Various assessment methods are available to assess clinical competence according to the
model proposed by Miller. The choice of assessment method will depend on the purpose of …

Most medical schools have established a medical education unit (MEU) or similar bodies in
response to various reforms in medical education. Such units have a variety of titles and …

Objectives: To identify genetic defects in an Omani family diagnosed with deafness. Methods:
A cross-sectional association study was conducted at the Department of Biochemistry, …

Background Hereditary hearing loss is a heterogeneous group of complex disorders with an
overall incidence of one in every 500 newborns presented as syndromic and non-…

We have investigated the prevalence of mutations in the connexin 26 (GJB2) gene in Omani
population using both PCR‐RFLP and direct DNA sequencing methods. Two common …

… MYO15A nucleotidic sequence; the H 3 M 2 plot showing ROHs in chromosome 17 … Flavia
Palombo and Nadia Al-Wardy: These authors contributed equally to this work… Nadia Al-Wardy …

Objective To investigate if any correlation exists between students' grades on their final doctor
of Medicine (MD) assessment and their overall preclinical grade point average (GPA) and …

Autozygosity-driven exome analysis has been shown effective for identification of genes
underlying recessive diseases especially in countries of the so-called Greater Middle East (GME…

Objective: To develop a polymerase chain reaction (PCR) based test for the detection of a
common frame-shift mutation (35delG) in the connexin-26 (GJB2) gene, and to investigate the …

Background: Several mutations described in the connexin-26 gene cause nonsyn-dromic
autosomal recessive deafness (NARD). The prevalence of two frame-shift mutations, known as …