Despite widespread institutional and professional support, the recommendations of the Bristol Royal Infirmary Inquiry may be insufficient to reduce patient risk from impaired senior medical practitioners. Using the First Inquiry into Neurosurgical Services at the Canberra Hospital as a case study, this article argues that the Bristol-type recommendations--which emphasise reformulation of clinic...

In recent years, there has been growing demand for wearable chemosensors for their important potential applications in mobile and electronic healthcare, patient self-assessment, human motion monitoring, and so on. Innovations in wearable chemosensors are revolutionizing the modern lifestyle, especially the involvement of both doctors and patients in the modern healthcare system. The facile inte...

Excerpt] In this paper, we argue that there remain several unanswered questions surrounding selfassessments of knowledge that must be addressed before we can reach a more definitive conclusion on the viability of these measures. The answers to these questions may provide further evidence that self-assessments should not be used as an indicator of learning or they may serve to qualify the condit...

This study aimed at investigating the comparative effect of using self-assessment vs. peer-assessment on young EFL learners’ performance on selective and productive reading tasks. To do so, 56 young learners from among 70 students in four intact classes were selected based on their performance on the A1 Movers Test. Then, the participants were randomly divided into two groups, self-assessment a...

The present study examines the relationship between codependency and caregiving to determine whether codependent persons tend to be attracted to caregiving professions. The study also examined the relationship between codependency, self-esteem, and locus of control, as measured by the Friel Co-Dependency Assessment Inventory (Friel, 1985; Friel & Friel, 1987), the Tennessee Self-Concept Scale (...

As part of the adaptation of the «Psychological research methods, design and techniques» subject to the European Higher Education Area, an activity to promote integra tion in the process of acquiring methodological skills and their self-assessment was proposed. A «Significant Learning Activity based on Centres of Interest» was designed based on a subject well-known to the student. One of the ce...

There are two different views on gathering information about self. According to "self-assessment" view, individuals choose tasks that are diagnostic about themselves, regardless of self-esteem implications. On the other hand, according to "self-enhancement" view, individuals choose tasks that are diagnostic only when they have positive self-esteem implications. Present research tested these pre...