/library/oar/handle/123456789/19891 Fri, 14 Nov 2025 17:28:20 GMT 2025-11-14T17:28:20Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20076 Title: The assessment of competence of students in the health field Abstract: In September 1980, the World Health Organisation set up a Working Group entrusted with the task of re- examining assessment systems currently employed by Member States of the WHO in the evaluation of competence of students in the health field, the finding of faults within these systems, the identification of general principles involved in the planning of an adequate assessment programme, and the suggestion of practical ways whereby these principles could be implemented. Sat, 01 Jan 1983 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/20076 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20069 Title: Diabetes : aetiology and pathophysiology of Diabetes Mellitus Abstract: In the Second report of the WHO Expert Committee on Diabetes Mellitus, diabetes mellitus is defined as a state of chronic hyperglycaemia which may result from many environmental and genetic factors, often acting jointly. The major regulator of glucose concentration in the blood is insulin, a hormone synthesized in and secreted by the B-cells of the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas. Hyperglycaemia may be due to a lack of insulin or to an excess of factors that oppose its action. This imbalance leads to abnormalities of carbohydrate, protein and lipid metabolism. The major effects of diabetes include characteristic symptoms, ketoacidosis, the progressive development of disease of the capillaries of the kidney and retina, damage to the peripheral nerves, and excessive arteriosclerosis. Sat, 01 Jan 1983 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/20069 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20058 Title: An overview of arteriosclerosis and surgical considerations of coronary arteriosclerosis Abstract: In the western civilisation arteriosclerosis has become the major cause of death, accounting for approximately 65% of all deaths. In recent years it has increased in almost epidemic proportions. Studies have shown that the disease process is initiated early in teenage life and progresses insidiously thereafter to produce extensive morbidity and death in later life due to ischaemic damage to the myocardium, brain, lower limbs and viscera. The aetiology is multifocal and has strong social implications. The financially richer a society becomes the greater is the development of arteriosclerosis. Sat, 01 Jan 1983 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/20058 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z /library/oar/handle/123456789/20057 Title: Renal transplantation Abstract: The first Renal Transplantation ever to be carried out in Malta was performed on the 22nd April, 1983, a day that may well be included in the Medical History of our Islands. This .event is another step -forward following the introduction, not very long'ago, at St. Luke's Hospital, of Haemodialysis or as the lay- man would call it, the 'Kidney Machine'. What follows is not meant to be a case- presentation proper but is intended to serve as a base over which some pros and cons of renal transplantation, the subsequent management· of the recipient and the possible complications that may commonly arise, could be forwarded to the reader in a hopefully simple and palatable manner. Sat, 01 Jan 1983 00:00:00 GMT /library/oar/handle/123456789/20057 1983-01-01T00:00:00Z