Songklanagarind Medical Journal

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Frequency: 6 issues per year (Jan-Feb, Mar-Apr, May-Jun, Jul-Aug and Nov-Dec)
Language: Fultext in Thai and some in English, Abstract in English and Thai
E-mail: skamolth@medicine.psu.ac.th
URL: https://medinfo.psu.ac.th/smj2/smj.htm

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Browsing Songklanagarind Medical Journal by Author "A Khaimook"

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    Attitudes towards teaching in Hatyai Hospital: a 2-year follow-up study
    (Songklanagarind Medical Journal, 2010-02-16) A Khaimook; B Warachit
    To enhance the quality of medical teaching, it is important to appreciate the existing attitudes of teachers and also the changes in their attitudes by time and experience. Our aim was to compare attitudes towards teaching and teacher training before and after undergraduate medical education had started at Hatyai Hospital (Thailand) in April 2001 under the collaborative project to increase production of rural doctors. We used a questionnaire assessing attitudes to teaching and teacher training developed by Finucane (1994) to survey our staff in January 2001 and February 2003 respectively. The responses showed significant differences in two attitudinal statements. There was increased agreement with "I find teaching as satisfying as other activities" (X1= 4.0, S.D. = 1.4, X2 = 4.9, S.D.=1.5, p = .01, Mann-Whitney U test) and reduced agreement with "Sufficient priority is given to teaching in this hospital" (X1= 4.4, S.D.= 1.2, X2 = 3.7, S.D.= 1.2, p = .02). These differences might be attributed to the fact that physicians had more confidence in teaching after one year experience but the hospital needed to consider "teaching role" as one of its important missions as well.
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    A preliminary report on laparoscopic surgery for colorectal cancer in middle-sized secondary hospitals
    (Songklanagarind Medical Journal, 2010-01-15) A Khaimook; J Borkird
    Objectives: To evaluate the feasibility and safety of laparoscopic surgery for colon and rectal cancer in middle-sized secondaryhospitals.Materials and methods: A retrospective study was made of 12 colorectal cancer patients who had undergone laparoscopic surgery from June 2005 to February 2007. A comparison was then made with 12 patients who had had open surgery over the same period.Results: The mean laparoscopic time increased in the laparoscopic group without any statistical significance. The patients who had undergone laparoscopic resection had a significantly earlier return of their bowel function, earlier ambulation, and shorter hospital stay. There were no differences in the distal margin and yield of harvested lymph nodes of resected specimens. One anastomotic leakage was found in the laparoscopic group which was subsequently converted to an open abdominoperineal resection resulting in the patient safely returning home within a month.Conclusion: Our preliminary data showed that laparoscopic colorectal surgery could be performed with comparable results and that it is feasibile to perform laparoscopic colorectal surgery in any middle-sized secondary hospital that performs laparoscopic cholecystectomy as a routine.