CITATION: Beath, N. et al. 2021. Factors affecting specialist psychiatry training in South Africa : bullying during psychiatric training? African Medical Journal, 111(4):280, doi:10.7196/SAMJ.2021.v111i4.15518.

In service sector, there are challenges in keeping an optimum balance between customers' demand and availability of resources. This problem is going to be more intense in the health sector due to the fact that both arrival and service times are random. Therefore, designing the service environment by keeping the optimum balance between customers’ demand and available resources is becoming a seri...

background and purpose: the fact that who is more qualified to teach the emp (english for medical purposes) courses has long been the cause of argument between the heads of language departments (lds) on one side and those of discipline-specific departments(dsds) on the other side. this research was conducted to study the views of both sides as well as those of students in some emp english class...

BACKGROUND We wanted to determine the importance of factors in primary care physicians' choice of specialist when referring patients and to compare importance ratings by physicians' race and sex. METHODS Using a cross-sectional study design, we surveyed a stratified national sample of 1,252 primary care physicians serving adults to include equal numbers of black women, white women, black men,...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have shown social, economic and psychological factors that influence consulting behaviour, but the health service use of children is seldom studied. METHOD Data from a cross-sectional study conducted in 1996 including approximately 10,000 children aged 2-17 years in the Nordic countries were analysed according to health service use, measured as consulting a general...

One of the most important elements of the DMPs was the assignment of patients to one specific care provider of a collaborative practice team, consisting of a general practitioner (GP), nurse specialist and medical specialist, as based on complexity of care. Patients with low complexity of care were taken care of by the GP, patients with medium complexity of care received care from the nurse spe...

Background Unequal distribution of specialist doctors in Indonesia has been identified many years ago. Government has taken several measures to address this issue. However the phenomenon is still present today. In the year 2014, Indonesia will apply universal health coverage which needs specialist doctors to support it. The failure to provide specialist doctors would increase inequity, particul...