Tikrit Iraq

A new curriculum in Tikrit Medical College: students experience and opinion. Alif Ba magazine, 1993: 22-23. , Article on interviews with number of students on their experience and opinion of students on the new PBL curriculum adopted by Tikrit University College of Medicine (TUCOM) since its foundation in 1988 published in the weekly magazine " Alif Ba " in 1993.

Background: Self-medication is promoted in many countries for several reasons such as prevention of simple diseases and symptoms, provision of rapid treatment, simpler health system diseases, and reduction of doctor’s examination fees in health funds. The aim of this study is to assess the knowledge and attitude of self-medication among medical students in Tikrit University. Subject and Material: A cross-sectional study was conducted at Tikrit University College of Medicine from December 15, 2017 to March 15, 2018. The sample consisted of 225 students, out of which 113 were males and 112 were females. Samples were selected in a stratified, random sampling design from all stages of the college. The data were collected using a questionnaire which was administered by interviewers and email. Results: About 81.3% of the medical students who enrolled in the study used self-medications. The frequency of self-medication among the clinical stages was higher than the basic stages. Headache (92%) was the common reason for self-medication practice among people, followed by fever (64%) and common cold (58.6%), according to the opinion of the medical students. Doctors’ advice was the main source of information that the students (64%) depended on, followed by advice from pharmacists (47.5%). Most of the respondents had poor knowledge (72.8%), but more than half of the students had a positive attitude (67.25%) toward self-medication. Conclusion: Countless understudies were distinguished to rehearse self-medicine, and a large portion of the respondents had helpless information; however, they had a great dem eanor about self-prescription. Commonness of self-medication drug increments as year of study increments. This might be because of
expanded review openness to illnesses and prescriptions. Hence, it is unequivocally suggested for raising the issue of direction to edify the understudies about the issues that might emerge from unseemly drug use.

Description of the first ever PBL medical curriculum in Iraq which started in 1989. It adopted following educational strategies and approaches: student-centred, problem-based, full integration, community orientation. Some early evaluative studies are also stated with original curriculum map of the 6-year projection of the programme.

Community based education is defined as a means of implementing community oriented learning programs (which is the type of training that focuses on both population groups and individuals taking into consideration community health needs) as defined by (WHO-1987) which consists of learning activities that take place within the community where students, teachers, members of the community and other sectors are engaged actively through this educational experience, i.e the learning activities that take place in particular community settings. These activities may or may not be relevant to community health needs as the curriculum can be community oriented without being community based. On the other hand we can have a community-based curriculum without being community oriented. Our college has tried since establishment, to implement relevant curriculum, which is both community oriented as well as community based. TUCOM (Tikrit University College of medicine)/CBE program (in its ideal times) constitutes a community based curriculum including an acceptable balance of community based activities throughout the duration of educational settings (6 years of study). The curriculum of TUCOM constitutes community-based settings for 2 days/week (field work) under supervision for the 1st, 2 nd and 3 rd years, in addition to community projects for the 2 nd and 3 rd year. Training is done in small groups throughout the academic year in coordination with the theoretical knowledge they gain at college. Training is not limited to PHC centers, but extends through a detailed scheduled plan to include schools, kindergartens, communicable disease centers, factories (mainly in the 4 th year) and family visits. The main objectives of field work are to give students contact with relevant community heath problems, systems of health care at different levels, units of PHC, how to take proper medical histories from healthy people, acquisition of essential medical skills, geographical and demographical characteristic factors of community, scientific analysis of health problems and team work with other members and health staff.

Cancer is one of the most debilitating and traumatic diseases of modern life, for which no curative approach is presently available. Even though the recent therapies used to treat patients with various types of cancer have not been completely effective, adjuvant therapies, including the use of medicinal plants, may have some effect in achieving cancer treatment goals. Cumin has also been widely used in traditional medicine to treat a variety of diseases, including hypolipidemia, cancer, and diabetes. We used cumin in different concentrations to observe effect of cumin on HL60 cell line. We used MTT cell viability test to investigate cytotoxic effect of cumin. We made experiment for 24, 48 and 72 h and we incubate our cumin exposed drug 37 °C in CO2 incubator. According to MTT results we found IC50 values for cumin 8.5 mg/mL for 72 h incubation. Generally, cancer cells show drug resistant to especially chemical drugs. Use of plant derived substances may reduce drug resistant on cance...