background:patient concerns represent opportunities for improvement in orthopaedic care. thisstudy’s objectiveis to identify the nature and prevalence of unsolicited patient complaints regarding orthopaedic care ata tertiary referral hospital. the primary null hypothesis that there are no demographic factors associatedwith complaint types was tested. secondarily we determined if the overall com...

PURPOSE The purpose of this investigation was to examine the commissioning history of the professions of physicians, dentists, nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants and dental hygienists of the United States Public Health Service (USPHS), and to determine a critical pathway to commissioning new health care professions into the USPHS. The Advanced Dental Hygiene Practitioner (ADHP), ...

Methods Two empirical studies were made. The first study used an ethical diary from sixty-seven staff members of different professions, including psychiatrists. The diaries were analyzed with focus on value and interest conflicts. The second study was an interview study with twenty staff members from different professions, where the interviews were analyzed with focus on ethical reflections of ...

www.thelancet.com Vol 370 September 29, 2007 1113 Institute, and the Royal Institute of British Architects are promoting greater understanding of health eff ects among the built-environment professions. We now need a paradigm shift in the way professions work together to translate our growing understanding of the link between the built environment and health and wellbeing into real and eff ecti...

OBJECTIVES To examine the basis of multidisciplinary teamwork. In real-world healthcare settings, clinicians often cluster in profession-based tribal silos, form hierarchies and exhibit stereotypical behaviours. It is not clear whether these social structures are more a product of inherent characteristics of the individuals or groups comprising the professions, or attributable to a greater exte...

• On the basis of the belief that empathy-measuring instruments which were developed for the general population did not embrace the essence of empathy in the context of health professions education and patient care, we developed a new instrument to specifi cally measure empathy in that context. • This chapter describes the steps taken in the development and psychometric analyses of the Jefferso...

Foreword This study by Dr. Lu-tao Sophia Wang is one of a series which examines the development of professions as a key to understanding the different patterns in the modernization of Asia. In recent years there has been much glib talk about "technology transfers" to the Third World, as though knowledge and skills could be easily packaged and delivered. Profound historical processes were thus m...

Social networks roles have been widened from being a communication and marketing tools for providing job opportunities to creating works professions that lead generating new works.Social network contributes future jobs through it, not mention one of the most important means at present time, as it has gone beyond its promotional-marketing role become frame professions.
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With the growing awareness of the importance of teaching and learning in universities and the need to move towards evidence-based teaching, it behooves the professions to re-examine their educational research methodology. While the what, how and why of student learning have become more explicit, the professions still struggle to find valid methods of evaluating the explosion of new innovation i...