Biomedical subjects

K E Burton

Publications and source records attributed to K E Burton.

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PubMed1979

What shall we teach undergraduates?

The opinions of 600 randomly selected doctors on what should be taught to undergraduates in clinical years were analysed. The respondents gave a high priority to general medicine, paediatrics, general surgery, casualty, and gynaecology, but a low priority to forensic medicine, plastic surgery, radiotherapy, anaesthetics, radiology, and rehabilitation medicine. Doctors thought that these should be taught to postgraduates. The two major groupings of doctors--general practitioners and consultants--gave essentially the same priorities. Undergraduate curricula cannot include all major specialities, so the results of this analysis may provide a useful basis for selecting the most suitable subjects. Criteria for including other specialties might be the ability and enthusiasm of the teachers and well-thought-out and academically sound teaching programmes.

Attitude of Health Personnel↗

PubMed1979

A simple goniometer for measuring hip function.

A goniometer was designed and developed in an attempt to find an objective method of measuring hip flexion and extension in walking as as indication of hip function. Existing goniometers were found to be inadequate for clinical and research use because either they did not provide sufficient information or the information they provided was more than necessary, requiring bulky and time-consuming power devices. The present goniometer is a compromise, providing a quick and easy-to-use clinical and research tool which measures total flexion and extension in walking.

Adolescent↗

PubMed1979

Patients' expectations in relation to outcome of total hip replacment surgery.

The importance of expectations has been assessed by giving 88 patients who had undergone total hip replacement surgery a series of visual analogue scales to provide a pain score, a 5-point rating scale to assess their remembered expectations, and an interview to establish clinical, functional, social, and psychological data. Patients generally had high expectations, but only 55% had their expectations fulfilled. Despite this, 86% claimed the operation to be successful, though when questioned more closely patients noted a certain amount of displeasure about the outcome. Further analysis revealed that, when the sample was split into 2 groups of fulfilled and unfulfilled expectations, significant differences were noted in that the quality of life enjoyed by the former group was greater than that enjoyed by the latter group. This finding suggests that the notion of 'success' is not as effective as the notion of 'expectations' as a measure of the outcome of total hip replacement surgery.

Adult↗