Editorial overview: mentoring to support professional knowledge

Knowledge management tutorial: an editorial overview

We present a tutorial on knowledge management (KM) and a roadmap of this special issue around the knowledge life cycle. Knowledge management is a discipline that provides strategy, process, and technology to share and leverage information and expertise that will increase our level of understanding, to more effectively solve problems, and make decisions. We address three key views: 1) codificati...

California's Professional Mentoring Program: how to develop a statewide mentoring program.

Trends in downsizing, restructuring, increased diversity, and individual responsibility for career development have sparked a renewed interest in mentoring. Technology is changing the way professionals practice, including dieticians. This is reflected in the strategic goals for the American Dietetic Association (ADA). In 1999, with the aid of an ADA Affiliate/Dietetic Practice Group (DPG) Colla...

Editorial overview.

Editorial overview

Computational analysis tools and decision support systems have increased their penetration in the support of clinical processes and management of medical data and knowledge. Applications range from adjunct tools for diagnosis and disease investigation to the treatment and monitoring of therapeutic procedures. As all medical fields, the field of oncology is affected. This special issue includes ...

Overview of the epidemiologic research: Editorial Guidelines

Epidemiology can be considered as a very old science. For example, John Graunt, a statistician, published Natural and Political Observations. In the Bills of Mortality in 1662, he analyzed the mortality rolls in London before the Great Plague, presented one of the first life tables, and reported time trends for many diseases. He provided statist...