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Journal of Rehman Medical Institute, Apr 18, 2021
Introduction: The lecture is fast disappearing as a mode of instruction due to reported insuffici... more Introduction: The lecture is fast disappearing as a mode of instruction due to reported insufficient lesson retention by students, even though it offers an equitable delivery platform while saving time and costs of learning. The present study was conducted to determine post-lecture content retention by medical students, using the End-of-Lesson-Assessment (EOLA) as a tool. Materials & Methods: An EOLA program was initiated at Rehman Medical College, Peshawar, since its inception in 2010 for all LGF sessions. Teachers wrote detailed lesson plans based on learning objectives and included Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and Short Answer Questions (SAQs) to be attempted by students as EOLA. The Department of Medical Research (DMR) offers an elective program to undergraduate medical students, the course content of which includes Large Group Format (Lectures), Small Group Format (SGF), Research Projects, Report Writing and Publications. The present survey is based on the results of 50% ra...
Journal of Rehman Medical Institute, 2017
Rehman Medical College (RMC) was established in 2010 as a project of the Rehman Medical Institute... more Rehman Medical College (RMC) was established in 2010 as a project of the Rehman Medical Institute (RMI), a tertiary care hospital in the private sector, based in the city of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa (KP), Pakistan. The college is commissioned and recognized to impart the five-year MBBS program, as per guidelines of the Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PMD currently MBBS programs for years 1–5 are being conducted. The Vision of RMC regarding undergraduate medical education revolves round the concept of producing physicians of excellence who shall demonstrate humane and empathetic behavior to their clients, sick or otherwise. The Mission of RMC is to train students through a research-intensive , student-based curriculum that shall promote leadership, collaborative discoveries and innovation. This mission will improve community health though their graduates who shall be cognizant of the needs of the community, hence, acting as good role models. In line with the mission statement...
Journal of Rehman Medical Institute
Introduction: In 2014, Rehman Medical Institute (RMI), Peshawar introduced Executive Health scree... more Introduction: In 2014, Rehman Medical Institute (RMI), Peshawar introduced Executive Health screening in a designated setting, offering detailed health check-up, diagnostic screening and reporting with counselling regarding risks. Initially packages were named as Gold, Silver and Know Your Heart. In 2016 it was observed that the packages were not addressing the age and gender wise issues and were being utilized as per affordability of clients. Hence as per international guidelines new packages were introduced which were age and gender specific. This study was conducted to evaluate the utilization, outcome and clients’ satisfaction. Materials & Methods: The data were collected from June 2018 to July 2019 from clinical record of Executive Health checkup RMI. It is a descriptive study, based on secondary data. Study has various variables including socio-demographic, health alarms / concerns of patients, screening investigations done, and illnesses identified. Through SPSS version 20 Da...
Journal of Ayub Medical College, 2014
Although admission criteria are standardized by Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PM&DC), medica... more Although admission criteria are standardized by Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PM&DC), medical colleges can conduct aptitude tests as admission criteria. The present study aimed to determine the correlation of Rehman Medical College's (RMC) admission criteria with students' academic performance in the Khyber Medical University (KMU) First Professional Part-1 examinations. A descriptive study was done at RMC from December 2012 to March 2013 based on computerized records of first and second year MBBS students (years 2010 and 2011; 100 students per year). Students who dropped out or were stricken off from RMC before the university exam were excluded. Pearson's correlation coefficient was calculated by using SPSS-15. For 2010, highest correlation was observed between combined marks of all admission criteria components and KMU professional examination (r=0.466, p<0.001) followed by RMC aptitude test (r=0.424, p<0.001). For females, combined marks of admission criter...
Journal of Ayub Medical College, 2014
A positive learning environment and quality of course content have an imperative role in academic... more A positive learning environment and quality of course content have an imperative role in academic achievement of students. This study aims to assess students' point of view about the quality of education and social environment of a public sector medical college in Pakistan. Relative scarcity of data from students' perspective merited this study. A cross-sectional survey was undertaken at Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad, Pakistan, including 300 medical students from all five years of the MBBS course. Systematic random sampling was used with a kth interval of 4 for each class. Self-administered questionnaire was used and contained items related to academics, learning environment, learning resources, teaching methodologies and student-friendly activities. The data were analysed using SPSS-16. There were 265 respondents (88.3%) to the questionnaire with males accounting for 58.9% (n=156). In general students showed satisfaction with quality of content being taught; however ther...
