent of American adults and children are obese. This is not a joke, and though this is also not a scare tactic, it should be cause for alarm. But please, in responding to the alarm, do not go straight to your surgeon or pharmacologist-there are much, much better ways to stop and even reverse the problem of obesity. In "Obesity: It Might Not Be ALL Your Fault, but It IS Your Problem, " author Dorothy S. Mukherjee, RN, BA, gives us a guide to understanding obesity-its causes and its complications-and she shows us how to manage and address this epidemic. For anyone struggling with obesity or trying to avoid it, as well as for doctors, nurses, and therapists treating obesity, Mukherjee offers a detailed plan of attack, beginning with historical, cultural, and social influences and moving on to the numerous strategies for taking control of obesity and sustaining a healthy way of life. Mukherjee, who has struggled with similar challenges in her own life, writes in a conversational tone that makes even the most technical explanations accessible to everyone, and her activity and calorie charts offer a concrete place for us to begin.The serious medical problems related to obesity and what obesity means to our culture must be addressed. By building on our knowledge of obesity and using methodical, logical approaches, we can reach our desired levels of health and wellness-obesity can be defeated.

As a physician, nurse, veterinarian, dentist, or other health professional, you constantly face the challenge of describing complex ideas or delivering difficult information to laypeople. Whether this involves conveying the risk of a drug or the complexities of a procedure, or simply trying to elicit basic information from a client or patient, this book is designed to help. Concise, practical, and highly accessible, Communication Skills for Medical Professionals offers numerous insights and recommendations on how to establish rapport; overcome the barrier of feelings about unequal power and status in order to make good conversation possible; break down complex ideas into simple, digestible units; discuss risk; and strengthen listening skills. Rich in practical examples, Communication Skills for Medical Professionals is a concise guide to communicating more effectively with laypeople and with your professional peers.

Master's Thesis from the year 2004 in the subject Health Science, grade: sehr gut, University of Bonn (Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultat), 116 entries in the bibliography, language: English, comment: Abschlussarbeit Postgraduiertenstudiengang "Public Health" der Universitat Dusseldorf, abstract: Malaria as a disease of the poorest in the world is on the global agenda. Many different groups take efforts in order to tackle malaria. Facing the fact that mainly children and pregnant women present the biggest problems it is difficult to maintain a logical way in order to improve the malaria situation. Therefore, organization and coordination of the efforts is an area of improvement. For example, various Public Private Partnerships have partly identical missions (e.g. GAVI and MVI), and there is good reason for combining their efforts and save administrative resources. The first step in a logic chain should be to provide better diagnostic features for the correct detection of malaria with the consequence of an adequate treatment. Country surveillance programs need to be set up in order follow resistance patterns, treatment effects, demographic patterns etc. In parallel better therapeutic and preventive measures need to be developed in order to win the race against resistance of vectors as well as parasites. All these efforts need to be planned, coordinated, managed and regulated. This requests one global coordinator with an "umbrella function" that defines rules for all partners involved and manages the cooperation. The umbrella function should sit within a non-profit organization with long-term experience in the field, in other words the UN and more precisely the WHO. Cooperating partners can be of very different origins like industry, governments, private and public foundations, NGOs, etc. Many of these organizations already exist, but their efforts are partly the same, some themes are left out the scope. Therefore, the general recommendation wou

Master's Thesis from the year 2004 in the subject Health Science, grade: sehr gut, University of Bonn (Mathematisch-Naturwissenschaftliche Fakultat), 24 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: The Regulatory Affairs (RA) department is a key discipline in the global network of drug development. During drug development, regulatory strategy is one crucial success factor for the approval of the development candidate. Also, regulatory strategy can optimise labelling in the key countries in order to maximise the market success. No submission and approval would be possible without the appropriate dossier composition and compilation. Without adherence to the respective guidance documents and scientific advice from Health Authorities to design the optimal clinical development plan, optimal labelling would not be feasible. These two examples show some characteristics of the regulatory strategy: it is highly interactive with other disciplines and it is heavily based on a thorough intelligence work which enables the RA Manager to know the "rules of the game" and to develop the optimal regulatory strategy for the current development candidate. The major cornerstone for developing a regulatory strategy is regulatory intelligence. This document focuses on regulatory intelligence. The regulatory contributions to the global drug development from early research to submission are described. Strategies for generic drugs as well as detailed strategies for life-cycle management are excluded. Major components of regulatory intelligence are: Competitor Information Information on Regulatory Environment Information on Legal Requirements Competitor analysis is an essential aspect of the intelligence work. Sources of competitive information as well as relevant items of competitive information are described. Sources of information about the regulatory environment and sources of information about the legal regulatory environment are described and their tremendous impact

