[Purpose] The aim of this study was to examine the applicability of the Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) to postgraduate education systems for novice and mid-career therapists in workplaces. [Subjects] Physical and occupational therapists with 1 to 5 years of clinical experience took the OSCE to assess their learning, with a physical or occupational therapy faculty member and a ...

Effects of supervisor and supervisee theoretical orientation on supervisees' perceptions of supervisors' models, roles, and foci were studied, as were variables influencing quality of supervision and supervisee autonomy. Interns (N = 84) from 32 nationwide training sites were surveyed. Cognitive-behavioral supervisors were perceived to be in a consultant role and to focus on skills and strategi...

The current Internet architecture was designed as a mean of connecting pairs of hosts and allow them to reliably exchange packets. The way we use it every day deeply changed from pure communication to (mostly) content distribution. The wish to fill the gap between the underlying architecture and the information-centric nature of the current Internet traffic has inspired many new architectures w...

OBJECTIVE To identify and describe critical helpful and hindering clinical teaching behaviors of supervising athletic trainers, as perceived by student athletic trainers, and to provide a better understanding of the student athletic training experience. DESIGN AND SETTING The critical incident technique was used to identify critical behaviors of supervising athletic trainers as perceived by s...

The degree of association between supervisor and subordinate perceptions of the supervisor's leadership style, use of power by the supervisor, and the supervisor's conflict-management style was studied in 87 organizational units representing five service-oriented organizations. The ability of the supervisors' and subordinates' perceptions, individually and jointly, and the discrepancy between t...

We analyze an adverse selection environment with third party supervision. We assume that the supervisor and the agent can collude while interacting with the principal. As long as the supervisor is symmetrically informed with the agent, the former’s existence does not improve the principal’s rent extraction. This is due to the coalitional efficiency between the supervisor and the agent. However,...

Treatment-focused research is concerned with the establishment of the comparative efficacy and effectiveness of clinical interventions, aggregated over groups of patients. The authors introduce and illustrate a new paradigm-patient-focused research-that is concerned with the monitoring of an individual's progress over the course of treatment and the feedback of this information to the practitio...