Purpose The purpose of this study is to explore Swedish police education teachers’ informal workplace learning and its perceived value for their professional development. Two categories teachers, teachers university with different knowledge experience, work together at the unit. Design/methodology/approach method used was in-depth interviews working a Findings Informal by both teacher groups be...

OBJECTIVES Pharmacists provide a wide range of professional services to support the appropriate use of medicines by patients. This study aims to conduct an international, comparative analysis of remuneration models for pharmaceutical professional services. METHODS Information about remuneration models was derived from a literature review and a semi-structured questionnaire completed by expert...

The purpose of this study is to present the traditional and contemporary views on autonomous management of the dental profession in Bulgaria during the period of transition. Methods: The interdependence between the professionalism and ethics was analyzed and the concept of system approach in ethical conduct of the practicing doctor is defined. Results: Dynamic of social relationship shaped by t...

The purpose of this article is to reexamine the current use of what is to count as evaluation evidence to inform professional practice. The provision of evaluation evidence to inform decision making has long been an aspiration, albeit with varying degrees of success. However the need to reexamine the utility of this endeavour has arisen in the contemporary culture of evidence-based policy and p...

the purpose of this research was identifying mechanisms for the development of human resources in khouzestan sugarcane agro industrial company, iran. this is an applied study and the research method was descriptive correlative. the population consisted of employees working in the sugarcane agro industrial company in the province of khuzestan, iran(n=315). one hundred and seventy five people wer...

The paper explores the nature of professional intellect and the requirements for managing it, an area acknowledged as being under-researched. Five case studies in the professional accounting services sector were conducted and the findings were used to identify the structure and evolution towards a knowledge-based accounting practice using Venkatraman’s (1995) model of the virtual organisation. ...

OBJECTIVE To describe financial outcomes and physician productivity associated with the inclusion of well-newborn services in a pediatric hospitalist program in a community hospital. DESIGN Retrospective review of professional billing records and physician activity logs for newborn and inpatient care, consultations, and procedures. SETTING Pediatric hospitalist program in a community hospit...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this research was to explore the value of reflection and its application to practice through the implementation of educational modules within a new Diabetes Care and Education Master Degree Programme in Kuwait, and to realise how this teaching intervention informs changes in practice. METHODS A small exploratory case study was conducted within the Dasman Diabetes Inst...

Since the advent of Islamic Revolution in 1979 and due to foreign exchange controls by the Central Bank of Iran, the black market value of the Iranian rial had declined substantially as compared to its official value. In several articles published in professional journals I have first identified factors which has caused the rial to decline. I have then investigated the impact on Iranian economy...

Taiwan’s Digital School (DS) was established to suport online K-12 Teacher Professional Development. At the core of the online TPD center is platform-independent, webbased environment designed to meet the needs of a large and diverse community of education professionals. DS provides a powerful set of synchronous and asynchronous communication systems, and support tools. DS offers teaching commu...