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A harmonious relationship between doctors and their patients establishes a firm foundation for good practice. Factors that affect such a relationship include communication skills and the language used. Essentially, the language should be clear and comprehensible for both parties. Doctors usually tend to use technical jargons. Since Korean doctors were educated with English textbooks, they are inclined to teach their students in English terms. Their use of old medical terms makes communication with their patients very difficult. Such language impediment complicates matters when doctors have to answer the patients' questions and ask detailed questions about their condition. And it is not only in the use of English where communication problems arise between doctors and patients. Most of these problems can also be traced to the use of old medical terminologies originating from the difficult Chinese characters. The Korean medical community has been conducting a campaign to replace existing difficult medical terms with plain Korean, Hangul terms. Particularly, members of the board of medical education are expected to make active use of the new terms in their teaching fields, in writing research papers, and in their clinical practice.
Asian Continental Ancestry Group ; Education, Medical ; Humans ; Writing

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Education, Medical*

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Audiovisual Aids*

Korean Society of Medical Education was organized in May, 1983 to help and encourage its members to do various medical education researches and share the study results through formal and informal society's academic activities. For several years, however, there has been no activity until the society was reorganized in March 1989. Since then, the society has already held two conferences together with seminars and one workshop and publishes journal once in every 6 months. To meet the need of members and their interests, the secretariat of the Society planned a questionnaire survey on society's future academic activities. A simple questionnaire containing questions of selected individual characteristics together with the number of academic meetings the members want to have every years, and the particular area of interests they have in relation to medical education. One hundred and twenty members out of 280 returned the questionnaires and the major results obtained from the analysis of those questionnaires are as follows. 1. Of all respondents, 116 were male and only 4 were female. Most of the respondents were in the age group of 40s and 50s (75.8%), and have been engaged in medical education for more than 10 years (70.9%). 2. 66.7% of the respondents wanted to have one conference per year whereas 33.3% wanted 2 conferences per year. This difference was not statistically different by selected personal characteristics such as sex, aged and years of teaching. 3. Five major areas of interests of the respondents were setting objectives of medical education (33.3%), student evaluation (30.8%), medical ethics education (30.0%), teacher evaluation (29.2%), and the national physicians licensure examination (28.3%). The areas of interests were slightly different among different age groups, years of teaching, and between those in basic medical science and in clinical science. One of the things this study suggests is that the society focuses more basic field of medical education such as setting goals of medical education and developing better methodology of student evaluation.
Congresses as Topic ; Education ; Education, Medical ; Ethics, Medical ; Female ; Humans ; Licensure ; Male ; Surveys and Questionnaires

Fixation failure is a major complication of intertrochanteric fracture. The causes of fixation failure were assessed in a series of 80 patients with intertrochanteric fractures, which had been internally fixed with either a sliding hip screw or a Gamma interlocking nail. The overall rate of fixation failure was 16.3%, in which the cutting-out of the implant from the femoral head was the only cause of the instance. The cutting-out rate was influenced by the accuracy of fracture reduction, the position of implant placement within the femoral head, and the bone mineral density. Anatomical reduction and the central placement of implant within the femoral head showed the most excellent results compared to other treatment modalities. Age, gender, fracture type and a kind of fixation implant had no significant effect. Our results showed that the intertrochanteric fractures should be reduced as anatomically as possible and it is essential that the central placement of the implant within the femoral head be obtained.
Bone Density ; Head ; Hip ; Hip Fractures* ; Humans