QScience Highlights

Highlights

QScience Highlights showcases the most exciting research published in the different QScience journals. The research highlights are informative articles that cover interesting research and are accessible to the wider science community and a general audience interested in science. With regular monthly updates, this is the place to keep up with the best research published at QScience.

Emergency ultrasound training needs review

3 January 2017

Standards for emergency ultrasound training of medical residents may be in need of review.

Developing culture-appropriate student assessments

31 December 2016

An international tool for assessing students of health professions has been modified to address contextual, cultural and resource considerations for Qatar University students of pharmacy.

Mobile apps in trauma education

30 December 2016

Several mobile applications are available as educational tools in the field of pre-hospital trauma life support (PHTLS), but there is room for improvement.

Giving cancer patients the support they need

30 November 2016

Female cancer patients in Qatar believe psychosocial support is important for their wellbeing.

Kuwait’s on-going debate on gender-segregation in schools

30 November 2016

Gender segregation in schools, in addition to self-esteem and factors that affect it, could impact Kuwaitis’ relationships with peers of the opposite sex.

Examining Qatar’s history in folk medicine

30 November 2016

An open-access digital repository offers researchers a glimpse into Qatar’s history of folk medicine.

Manipulating away the dizziness

29 November 2016

Doctors need to be more aware about an easily treated condition that causes intense bouts of dizziness.

The now and then of translated feminism

31 October 2016

Translating feminist discourse in India and the Arab world has been burdened by a common post-colonial experience.

The decision to transfuse

30 October 2016

Understanding how physicians decide when to give trauma patients blood transfusions could aid in the development of evidence-based guidelines.

Mouths wide open: A rare case of dislocated jaw

30 October 2016

A rare case has been reported in Oman of a toddler unable to close her mouth due to non-trauma-related dislocation of the jaw joint.

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