Journal of Ayub Medical College
Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC, 2002
BACKGROUND Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) may be easily confused with other chest diseases during i... more BACKGROUND Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) may be easily confused with other chest diseases during its initial presentation. This study was carried out to identify presenting clinical and laboratory features that differentiate PTB from other diseases and to correlate clinical features and laboratory findings. METHODS This study was carried out at the Department of Pulmonology, Ayub Teaching Hospital Abbottabad, from September 1999 to December 2000. A total of 46 patients were included in the study after being clinically diagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis. These patients were subjected to detailed history taking recording age, sex, weight, socioeconomic status and smoking habits. They were clinically evaluated and laboratory tests including Hemoglobin, ESR, TLC, DLC and sputum for AFB were done. They were put on standard antituberculous therapy and followed from 2 to 5 months to monitor treatment effect. Statistical analysis was performed by SPSS 8 computer program. RESULTS A bimodal p...
Journal of Rehman Medical Institute
A brief overview is presented of the global experience with the Novel Coronavirus 19 pandemic and... more A brief overview is presented of the global experience with the Novel Coronavirus 19 pandemic and disease (COVID-19) that produced an unanticipated and unprecedented storm in the global equilibrium. The pandemic is described as an external and internal storm, with resultant damage to global and personal health and lifestyles. The mechanisms and implications of the resulting crisis are also touched upon in brief.
This is an analysis of 35 salivary gland tumours from local tumour registry 1 showing early age f... more This is an analysis of 35 salivary gland tumours from local tumour registry 1 showing early age female predilection. Twenty out of 35 (57.14%) cases were female. 15/35 (42.86%) cases were male. The ages ranged between 15 to 80 years with maximum number of cases (21/35, 60%) in the age group below 40 years and mostly female (57%).
Journal of Ayub Medical College Abbottabad, 1998
65 cases of thalassaemia major were selected out of 300 cases of anaemia(21.667c) admitted to Pae... more 65 cases of thalassaemia major were selected out of 300 cases of anaemia(21.667c) admitted to Paediatric Unit A in Women and Children Hospital, Abbottabad since June 1995, based on their family history clinical data, laboratory investigations and X-ray analyses. Most of them were between 1-5 years of age. No difference was noted between the two sexes. Parental consanguinity was present in 49.237c of cases and non-consanguinity in 24.617c, whereas data was not available in 26.157c. of cases. All the patients had moderate to severe anaemia and failure to thrive as their presenting symptoms. Other predominant associated features were splenomegaly(907c), typical facies (607c), skull changes on X-rays(607c), hepatomegaly (45%), jaundice(107c) and repeated infections such as gastroenteritis, pneumonia, etc. Some of them, particularly older children having received multiple blood transfusions, presented with complications such as viral hepatitis, congestive cardiac failure (4.617c) and dia...
Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC, 2006
BACKGROUND The DNA Methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) gene has been implicated as a mutagen for tumor su... more BACKGROUND The DNA Methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) gene has been implicated as a mutagen for tumor suppressor genes by causing hypermethylation and subsequent TA mutations of CpG islands located in the promoter regions of these genes. The present study was undertaken to determine if increased DNMT1 gene activity correlated with increased aberrant p53 gene expression in human lymphomas. METHODS The study was undertaken on randomly selected archival human lymph nodes comprising 50 normal or reactive lymph nodes and 50 lymphoma lymph nodes. These were subjected to Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH) using oligonucleotide Antisense probes for the DNMT1 and the p53 mRNA according to standard FISH protocols. Percent cells stained, mean 'dots' stained per cell and staining signal intensity were taken as the criteria for comparing control and lymphoma lymph nodes. Quantitation of probe signals was done both by manual visualization of fluorescent signals and computer based image ana...
Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC, 2016
BACKGROUND Patients with Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment develop raised intraocular pressure (I... more BACKGROUND Patients with Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment develop raised intraocular pressure (IOP) when they undergo pars plana vitrectomy with silicone oil. The present study was done to document changes in IOP with silicone oil and after its removal. METHODS The interventional study was conducted at Eye department of Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar, from August 2012 to July 2014 on 30 patients with Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in whom pars plana vitrectomy with silicone oil injection was indicated. IOP readings were obtained on 1st postoperative day, at one month and at 6 months; the silicone oil was removed after the third reading and the IOP readings obtained after 2 weeks. RESULTS Of the 30 patients selected for the study, there were 25 (83.3%) males and 5 (16.7%) females with ages ranging from 12-80 years (mean age 41.83±21.43 years). The mean of three pre silicone oil removal IOP readings was 27.35±9.20 mmHgwhich was reduced to a mean of 16.10±6.14mmHg following the rem...
Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC, 2004
BACKGROUND The DNA Methyltransferase 1 (DNMTI) gene is among the better known 'epigenetic'... more BACKGROUND The DNA Methyltransferase 1 (DNMTI) gene is among the better known 'epigenetic' systems that can regulate normal and abnormal gene expression as well as create 'hot spots' for DNA mutations. Its role has been studied in a number of malignancies with important implications for involvement in early events of malignant transformation. The present study describes the findings with respect to expression of this gene in human lymphomas studied by Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH). METHOD The study was undertaken on randomly selected archival human lymph nodes comprising 50 specimens of normal or reactive lymph nodes and 50 specimens of lymphoma lymph nodes. These were subjected to FISH using oligonucleotide Antisense probes for the DNMT1 mRNA according to standard FISH protocols. Percent cells stained, mean 'dots' stained per cell and staining signal intensity were taken as the criteria for comparing control and lymphoma lymph nodes. Quantitation ...
Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC, 2008
Introduction: The training of medical students involves incremental interaction with patients in ... more Introduction: The training of medical students involves incremental interaction with patients in both hospital and community environments, some aspects of which may not be acceptable to patients, especially females of rural communities. The present study was undertaken to identify issues related to such interaction in a rural outreach program of Rehman Medical College, Peshawar. Materials & Methods: The cross sectional descriptive study was undertaken in April 2015 during the community outreach program of final year MBBS students of Rehman Medical College deployed in Nahaqi Emergency Satellite Hospital (NESH) of Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Patients of both genders visiting the Out Patient Department (OPD) were interviewed through convenience sampling, based on a semi-structured questionnaire containing open and closed ended questions in the local language (Pashto) after obtaining informed consent. Data were analyzed by SPSS 15.0 for descriptive statistics; the Chi Square test was...
Journal of Contemporary Medical Education, 2020
Background: Mini-CEX is a formative assessment tool that is implementable, feasible, and acceptab... more Background: Mini-CEX is a formative assessment tool that is implementable, feasible, and acceptable for undergraduate work place based assessment. It also impacts future practice outcomes for graduates who have undergone Mini-CEX assessment in undergraduate training. Objective: To evaluate the outcomes of undergraduate Mini-CEX training in graduates of Rehman Medical College (RMC) posted at two affiliated teaching hospitals of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Methodology: The cross sectional study was conducted at Rehman Medical College, Peshawar and its two affiliated teaching hospitals from January to February 2017 through universal sampling to include 96 house officers (48 RMC graduates having Mini-CEX experience, and 48 graduates of other medical colleges without Mini-CEX experience), and their 12 clinical consultants. Two questionnaire-based surveys (faculty and graduates), were conducted to evaluate clinical performance, utilizing Kirkpatricks model for evaluation. Dat...
BACKGROUND Domestic or Interpersonal Violence (IPV) remains a major global problem often resultin... more BACKGROUND Domestic or Interpersonal Violence (IPV) remains a major global problem often resulting in morbidity and mortality. The present study was conducted to determine the scope of deaths related to domestic violence in the Khyber Pakhunkhwa province, Pakistan. METHODS Data were collected on all reported female fatalities due to domestic violence for the years 2009-2011 from the records of the department of Forensic Medicine, Khyber Medical College Peshawar for analysis. RESULTS A total of 305 deaths were reported, showing an increasing trend of 115 deaths for 2009-10 and 190 deaths for 2010-2014. The majority, 182 (59.7%) belonged to the rural areas and 123 (40.3%) to urban areas of the province. Victims were generally of the younger age groups (17% below age 16 and 42.3% between 17-32 years). Homicide was the manner of death in 293 (96.1%) while the most common causative agent was firearm injury (235, 77.1%). Head and neck injuries were most common (52.6%) followed by the ches...
