OBJECTIVES To present our first experience in scheme development based on CPC philosophy in Iran. HYPOTHESIS One of the most important reasons of an obvious gap between medical education and professional expectations (outcomes) encountered by recent medical graduates is due to applying conventional curricula, which rely on hypothetical-deductive reasoning model. The University of Calgary has ...

The present article presents a review of the definitions and methodologies of pharmaceutical dispensing elaborated by the regulating authorities, professional and health organizations in Brazil and abroad and also by some Brazilian authors from the perspective of the technical and philosophical aspects involved. Several dispensing models consider the technical aspects related to the medicines a...

At St. Joseph's Regional Medical Center in Paterson, New Jersey, implementation of the Relationship-Based Care (RBC) model of care delivery and enculturation of the philosophy of care embodied in Jean Watson's Theory of Human Caring (Watson, 2007) improved patient outcomes and supported quality nursing care across the continuum of care in our organization. The ability of staff nurses to create ...

The dispensation of pharmaceuticals is an activity that cannot be restricted only to the delivery of medication. The pharmacist must ensure various conditions to ensure that the patient uses the medication in the best possible manner. As it is a professional activity and has been established for pharmaceutical care, dispensation should also have a philosophy of practice, a process of care, and ...

The authors have developed a new hardware/software device for persons with disabilities (the MotionComposer), and in the process created a number of interactive dance pieces for nondisabled professional dancers. The paper briefly describes the hardware and motion tracking software of the device before going into more detail concerning the mapping strategies and sound design applied to three int...

This essay contains an approach to the moral thinking of Pellegrino. This first part addresses the elementary sources of Medicine identity, as seen by the author, which was the starting point for his research on the role of both physicians and Medicine, and led him to his proposal to reform medical ethics. His thinking is developed in four different scopes: 1) the ideal of medical education; 2)...

ion paradigm or approach KBS defined in terms of Source Heuristic classification Feature abstraction, heuristic match, solution refinement Clancey 1985 Deep and shallow knowledge Deep knowledge, causal relations, shallow knowledge Keravnoe and Washbrook 1989 Problem-solving method Problem decomposition, domain independent strategies, sequencing inferences McDermott 1988 Generic tasks Problem ty...

The information ethics of Luciano Floridi’s well-known Philosophy of Information (PI) project are explored as potential foundations for a deepening sense of stewardship in library and information studies (LIS) practice. The implications of PI’s world view of “information objects” as having intrinsic value and resulting moral rights within the evolving “infosphere” are discussed in the context o...

The International Federation of Emergency Medicine (IFEM) mission is to improve emergency medicine (EM) around the world. Central to this philosophy is specialty development through an emphasis on education. To achieve that goal, the IFEM published manuscripts in 2009 and 2011 describing undergraduate (also known as “medical school”) education and graduate education (also known as “residency tr...