BackgroundPatient satisfaction is the top priority of health care facilities in addition to the quality of health care delivery services. The convenience of health care receivers, be it temporal or monetary, fall in this domain. Hospitals should be equipped with dealing with all kinds of emergencies no matter how trivial or catastrophic. AimTo improve the provision of emergency care equipment (1 c.c. syringes) in the examination room of our ophthalmology department by 50% in two months' time. Materials and methodsThis quality improvement project (QIP) was conducted in the ophthalmology department of a teaching hospital in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. This QIP was conducted over a period of two months in the form of three cycles. All cooperative patients with embedded and superficial corneal foreign bodies who presented to the eye emergency were included in the project. The provision of 1 c.c. syringes in the emergency eye care trolley of the eye examination room was ensured at all times after the first cycle survey. A record was maintained of the percentage of patients receiving syringes from the department as well as the percentage of patients purchasing them from the pharmacy. The progress was measured every 20 days, following the approval of this QI project. ResultsA total of 49 patients were included in this QIP. This QIP shows that the provision of syringes was improved to 92.8% and 88.2% in cycles 2 and 3 from the previous statistics of 16.6% in the first cycle. ConclusionsIt is concluded that this QIP achieved its target. The provision of emergency equipment, such as a 1 cc syringe costing less than 1/20th of a dollar, is a simple act that saves resources and improves patient satisfaction.

METHODS: This is a cross sectional study conducted from May to September 2017. A total of 194 medical students from second professional MBBS of any gender were recruited in this study after taking their informed consent. A questionnaire was distributed among the students; their handedness and first professional marks were noted. SPSS v.20.0 was used to analyze the data. Descriptive statistics were applied for both categorical and numerical variables while for comparison independent sample t-test was applied. RESULTS: Out of 194 students enrolled, 184 (94.8%) were right-handed & 10 (5.2%) were left-handed. There were 108 (55.7%) male & 86 (44.3%) female students. In right-handed students, 103 (56%) were males and 81 (44%) were females while in left-handed students, five (50%) were males and five (50%) were females. Mean marks in first professional examinations by right-handed and left-handed students were 429.57±39.054 and 439.80±34.113 respectively (p-value=0.481). Mean first professional marks of male and female students were 422.48±37.53 and 439.66±38.46 respectively (p-value=0.002). CONCLUSION: Our study findings infer that handedness does not affect the academic scores in medical students.