Redefining Professionalism

2014 winning essay: redefining professionalism in an era of residency work-hour limitations.

Jake and Alex were interns in Riverside Hospital’s internal medicine residency program. Almost since day one, Jake had complained to Emma about Alex’s way of doing things. At first, Jake had chalked it up to the enormous difference between being a med student and being an MD. In the beginning, it was an ordeal for interns to retrieve the needed clinical facts in a moment and to manage the overw...

Professionalism.

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Redefining Workplace Safety and Health

Redefining robustness

The concept of robustness in the context of most work in Alife and complex systems implies that the results of a given model remain consistent despite unexpected variation. For example, homeostatic coupling between an animat and the environment is one possible simple form of robustness which we have demonstrated in simple simulation models (Ikegami et al., 2008, BioSystems, 91, p. 388), in whic...