OBJECTIVES To determine the level of representation of women doctors in medical professional organisations in South Africa historically and currently, and if not adequate, to ascertain the reasons for women's limited participation in medico-political activities. DESIGN A descriptive study of the membership of South African medical professional organisations and their executive structures. O...

Throughout history, story has been a powerful and effective way to build relationships within groups of people. Professional group facilitators know the power that story can bring to the workshops and group sessions they lead. From within the membership of the International Association of Facilitators (IAF), a group of 18 facilitators came together to collectively research the benefits of story...

This article describes the role of transnational anti-apartheid activism in South Africa, Britain and the United States in generating international moral outrage over the readmission of the Medical Association of South Africa (MASA) to the World Medical Association (WMA), which had taken place in 1981 after it had withdrawn from that body in 1976. It discusses an example of a controversy where ...

THE membership of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Standards of Practice Committee represents experts in a broad spectrum of interventional procedures from both the private and academic sectors of medicine. Generally Standards of Practice Committee members dedicate the vast majority of their professional time to performing interventional procedures; as such they represent a valid b...

THE membership of the Society of Interventional Radiology (SIR) Standards of Practice Committee represents experts in a broad spectrum of interventional procedures from both the private and academic sectors of medicine. Generally, Standards of Practice Committee members dedicate the vast majority of their professional time to performing interventional procedures; as such they represent a valid ...

We use linked employer-employee data to investigate the job satisfaction effect of union membership in Britain. We depart from previous studies by developing a model that simultaneously controls for the determinants of individual membership status and for the selection of employees into occupations according to union coverage. We find that a negative association between membership and satisfact...

OBJECTIVE The current research investigates the potential of online support groups (OSGs) to foster empowerment and how membership might affect the patient/health professional relationship. METHODS 246 participants across 33 OSGs completed an online questionnaire. RESULTS All empowerment processes and outcomes identified by van Uden-Kraan et al. [1] were found to be present. All empowerment...

the American Association for laboratory Animal Science (AAlAS, http://www.AAlAS.org) has a long and progressive history in the evolution of the field of biomedical research (McPearson and Mattingly, 2000). From its beginnings in the mid-twentieth century when five veterinarians met in Chicago to the current conferences of 5000 attendees, the association has been pivotal in the advancement of re...