We collected information on physicians' sex, age, history of clinical practice, Internet access (for availability of information), previous obstetrical experience (possible indication of comfort level with managing gynecological problems) and Canadian College of Family Physicians (CCFP) membership status (access to continuing medical education resources).
Those responses were aggregated into six 'resource scores'--scores for buildings, libraries, labs, clinical sites, internet, and advanced information and communications technology (ICT --(Table 5) and checked for correlation with a series of independent variables.
We collected information on physicians' sex, age, history of clinical practice, Internet access (for availability of information), previous obstetrical experience (possible indication of comfort level with managing gynecological problems) and Canadian College of Family Physicians (CCFP) membership status (requirements for continuing medical education (CME) and access to CME resources).
Increasing the available lecture room infrastructures, library and laboratory facilities, having more and better paid teachers, better social and financial support for students, better conditions for clinical clerkships, Internet connections and more administrative personnel were considered essential to increase the number and quality of medical graduates.
Although there is ongoing debate concerning the clinical status of Internet addiction, and the quality of the extant literature in this emerging field is not optimal, several clinical trials of both pharmacological and psychological treatments for Internet addiction have been published in recent years.
When family physicians search for clinical information, the Internet may be accessed by desktop/laptop or hand-held computers.
Participants will be allocated to the trial groups by the research assistant using the Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit internet randomisation service to ensure allocation concealment.
On randomisation, the clinical unit's internet trial system issued a unique participant identification number and the participant was randomised to one or both trials according to eligibility.
We have taken the following measures in the trial to minimise or avoid bias: 1. Randomisation: The Nottingham Clinical Trials Unit internet randomisation service will be used to ensure allocation concealment.
Interventions with therapist-assistance generally show larger effect sizes and lower attrition rates than self-help programs [ 38], while the amount and nature of the therapists' experience has not been found to greatly influence the clinical outcome of internet therapy [ 40].
When the student has suggested a diagnosis and differential diagnoses, he/she may enter a section called "More about the disease", giving extensive information with a large number of images including differential diagnoses and links to clinical and scientific Internet sites.
