Conference Papers
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This collection contains abstracts of conference papers, presented at local and international conferences by the staff of the Faculty of Medicine
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Item Experience and confidence with commonly used computer related tasks: survey results of new medical entrants to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya(Sri Lanka Medical Association, 2017) Solangaarachchi, D.I.K.; Gunathilaka, H.K.T.S.; Hettige, S.; Ediriweera, D.S.INTRODUCTION & OBJECTIVES: In today’s world, skills related to usage of computers play an important role in the academic life of students. A survey was conducted with the objective of comparing the level of experience and confidence on a selected set of commonly used computer related tasks between male and female new entrant medical students to the Faculty of Medicine, University of Kelaniya. METHODS: Data was collected from 155 first year students in 2017 using a Moodle based selfadministered questionnaire. Chi square test was used in calculating statistical significance. RESULTS: Male students represented 43% of those surveyed. Previous experience with performing tasks related to day-to-day computer usage were all reported at a statistically significant (p<0.01) higher rate among males compared to females: installing software (91% vs 48%), installing a printer (54.5% vs 26%), taking printouts (71% vs 55%), scanning documents (30% vs 13.5%), scanning a pen drive (94% vs 73%) and writing a CD/DVD (73% vs 47%). With regard to those with reported high level of confidence in performing these tasks, males were again ahead of females: installing software (50% vs 12%), installing a printer (27% vs 2%), taking printouts (35% vs 21%), scanning documents (15% vs 3%), scanning a pen drive (51.5% vs 22.5%) and writing a CD/DVD (44% vs 12%). Except for taking printouts and scanning documents, all other tasks showed a statiscally significant difference between the sexes. CONCLUSION: Past experience and level of confidence in frequently required computer based tasks are significantly lower among female new entrant medical students compared to their male colleagues.Item Three decades of CMJ - an analysis using PubMed(Sri Lanka Medical Association, 2003) Mendis, K.; Weerabaddana, C.; Solangaarachchi, D.I.K.; Wanniarachchi, C.H.OBJECTIVE: The Ceylon Medical Journal (CMJ) is the only Sri Lankan medical journal that is indexed in MEDLJNE, the largest electronic bibliographic medical database. Publications in the CMJ from 1965 March to 2001 December were analyzed using the PubMed interface of MEDLINE. METHOD: Using PubMed we download the CMJ bibliography in MEDLINE format. Important tagged fields were written to a MS-Access database using a Visual Basic program. The analysis was done using Access-SQL and PubMed queries. RESULTS: There were 1472 citations by 1373 authors. The top 10 authors contributed 15.6% and the top 25, 30.1% of the articles. Lamabadusuriya SP(32), Uragoda CG(31), de Silva HJ(28), de Silva DG(23) and Lucas GN(22) were the top contributors. 944 authors had only one and 176 had two articles. Publications types were: 84.9% 'journal articles', 12.8% letters, 5.2% reviews and 5.1% historical articles. Randomized controlled trials were 0.7%, meta-analysis 0.1%. Articles were classified using 2 to 44 keywords (average 11.4, mode 9) from the MeSH vocabulary. Articles published that were classified under'broad disease categories were: Neoplasm ,174(11.82%), Cardiovascular 159(10.8%), Nervous system 157(10.67%), Endocrine, nutritional and metabolic 157(10.67%), Digestive system 151(10.26%), Musculoskeletal, skin and connective tissue 131(8.9%), Respiratory 113(7.68%). DISCUSSION: For the majority of the 1373 authors, publishing in the CMJ was a onetime affair whilst the top 50 authors contributed for nearly half (46.4%). A by-product of this research is an offline CMJ database system with menu driven search facilities, which will be a useful tool for researchers.