Acute Aortic Dissection: Clinician Update Print ISSN: 0009-7322. Online ISSN: 1524-4539 Copyright © 2010 American Heart Association, Inc. All rights reserved. is published by the American Heart Association, 7272 Greenville Avenue, Dallas, TX 75231 Circulation doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.110.958975 2010;122:184-188 Circulation. http://circ.ahajournals.org/content/122/2/184 World Wide Web at: The...

Occupational medicine has been formally recognized as a specialty since 1978 but until recently it has been practised largely outside the National Health Service so that its content and scope may be unfamiliar to many doctors. The Faculty of Occupational Medicine which has just celebrated its tenth anniversary has, as one of the features of the examination for Associateship, a requirement to pa...

Clinical practicum is an important means through which clinicians gain the knowledge and skills needed to provide effective services for a broad variety of clients. Through practicum, student clinicians learn about the practices of the profession. The manner in which this transmission of knowledge occurs, however, is largely unknown. The focus of this paper is to examine the fundamental assumpt...

In wound care today, biofilm is a subject area of great interest and debate. There is an increasing awareness that biofilm exists in the majority of non-healing wounds, and that it is implicated in both recalcitrance and infection. Together with the presence of devitalised host tissue, biofilm is recognised as a component of the wound environment that requires removal to enable wound progressio...

Context.\p=m-\Clinician-educators have concerns about their ability to be promoted and the criteria used by medical school promotion committees. Objective.\p=m-\To discover the criteria and methods that medical school promotion committees use to make decisions about the promotion of clinician-educators. Methods.\p=m-\In June 1996 we mailed a questionnaire to chairpersons of all medical school p...

BACKGROUND This study investigates clinicians' views of clinician-patient and clinician-clinician communication, including key factors that prevent clinicians from achieving successful communication in a large, high-pressured trilingual Emergency Department (ED) in Hong Kong. METHODS Researchers interviewed 28 doctors and nurses in the ED. The research employed a qualitative ethnographic appr...

BACKGROUND It is well-established that core clinician interpersonal behaviours are important when treating depression, but few studies have evaluated whether outcome is determined by clinicians׳ general behaviour rather than by the perception of the individual being treated. METHODS In the NIMH TDCRP, 157 patients rated their clinician׳s genuineness, positive regard, empathy and unconditional...

BACKGROUND Clinician-scientists play an important role in translating between research and clinical practice. Significant concerns about a decline in their numbers have been raised. Potential barriers for career entry and progress are explored in this study. METHODS Case-study research methods were used to identify barriers perceived by clinician-scientists and their research teams in two Can...