Renewing professionalism

Renewing professionalism in dental education: overcoming the market environment.

The most important mission of dental education is development of student professionalism. It is only within the context of professionalism that specialized knowledge and technical expertise find meaning. Altruism, integrity, caring, community focus, and commitment to excellence are attributes of professionalism. Its backbone is the obligation of service to people before service to self--a socia...

Addressing the marketplace mentality and improving professionalism in dental education: response to Richard Masella's "Renewing professionalism in dental education".

Richard Masella has written a very thought-provoking article that makes many excellent arguments regarding critical issues about professionalism in dental education. Rather than focus on minor points of contention, this response to his article highlights two main areas for further discussion. The first is the impact of the "marketplace" mentality and how there needs to be a balance between fisc...

Renewing GENETICS.

Professionalism.

Renewing Cryptographic Timestamps

This paper shows that the scheme described in Haber and Stornetta [Haber and Stornetta Jr., 1994] for extending the validity of a cryptographic timestamp for a Time Stamping Service contains security shortcomings. A modification is proposed to rectify the identified shortcomings.