Means Of Medical Students Research Articles

Quality of Life Related to Environment of Dental and Medical Student’s Life and Its Correlation with Stress

Introduction: The purpose of this study was to investigate the quality of life (QOL) score based on stress scale, the relationship between the two and their influencing factors in medical and dental students of Isfahan University of Medical Sciences.
 Materials and methods: This cross sectional study was carried out on 235 dental students and 488 medical students between April-June 2020. In this study 24 items of physical quality, psychological quality, social quality, environmental quality and 2 general health items related to quality of life and 14 items related to stress level were assessed using the electronic questionnaire of WHOQOL-BREF. The collected data was fed into SPSS and analyzed by ANOVA, T-test, correlation coefficients and linear regression test (α = 0.05).
 Results: The mean for total quality of life was 78.5 ± 14.1 (26-120) and 27.6 ± 7.2 (10-56), respectively. In both professions, the relationship between QOL and total stress showed a significant and inverse relationship (p value < 0.001, r = -0.78). In dental students, four domains and the total score were significantly higher and stress levels were significantly lower compared to medical students. In both professions, women had significantly higher levels of stress than men (p value = 0.03). Based on academic year, in medical students mean for total QOL scores (p value = 0.04), physical (p value < 0.001) and emotional quality (p value = 0.07) were significantly different and while the academic year increased, the QOL scores decreased.
 Conclusion: There is a significant and inverse relationship between QOL and stress level. The level of stress in females is higher than in males and also in medical students than in dental students. The score of quality of life and academic year were inversely correlated.

Elective course “Medicine in Literature” as a means of medical students’ professional ethical culture formation

The article considers the pedagogical conditions that ensure the effectiveness of the formation of professional and ethical culture of students in medical specialties. The medical humanities have an important role to play in the humanization of medical education and practice. The authors believe that humanitarian training of medical students should occupy a sufficient place in their educational process; literature in particular can contribute to the formation of a humane specialist. The role of literature is to develop medical students’ abilities to listen, interpret, and communicate. Besides, literary works stimulate students’ sensitive appreciation of the ethical dimensions of medical practice and their critical thinking skills. These abilities and skills are of significant importance for the patient care quality. The elective course «Medicine in Literature» integrated into the medical education at Lobachevsky University is aimed at fostering necessary in the profession humanistic qualities such as mercy, responsiveness, sympathy, empathy. Conducted questionnaire survey among the medical students at Lobachevsky University proved the necessity of developing of professionally significant humanistic personality qualities through the study of literature.

Innovative Means of Medical Students Teaching through Graphical Methods for Cardiac Data Estimating and Serious Games

Now-a-days non-traditional methods and tools are introduced in the training of medical students which are mediated by the rapid development of information technologies: software training systems, Serious Games, and video materials. The paper presents a software system for the processing and analysis of physiological data, which is suitable for use in the medical students’ training process and a study has been made of the use of serious games in medical education. For optimal work with a software system, a database of cardiac data has been created for healthy individuals and individuals with various cardiac diseases. The established system and the cardiology database can be used by medical doctors to study statistical parameters and graphical cardiac data representation in various diseases. The results obtained from the analysis of the data through graphical methods can be used as an effective visual means for increasing the success of medical students' training. The paper presents the results of a survey of the interest of medical students in higher education Universities in Bulgaria to the inclusion of Serious Games in their medical training. The results show a high interest in game-based learning: by including serious games such as innovative training, it will be possible to build on theoretical education and to increase the efficiency of the education process.

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Plasma catecholamines and lipoproteins in chronic psychological stress.

Changes in plasma catecholamines, lipoproteins and dietary intake were examined in 13 medical students during a 3-month period prior to their examinations, and in 12 controls. In the medical students mean +/- s.e.(mean) plasma cholesterol increased over the study period (3.98 +/- 0.16 v. 4.26 +/- 0.16 mmol/l, P less than 0.05) and this was reflected by a rise in low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (2.53 +/- 0.15 v. 2.71 +/- 0.17 mmol/l, P less than 0.05). Both supine adrenaline (0.45 +/- 0.05 v. 0.70 +/- 0.07 nmol/l, P less than 0.01) and noradrenaline (2.74 +/- 0.18 v. 3.40 +/- 0.31 nmol/l, P less than 0.05) increased over this period. Apart from a decline in the modest alcohol consumption (9.1 +/- 3.45 v. 2.6 +/- 1.4 g/day, P less than 0.02) there was no change in dietary intake in the medical students. There were no significant changes in plasma catecholamines, lipoproteins or dietary intake in control subjects over the study period. Changes in catecholamines and lipoproteins occurring in association with chronic psychological stress may contribute to the increased coronary heart disease mortality associated with Type A behaviour and stressful life events.