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This study aimed to assess students' perceptions of their educational environment in the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, Morocco, using the Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure (DREEM). A cross-sectional survey was conducted in the Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy of Rabat, Morocco, in which medical students' perceptions of their educational environment were assessed using the DREEM criteria during the 2013-2014 academic years. The DREEM inventory encompasses 50 items divided into five subdomains: perceptions of learning, perceptions of teaching, academic self-perceptions, perceptions of atmosphere, and social self-perceptions. The DREEM has a maximum score of 200, which would correspond to a perfect educational environment. The mean scores (+/-standard deviation) of students' responses were compared according to their year of study and gender. The responses of 189 postgraduate medical students were included. The mean total DREEM score was 90.8 (45.4%). The mean total scores for five subdomains were 21.2/48 (44.2%), 21.8/44 (49.6%), 13.1/32 (40.9%), 19.0/48 (39.6%), and 15.6/28 (55.7%) respectively. Female students reported higher perceptions of teaching scores than males (P=0.002), and students in their fifth year of study reported significantly higher social self-perceptions scores than those in their fourth year (P=0.03). In this study of the oldest faculty of medicine in Morocco, students perceived the educational environment as having many problems.
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Female , Humans , Male , Atmosphere , Cross-Sectional Studies , Learning , Morocco , Pharmacy , Self Concept , Social Perception , Students, MedicalABSTRACT
The nutcracker syndrome refers to compression of the left renal vein between the aorta and the superior mesenteric artery. After a review of the literature, the authors emphasize the uncommon incidence of this pathology, and the interest of imaging in the survey of this affection.
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Renal Veins , Vascular Diseases/diagnostic imaging , Aorta, Abdominal , Female , Humans , Mesenteric Artery, Superior , Syndrome , Tomography, X-Ray Computed , Young AdultABSTRACT
Posterior-reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES) is a recently clinicoradiologic entity caused by numerous medical conditions and characterized by acute-neurologic disorders, such as headaches, confusion, seizures associated with arterial hypertension. MRI characteristics are typical. The rapid diagnosis is of capital importance due to a potential reversibility.
