The University of New England includes more than a dozen health or health related programs within its colleges of Health Professions, Osteopathic Medicine, Pharmacy, Arts and Sciences, School of Public Health, and a soon to be founded College of Dental Medicine. For more than a decade, the Westbrook College of Health Professions has integrated interprofessional education into its programs. Earl...

The Engineer, Land Surveyor and Geologist Registration Law (Act 367) includes under Section 4 (g) a “Code of Ethics” for engineers, land surveyors and geologists practicing in the Commonwealth. Section 4 (g) entitled, “Suspension and Revocation of Licenses; Registrations and Certificates; Reinstatements”, specifically empowers the Board to discipline any registrant guilty of misconduct in the p...

Most accounts of organizations and law treat law as largely exogenous and emphasize organizations’ responses to law. This study proposes a model of endogeneity among organizations, the professions, and legal institutions. It suggests that organizations and the professions strive to construct rational responses to law, enabled by “rational myths” or stories about appropriate solutions that are t...

BACKGROUND There is a long-standing belief that creativity is coupled with psychopathology. AIMS To test this alleged association and to investigate whether any such association is the result of environmental or genetic factors. METHOD We performed a nested case-control study based on Swedish registries. The likelihood of holding a creative occupation in individuals who had received in-pati...

BACKGROUND There are still sparse data on vaccination coverage against human papillomavirus (HPV) among students in the health professions. The aim of this study was to investigate HPV vaccination coverage in female students from the health professions in Greece. METHODS A self-administered, anonymous questionnaire was distributed to second-year and third-year female students pursuing degrees...