Teaching Computer Programming to Medical Doctors, Nurses and Hospital Staff: A Pilot Study

Do Financial Incentives Increase Doctors’ Willingness to Publish Research? – A Pilot Study of 21 Junior Doctors

Teaching Billing and Coding to Medical Students: A Pilot Study

Complex billing practices cost the US healthcare system billions of dollars annually. Coding for outpatient office visits [known as Evaluation & Management (E&M) services] is commonly particularly fraught with errors. The best way to insure proper billing and coding by practicing physicians is to teach this as part of the medical school curriculum. Here, in a pilot study, we show that medical s...

Job Satisfaction among Nurses and Doctors in a Tertiary Hospital in North-Western Nigeria: a Cross- Sectional Study

Background and Objective: This study was undertaken to assess the levels of job satisfaction and its correlates among nurses and doctors in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital (AKTH); and to compare the levels of job satisfaction between nurses and doctors.   Methods: In a cross-sectional study, 350 nurses and doctors in Aminu Kano Teaching Hospital were surveyed. Socio-demographic data, employment ...

Creative writing workshops for medical education: learning from a pilot study with hospital staff.

A course in creative writing was designed as a possible tool in medical education. Twelve volunteers (six doctors and six non-medical staff) participated in seven workshops held weekly. Four aims were identified: to help put thoughts onto paper; to facilitate interpretation of narrative; to encourage expression of emotions related to illness and death, and to encourage creativity. The course wa...

Staff gender and risk of assault on doctors and nurses.

Clinical staff on acute psychiatric inpatient units often are asked to provide care for potentially violent patients. Documentation of which staff are at greatest risk of being assaulted is a necessary step in developing interventions to reduce that risk. The present study evaluated the relationship between staff gender and the risk of becoming a victim of assault while taking into account the ...