Self-assessment through videotaping compared with peer and trainer feedback

To assess and compare three different types of feedback for presentation skills, self, peer and trainer feedback. Cross-sectional study. Faculty of Medicine at Atatürk University, Erzurum, Turkey, from March 2012 to December 2012. Participants were faculty members and instructor nurses. Each participant gave a 10-minute presentation, which was rated by peers, course trainers and the presenter himself/herself using a thirteen-item questionnaire [designed as a 5-point Likert scale]. Peers and trainers conducted the assessment during the presentation while the self-assessment was done later by watching a video recording of the presentation. Comparison of the points between the groups was made using the two-way ANOVA. Pearson correlation analysis was conducted to evaluate the relationship between the mean scores of self-assessment, peer and trainer assessment. Ten faculty members, 27 instructor nurses and 4 trainers participated in the study. A total of 775 feedback reports were collected for 37 participants. There was no significant difference between the feedback scores of the evaluators as well as the occupation groups [p > 0.05]. There was a strong positive and statistically significant correlation between trainer and peer [r = 0.73, p < 0.001]. Consequently, there were no differences in the evaluations of presentation skills between different stakeholders. Trainers should use the video recording method to self-evaluate their presentation skills, and they should invite their peers from time to time to improve their own personal development by using peer review methods

5-year trend of myocardial infarction, hypertension, stroke and diabetes mellitus in gender and different age groups in Erzurum, Turkey

To investigate the trend and risk of coronary artery diseases [CAD], myocardial Infarction [MI], hypertension [HT], stroke, cerebrovascular disease [CVD], and diabetes mellitus type 2 [DMT2] as regard to different age groups and gender. We retrieved retrospectively almost 5-year data [January 1st 2007 through December 31st 2011] from the Ataturk university hospital that has database registry system based on International Classification of Diseases [ICD-10]. We included 88,293 patients in this analysis. A logistic-regression model was used to assess the effect of groups of variables on the associations of interest [sex and its interaction with age] with calculation of odds ratios with their 95 percent confidence intervals. Out of 88,293 patients, 45% [39,514] were females and mean age was 56.86 +/- 16.23. The females were dominant [P = 0.001] in all age groups in diabetes type 2. Whereas in case of hypertension, CAD and strokes except in young age groups males were more prominent. We found that females had high risk 1.54 [95% CI, 1.50-1.59] for diabetes mellitus while for other cardiovascular disease females had lower risk except a slightly high risk for overall CVD [1.01; 95% CI, 0.93-1.09]. The results demonstrated that for diabetes type 2 and young age group for other cardiovascular diseases females are dominant and have higher risk