If you really want to learn Medical Spanish, there is no better workbook for doing so. Medical Spanish: A Workbook changes all the rules: no boredom with baffling memorizations, no confusion with conjugation after conjugation, and no thinking so much that you just can't get the words to come out of your mouth. This workbook makes learning simple and efficient. Once you master its concepts and content, the words and phrases will flow naturally. You will be able to take a history, perform a physical exam, provide a diagnosis, and implement and explain therapy. Pair it with Medical Spanish: An Audio Companion, Volumes 1 and 2, and you will become nearly fluent in Medical Spanish. Make yourself a far better medical practitioner. And receive tons of gratitude from your Spanish-speaking patients.

Athletes participating in sports requiring overhead motions, such as baseball, softball, volleyball, swimming, water polo, tennis, and various throwing events in track and field, present a challenge to the athletic trainer and sports medicine staff. Areas of concern include excessive anterior joint capsule laxity, posterior joint capsule tightness, limited posterior and anterior shoulder musculature flexibility, strength and endurance imbalances of dynamic stabilizers, mechanical stresses which disrupt normal biomechanics, poor sport-specific mechanics, and abnormal postural alignment, which lead to shoulder instability or impingement. This manual will highlight areas of concerns and present rehabilitation techniques consisting of range of motion and flexibility, strength and endurance, neuromuscular control (closed-kinetic- chain and plyometric training), aquatic therapy, functional progressive activities, and a preventative in-season program.

This resource provides an annotated list of print and electronic biomedical and health-related reference sources, including Internet resources and digital image collections. Readers will find relevant research, clinical, and consumer health information resources. The emphasis is on resources within the United States, with a few representative examples from other countries.

Please select the ONE BEST answer: 1. You are a medical student preparing to take the USMLE Step 1 exam. Which of the following best expresses your innermost thoughts? (A) I hate multiple-choice exams. (B) I wish there were a better way to prepare for the test. (C) I know the material, but I don't do well on standardized exams. (D) I worry about the consequences of not passing. (E) All of the above. Answer: E The multiple-choice question above strikes fear into the heart of every medical student. They must all pass USMLE "board" and NBME "shelf" exams. As a clinical professor who teaches medical students and residents, author Mary K. Miller has seen some of her best and brightest students stumble when taking multiple-choice tests. To help them, she has developed the Aim Your Brain Study System. Her techniques include: " Laying the foundation for how to study for USMLE Step 1; " Using the Aim Your Brain Study System to overcome the "I hate multiple-choice exams" mindset; Helping students overcome test anxiety and other difficult issues.

This book entitled "Textbook of Acupuncture" is written, to help medical professionals and those starting training in Chinese Acupuncture to become acquainted with the distinctive feature of TCM . It is composed of six sections: 1TCM basic theories, 2 the channels and collaterals and their Acupuncture points (Total of 417 Acupoints.), 3Acupuncture techniques, 4Diagnosis, 5Treatment of common disease, 6 Useful Information. This book uniquely occupies that cognitive space between diagnoses, clinical techniques and treatment, helping medical professionals an academic approach to the patients. In this emprise I have strived to abide by following principle: maintaining discipline of TCM, integrity, practicability and adaptability in terms of TCM theory. TCM, which dates back to ancient time, has a unique and profound theoretical system. The greater part of its terminology has particular denotations, and as the matter of fact difficult to understand and translate. Characteristics of this textbook are promoting knowledge of Acupuncture to all medical students and Doctors and other health professionals in easiest method.

Safe sex behaviors towards HIV/AIDS among Myanmar migrants of reproductive aged population in Samutsakhon Province, Thailand were assessed as a cross-sectional study in 2008. Their socio-demographic characteristics, knowledge, perception and cue to action on HIV/AIDS as well as their safe sex behaviors were found out.Safe sex behaviors in this study are no sex with unknown partner, intention of faithfulness to spouse or partner, intention to use condom and consistent condom use.Out of 260 respondents, 69.6% are in moderate level behavior,15.4% in good and 15.0% in poor level. Consistent condom use is 55.8%.Data analysis shows that there were relationship between age, gender, educational level, marital status, occupation, knowledge level, perception level, media, influencing person, experience of seeing AIDS patient factors and safe sex behavior.Health personnel are the most influencing person. Continuation of health education and workplace condom promotion program should be encouraged more. Joint cooperation of local authorities, provincial health office and NGOs must be appreciated more.A further in-depth qualitative study about safe sex behaviors among them should be don