Journal of Rehman Medical Institute, Apr 18, 2021
Introduction: The lecture is fast disappearing as a mode of instruction due to reported insuffici... more Introduction: The lecture is fast disappearing as a mode of instruction due to reported insufficient lesson retention by students, even though it offers an equitable delivery platform while saving time and costs of learning. The present study was conducted to determine post-lecture content retention by medical students, using the End-of-Lesson-Assessment (EOLA) as a tool. Materials & Methods: An EOLA program was initiated at Rehman Medical College, Peshawar, since its inception in 2010 for all LGF sessions. Teachers wrote detailed lesson plans based on learning objectives and included Multiple Choice Questions (MCQs) and Short Answer Questions (SAQs) to be attempted by students as EOLA. The Department of Medical Research (DMR) offers an elective program to undergraduate medical students, the course content of which includes Large Group Format (Lectures), Small Group Format (SGF), Research Projects, Report Writing and Publications. The present survey is based on the results of 50% ra...
Journal of Rehman Medical Institute, 2017
Rehman Medical College (RMC) was established in 2010 as a project of the Rehman Medical Institute... more Rehman Medical College (RMC) was established in 2010 as a project of the Rehman Medical Institute (RMI), a tertiary care hospital in the private sector, based in the city of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtoonkhwa (KP), Pakistan. The college is commissioned and recognized to impart the five-year MBBS program, as per guidelines of the Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PMD currently MBBS programs for years 1–5 are being conducted. The Vision of RMC regarding undergraduate medical education revolves round the concept of producing physicians of excellence who shall demonstrate humane and empathetic behavior to their clients, sick or otherwise. The Mission of RMC is to train students through a research-intensive , student-based curriculum that shall promote leadership, collaborative discoveries and innovation. This mission will improve community health though their graduates who shall be cognizant of the needs of the community, hence, acting as good role models. In line with the mission statement...
Journal of Rehman Medical Institute
Introduction: In 2014, Rehman Medical Institute (RMI), Peshawar introduced Executive Health scree... more Introduction: In 2014, Rehman Medical Institute (RMI), Peshawar introduced Executive Health screening in a designated setting, offering detailed health check-up, diagnostic screening and reporting with counselling regarding risks. Initially packages were named as Gold, Silver and Know Your Heart. In 2016 it was observed that the packages were not addressing the age and gender wise issues and were being utilized as per affordability of clients. Hence as per international guidelines new packages were introduced which were age and gender specific. This study was conducted to evaluate the utilization, outcome and clients’ satisfaction. Materials & Methods: The data were collected from June 2018 to July 2019 from clinical record of Executive Health checkup RMI. It is a descriptive study, based on secondary data. Study has various variables including socio-demographic, health alarms / concerns of patients, screening investigations done, and illnesses identified. Through SPSS version 20 Da...
Journal of Ayub Medical College, 2014
Although admission criteria are standardized by Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PM&DC), medica... more Although admission criteria are standardized by Pakistan Medical & Dental Council (PM&DC), medical colleges can conduct aptitude tests as admission criteria. The present study aimed to determine the correlation of Rehman Medical College's (RMC) admission criteria with students' academic performance in the Khyber Medical University (KMU) First Professional Part-1 examinations. A descriptive study was done at RMC from December 2012 to March 2013 based on computerized records of first and second year MBBS students (years 2010 and 2011; 100 students per year). Students who dropped out or were stricken off from RMC before the university exam were excluded. Pearson's correlation coefficient was calculated by using SPSS-15. For 2010, highest correlation was observed between combined marks of all admission criteria components and KMU professional examination (r=0.466, p<0.001) followed by RMC aptitude test (r=0.424, p<0.001). For females, combined marks of admission criter...
Journal of Ayub Medical College, 2014
A positive learning environment and quality of course content have an imperative role in academic... more A positive learning environment and quality of course content have an imperative role in academic achievement of students. This study aims to assess students' point of view about the quality of education and social environment of a public sector medical college in Pakistan. Relative scarcity of data from students' perspective merited this study. A cross-sectional survey was undertaken at Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad, Pakistan, including 300 medical students from all five years of the MBBS course. Systematic random sampling was used with a kth interval of 4 for each class. Self-administered questionnaire was used and contained items related to academics, learning environment, learning resources, teaching methodologies and student-friendly activities. The data were analysed using SPSS-16. There were 265 respondents (88.3%) to the questionnaire with males accounting for 58.9% (n=156). In general students showed satisfaction with quality of content being taught; however ther...
