Commitment for Clinical Excellence

Commitment for Clinical Excellence

A commitment to excellence

The Korean Journal of Urology (KJU) has adopted “A commitment to excellence” as a slogan for 2015. Selected by members of the editorial board among various candidates, this slogan most accurately reflects the eagerness and passion of our members and our commitment to reaching excellence in the field of urology. To be an excellent journal in the f ield of urology, the KJU should be indexed in SC...

ACCEL : Advancing Cornell ’ s Commitment to Excellence and Leadership 1 ACCEL : Advancing Cornell ’ s Commitment to Excellence and Leadership

The NSF ADVANCE program was begun in response to MIT’s 1999 report “A Study on the Status of Women Faculty in Science at MIT.” The program’s stated goals are to increase the recruitment, retention, and promotion into leadership positions of women in engineering and the sciences, and to institutionalize best practices, policies and programs across colleges as they pertain to women faculty . This...

Clinical excellence in cardiology.

A recent study identified 7 domains of clinical excellence on the basis of interviews with "clinically excellent" physicians at academic institutions in the United States: (1) communication and interpersonal skills, (2) professionalism and humanism, (3) diagnostic acumen, (4) skillful negotiation of the health care system, (5) knowledge, (6) taking a scholarly approach to clinical practice, and...

The National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).

In discussions on the development of the institutional framework for decisions on the benefit package of social health insurance in Germany, the English National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) is considered as either a good or a bad example for reform. According to this study, the procedures and criteria applied by NICE for making health care coverage decisions are legitimate. Procedu...