The Personal Dimension of Professional Responsibility

Professional Responsibility When Lawyering

The professional responsibility model of physician leadership.

The challenges physician leaders confront today call to mind Odysseus' challenge to steer his fragile ship successfully between Scylla and Charybdis. The modern Scylla takes the form of ever-increasing pressures to provide more resources for professional liability, compliance, patient satisfaction, central administration, and a host of other demands. The modern Charybdis takes the form of ever-...

The study of the Reliability and Validity of Personal Responsibility Scale for Adolescents

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the validity and reliability of the Personal Responsibility Scale for Adolescents (Mergler & Shield, 2016). The statistical population consisted of all first and second year high school students in Firoozabad city who were studying in the year 1396-97. Participants were 300 high school students (111 girls and 189 boys) who were selected by clu...

Duty hours and professional responsibility.

Cet article se trouve aussi en français à la page 803. Dear Colleagues, By the time you read these lines, a new cohort of medical graduates will have begun their residencies in family medicine and other specialties. Your College is one of the organizations represented on a steering committee addressing resident duty hours, hosted by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, with f...

Planned home birth: the professional responsibility response.

This article addresses the recrudescence of and new support for midwife-supervised planned home birth in the United States and the other developed countries in the context of professional responsibility. Advocates of planned home birth have emphasized patient safety, patient satisfaction, cost effectiveness, and respect for women's rights. We provide a critical evaluation of each of these claim...