Browsing by Author "de Silva, N*."

Challenges in medical education to enhance quality in medical care

de Silva, N*. (College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka, 2007)

Challenges in recruting older twins for the Sri Lankan twin registry

Sumathipala, A.; Sribaddana, S.H.; Abeysingha, N.M.; de Silva, N*.; Fernando, D.J.; Dayaratne, D.A.; de Silva, D.; Warnasuriya, N.D.; Hotopf, M. (Australian Academic Press, 2003)

The National Twin Registry of Sri Lanka was established in 1997 as a volunteer register. To extend it to a population-based register, we examined the effectiveness of tracing older twins by inspecting birth records and ...

Clinical audit on screening for cardiovascular risk factors

de Silva, N*. (College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka, 1996)

Clinical adults is the method used to assess evaluate and improve the care of patients in a systematic way. An adult was carried out on screening for three cardiovascular risk factors, namely asymptomatic hypertension, ...

The Consultation and doctor - patient communication

de Silva, N*. (Sri Lanka Medical Association, 1999)

The Consultation and doctor - patient communication

de Silva, N*. (College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka, 1999)

Continuing professional development (CPD) - an emerging international trend for doctors in practice

de Silva, N*. (Ruhunu Clinical Society of Sri Lanka, 2000)

Continuous Medical Education (CME) and Continuous Professional Development (CPD) by which doctors maintain current knowledge and skills, acquire knowledge and skills is mostly volunteered at the present time. It is to be ...

Distance education:a flexible learning approach for practising doctors

de Silva, N*. (Galle Medical Association., 2000)

Distance education is a mode of delivery of education materials such as printed matter, audio and video tapes to the doorstep of learners. It is flexible because it is learner centered, self paced, not constrained by fixed ...

Educational audit on the counselling module of the diploma in family medicine (DFM) course

de Silva, N*. (Galle Medical Association., 1998)

The criterion for the audit was that the audit was that the trainees should progress from their existing level of confidence to a highest level of knowledge and skills. Pretest and past test assessing of knowledge of ...

Evaluation of the Family Medicine Programme at the Faculty of Medicine,University of Kelaniya by Students and GP Teachers

de Silva, N*. (College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka, 1995)

This paper reports the findings of the course evaluation carried out at the termination of the family medicine programme in 1995. Evaluation was through 2 questionnaires - one students and the other to GP teachers. The ...

The Family in crisis, family as a unit of social change

de Silva, N*. (Peoples Bank, 1996)

Family medicine in the undergraduate curriculum

de Silva, N*. (Sri Lanka Medical Association, 1995)

Describes family medicine and its relevance. Two universities established family medicine departments.The introduction of family medicine to the curriculum is particularly opportune in Sri Lanka with medical schools turning ...

Family medicine in the undergraduate curriculum : teaching and learning

de Silva, N*. (College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka, 1997)

Recognizes the importance of family medicine in the undergraduate curriculum in UK, USA, Singapore, Malaysia and Sri Lanka. Looks at newer methods of teaching and the teaching potential of family medicine. Provides a very ...

International course on "Promoting Excellence in Teaching General Practice"

de Silva, N*. (College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka, 1996)

Medical students experiences of learning communication skills during a family medicine clerkship in Sri Lanka

de Silva, N*. (Department of Family Medicine, Aga Khan University Pakistan, 2005)

INTRODUCTION: The teaching of communication skills to medical students was introduced for the first time in Sri Lanka in 1996, during a clinical attachment in family medicine. Setting: The University Family Medicine Clinic ...

One day general practice morbidity survey in Sri Lanka

de Silva, N*.; Mendis, K. (Oxford University Press, 1998)

BACKGROUND: National morbidity surveys provide valuable data for monitoring the health needs of populations, health policy planning and design of medical curricula. In order to meet a long-standing need for such information ...

Patient satiasfaction with consultation in ambulatory care setting in Sri Lanka

de Silva, N*.; Abayasekera, S.; Mendis, K.; Ramanayake, J. (Department of Family Medicine, Aga Khan University Pakistan, 2006)

Patients' expectations and satisfaction with consultations

de Silva, N*. (College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka, 2007)

Psychiatric morbidity in 3 family practices

Ferdinando, K.; de Silva, N*.; Wijegoonewardena, A.D.P.A. (College of General Practitioners of Sri Lanka, 1989)

Qualitative research

Sumathipala, A.; Siribaddana, S.; de Silva, N*. (Sri Lanka Medical Association, 2003)

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Qualitative research: how to do it

de Silva, N*. (Department of Family Medicine, Aga Khan University Pakistan, 2005)

Traditionally bio-medical research has been quantitative research which reduces data to quantities and numerical values. Qualitative research on the other hand is characterised by the use of non numeric textual data. By ...

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