Appraisal of Medical Care Programs

Medical appraisal and revalidation: can it improve patient care?

Revalidation for all doctors in England, following the process defined in the Medical Appraisal Guide,1 finally started in December 2012 after ten years’ experience of developmental appraisal in the NHS. There has been significant debate about preserving the formative nature of the appraisal conversation in the context of the recent need for the appraiser to make explicit some of their professi...

Future Reforms of Medical and Long-Term Care Insurance Programs

Appraisal and Filter Programs for Affective Communication

This paper introduces a model of user-agent and interagent interaction that supports basic features of affective communication. As essential requirements for animated agents’ capability to engage in social interaction, we motivate reasoning about emotion and emotion expression, personality, and social role awareness. A (rather standard) appraisal program is employed derive the agent’s emotional...

Evaluating medical residents as managers of care: a critical appraisal of assessment methods

INTRODUCTION The increasing demands for effective and efficient health care delivery systems worldwide have resulted in an expansion of the desired competencies that physicians need to possess upon graduation. Presently, medical residents require additional professional competencies that can prepare them to practice adequately in a continuously changing health care environment. Recent studies s...

The Evolution of Long-term Care Programs; Comment on “Financing Long-term Care: Lessons From Japan”

The need for long-term care (LTC) represents a “new social risk,” one that overlaps with and complements systems of care that pre-date such programs, complicating LTC program design. This commentary expands on Ikegami’s discussion of how these structural factors must be accommodated, as well as historical and cultural factors that influence public expectations of such a...