Journal of Ayub Medical College
Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC, 2002
BACKGROUND Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) may be easily confused with other chest diseases during i... more BACKGROUND Pulmonary tuberculosis (PTB) may be easily confused with other chest diseases during its initial presentation. This study was carried out to identify presenting clinical and laboratory features that differentiate PTB from other diseases and to correlate clinical features and laboratory findings. METHODS This study was carried out at the Department of Pulmonology, Ayub Teaching Hospital Abbottabad, from September 1999 to December 2000. A total of 46 patients were included in the study after being clinically diagnosed as pulmonary tuberculosis. These patients were subjected to detailed history taking recording age, sex, weight, socioeconomic status and smoking habits. They were clinically evaluated and laboratory tests including Hemoglobin, ESR, TLC, DLC and sputum for AFB were done. They were put on standard antituberculous therapy and followed from 2 to 5 months to monitor treatment effect. Statistical analysis was performed by SPSS 8 computer program. RESULTS A bimodal p...
Journal of Rehman Medical Institute
A brief overview is presented of the global experience with the Novel Coronavirus 19 pandemic and... more A brief overview is presented of the global experience with the Novel Coronavirus 19 pandemic and disease (COVID-19) that produced an unanticipated and unprecedented storm in the global equilibrium. The pandemic is described as an external and internal storm, with resultant damage to global and personal health and lifestyles. The mechanisms and implications of the resulting crisis are also touched upon in brief.
This is an analysis of 35 salivary gland tumours from local tumour registry 1 showing early age f... more This is an analysis of 35 salivary gland tumours from local tumour registry 1 showing early age female predilection. Twenty out of 35 (57.14%) cases were female. 15/35 (42.86%) cases were male. The ages ranged between 15 to 80 years with maximum number of cases (21/35, 60%) in the age group below 40 years and mostly female (57%).
Journal of Ayub Medical College Abbottabad, 1998
65 cases of thalassaemia major were selected out of 300 cases of anaemia(21.667c) admitted to Pae... more 65 cases of thalassaemia major were selected out of 300 cases of anaemia(21.667c) admitted to Paediatric Unit A in Women and Children Hospital, Abbottabad since June 1995, based on their family history clinical data, laboratory investigations and X-ray analyses. Most of them were between 1-5 years of age. No difference was noted between the two sexes. Parental consanguinity was present in 49.237c of cases and non-consanguinity in 24.617c, whereas data was not available in 26.157c. of cases. All the patients had moderate to severe anaemia and failure to thrive as their presenting symptoms. Other predominant associated features were splenomegaly(907c), typical facies (607c), skull changes on X-rays(607c), hepatomegaly (45%), jaundice(107c) and repeated infections such as gastroenteritis, pneumonia, etc. Some of them, particularly older children having received multiple blood transfusions, presented with complications such as viral hepatitis, congestive cardiac failure (4.617c) and dia...
Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC, 2006
BACKGROUND The DNA Methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) gene has been implicated as a mutagen for tumor su... more BACKGROUND The DNA Methyltransferase 1 (DNMT1) gene has been implicated as a mutagen for tumor suppressor genes by causing hypermethylation and subsequent TA mutations of CpG islands located in the promoter regions of these genes. The present study was undertaken to determine if increased DNMT1 gene activity correlated with increased aberrant p53 gene expression in human lymphomas. METHODS The study was undertaken on randomly selected archival human lymph nodes comprising 50 normal or reactive lymph nodes and 50 lymphoma lymph nodes. These were subjected to Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH) using oligonucleotide Antisense probes for the DNMT1 and the p53 mRNA according to standard FISH protocols. Percent cells stained, mean 'dots' stained per cell and staining signal intensity were taken as the criteria for comparing control and lymphoma lymph nodes. Quantitation of probe signals was done both by manual visualization of fluorescent signals and computer based image ana...
Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC, 2016
BACKGROUND Patients with Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment develop raised intraocular pressure (I... more BACKGROUND Patients with Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment develop raised intraocular pressure (IOP) when they undergo pars plana vitrectomy with silicone oil. The present study was done to document changes in IOP with silicone oil and after its removal. METHODS The interventional study was conducted at Eye department of Lady Reading Hospital Peshawar, from August 2012 to July 2014 on 30 patients with Rhegmatogenous retinal detachment in whom pars plana vitrectomy with silicone oil injection was indicated. IOP readings were obtained on 1st postoperative day, at one month and at 6 months; the silicone oil was removed after the third reading and the IOP readings obtained after 2 weeks. RESULTS Of the 30 patients selected for the study, there were 25 (83.3%) males and 5 (16.7%) females with ages ranging from 12-80 years (mean age 41.83±21.43 years). The mean of three pre silicone oil removal IOP readings was 27.35±9.20 mmHgwhich was reduced to a mean of 16.10±6.14mmHg following the rem...
Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC, 2004
BACKGROUND The DNA Methyltransferase 1 (DNMTI) gene is among the better known 'epigenetic'... more BACKGROUND The DNA Methyltransferase 1 (DNMTI) gene is among the better known 'epigenetic' systems that can regulate normal and abnormal gene expression as well as create 'hot spots' for DNA mutations. Its role has been studied in a number of malignancies with important implications for involvement in early events of malignant transformation. The present study describes the findings with respect to expression of this gene in human lymphomas studied by Fluorescent In Situ Hybridization (FISH). METHOD The study was undertaken on randomly selected archival human lymph nodes comprising 50 specimens of normal or reactive lymph nodes and 50 specimens of lymphoma lymph nodes. These were subjected to FISH using oligonucleotide Antisense probes for the DNMT1 mRNA according to standard FISH protocols. Percent cells stained, mean 'dots' stained per cell and staining signal intensity were taken as the criteria for comparing control and lymphoma lymph nodes. Quantitation ...
Journal of Ayub Medical College, Abbottabad : JAMC, 2008
Introduction: The training of medical students involves incremental interaction with patients in ... more Introduction: The training of medical students involves incremental interaction with patients in both hospital and community environments, some aspects of which may not be acceptable to patients, especially females of rural communities. The present study was undertaken to identify issues related to such interaction in a rural outreach program of Rehman Medical College, Peshawar. Materials & Methods: The cross sectional descriptive study was undertaken in April 2015 during the community outreach program of final year MBBS students of Rehman Medical College deployed in Nahaqi Emergency Satellite Hospital (NESH) of Charsadda, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Patients of both genders visiting the Out Patient Department (OPD) were interviewed through convenience sampling, based on a semi-structured questionnaire containing open and closed ended questions in the local language (Pashto) after obtaining informed consent. Data were analyzed by SPSS 15.0 for descriptive statistics; the Chi Square test was...
Journal of Contemporary Medical Education, 2020
Background: Mini-CEX is a formative assessment tool that is implementable, feasible, and acceptab... more Background: Mini-CEX is a formative assessment tool that is implementable, feasible, and acceptable for undergraduate work place based assessment. It also impacts future practice outcomes for graduates who have undergone Mini-CEX assessment in undergraduate training. Objective: To evaluate the outcomes of undergraduate Mini-CEX training in graduates of Rehman Medical College (RMC) posted at two affiliated teaching hospitals of Peshawar, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Methodology: The cross sectional study was conducted at Rehman Medical College, Peshawar and its two affiliated teaching hospitals from January to February 2017 through universal sampling to include 96 house officers (48 RMC graduates having Mini-CEX experience, and 48 graduates of other medical colleges without Mini-CEX experience), and their 12 clinical consultants. Two questionnaire-based surveys (faculty and graduates), were conducted to evaluate clinical performance, utilizing Kirkpatricks model for evaluation. Dat...
BACKGROUND Domestic or Interpersonal Violence (IPV) remains a major global problem often resultin... more BACKGROUND Domestic or Interpersonal Violence (IPV) remains a major global problem often resulting in morbidity and mortality. The present study was conducted to determine the scope of deaths related to domestic violence in the Khyber Pakhunkhwa province, Pakistan. METHODS Data were collected on all reported female fatalities due to domestic violence for the years 2009-2011 from the records of the department of Forensic Medicine, Khyber Medical College Peshawar for analysis. RESULTS A total of 305 deaths were reported, showing an increasing trend of 115 deaths for 2009-10 and 190 deaths for 2010-2014. The majority, 182 (59.7%) belonged to the rural areas and 123 (40.3%) to urban areas of the province. Victims were generally of the younger age groups (17% below age 16 and 42.3% between 17-32 years). Homicide was the manner of death in 293 (96.1%) while the most common causative agent was firearm injury (235, 77.1%). Head and neck injuries were most common (52.6%) followed by the ches...