The controlled experiment is highly regarded because its properties permit conclusions with the most scientific rigor. Controlled experimentation is important for the foundation of disciplines that claim to be scientific. It is also important to conduct them properly: they come at a high cost in time, effort and participation; there is an esteem that confers credibility; there is an ethical responsibility to human subjects. However, the quality of controlled experiments performed in health informatics and computer science is often poor; evidence shows that informatics and computing researchers and evaluators need further training in experimental methods. One way to address quality issues is to measure quality. This follows the example of the creation of questionnaire instruments to measure quality of controlled medical trials, which have also had their problems. This book describes the development and use of a questionnaire (the MICE index) to quantify the quality of controlled experiments in informatics that involve human participants. Such a tool will be helpful to those planning or evaluating informatics experiments.

When they prepare for medical school, few candidates take the time to acquire the caliber of recommendation letters they will need to distinguish themselves in a highly competitive applicant pool. This book, which was written by an Ivy League admissions expert, offers detailed advice to write (and get) persuasive letters that highlight the personal, academic and professional strengths the committee expects to see. It also includes 45 successful recommendation letters, including several that "explain" extenuating circumstances in a candidate's history (such as disappointing grades, a gap in employment, and low MCAT scores). At top medical schools, where the competition is fierce, the quality and depth of a candidate's reference letters can make the difference between acceptance and rejection. Whether you are an applicant who needs a persuasive letter of recommendation, or someone who has been asked to write one, this exceptional book is mandatory reading.

Quickly remember the medical and common word parts used to build and create thousands of the terms in a medical dictionary. There's no reason in this book to spend the time studying Latin or Greek word roots but see how often we already know an English word that shares a word part with a medical term that our long-term memory will recall better using word associations. Then, for more long-term memory help, we step way outside the scholastic box and use simple memory techniques that will let anyone with an active imagination remember hundreds of word part meanings years from now. This is a fun and unconventional way to an excellent medical vocabulary any high school or college health science student will enjoy using and remembering for probably the rest of their life.

Explores the social world where abortion politics and mainstream medicine collide. The author interviewed physicians of obstetrics and gynecology around the United States to find out why physicians rarely integrate abortion into their medical practice. While abortion stigma, violence, and political contention provide some explanation, her findings demonstrate that willing physicians are further encumbered by a variety of barriers within their practice environments. Structural barriers to the mainstream practice of abortion effectively institutionalize the buck-passing of abortion patients to abortion clinics. As the author notes, ""Public-health-minded HMOs and physician practices could significantly change the world of abortion care if they stopped outsourcing it."" Drawing from forty in-depth interviews, the book presents a challenge to a commonly held assumption that physicians decide whether or not to provide abortion based on personal ideology. Physician narratives demonstrate how their choices around learning, doing, and even having abortions themselves disrupt the pro-choice/pro-life moral and political binary.|Willing and Unable explores the social world where abortion politics and mainstream medicine collide. The author interviewed physicians of obstetrics and gynecology around the United States to find out why physicians rarely integrate abortion into their medical practice. While abortion stigma, violence, and political contention provide some explanation, her findings demonstrate that willing physicians are further encumbered by a variety of barriers within their practice environments. Structural barriers to the mainstream practice of abortion effectively institutionalize the buck-passing of abortion patients to abortion clinics. As the author notes, ""Public-health-minded HMOs and physician practices could significantly change the world of abortion care if they stopped outsourcing it."" Drawing from forty in-depth interviews, the book presents a challenge to a commonly held assumption that physicians decide whether or not to provide abortion based on personal ideology. Physician narratives demonstrate how their choices around learning, doing, and even having abortions themselves disrupt the pro-choice/pro-life moral and political binary.

Straightforward and to the point, The Easy Way to Pass Step 2 CS: A Practical Guide to Prepare for US Clinical Skills Assessment by award-winning clinical instructor CSA Tutor is the affordable, convenient, and trouble-free way to make the grade. In eleven chapters with titles like, "General Physical Examination," "Central Nervous system," "Musculoskeletal examination," and "Typical Step 2 CS Review Cases," the author wastes no time in directing readers on exactly what they need to know to pass the portion of the US Medical Licensing Examination that assesses a physician's ability to apply their medical knowledge, skills, and understanding of clinical science. With countless images and surefire pointers, readers will feel as if they have a personal tutor and for those physicians, who want to ensure success, CSA Tutor offers a flawless technique. It is a technique that has helped over two thousand students sail through the Step 2 CS exam with flying colors.