[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of the visual restriction and unstable base dual-task training (VUDT), the visual restriction dual-task training (VDT), and the unstable base dual-task training (UDT) on the balance and attention of chronic stroke patients. [Subjects and Methods] The subjects were 38 chronic stroke patients, who were divided into two groups of 13 pa...

This article provides a review of the training and development literature since the year 2000. We review the literature focusing on the benefits of training and development for individuals and teams, organizations, and society. We adopt a multidisciplinary, multilevel, and global perspective to demonstrate that training and development activities in work organizations can produce important bene...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Neuroendovascular surgery/interventional neuroradiology is a relatively new subspecialty that has been evolving since the mid-1970s. During the past 2 decades, significant advances have been made in this field of minimally invasive therapy for the treatment of intracranial cerebral aneurysms; acute stroke therapy intervention; cerebral arteriovenous malformations; carotid...

Task Force 3: Training in Diagnostic Cardiac Catheterization and Interventional Cardiology Chair: Alice K. Jacobs, MD, FACC, Boston, Massachusetts David P. Faxon, MD, FSCAI, Chicago, Illinois (Society for Cardiac Angiography and Interventions Representative) John W. Hirshfeld, Jr., MD, FACC, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania David R. Holmes, Jr., MD, FACC, Rochester, Minnesota Task Force 4: Training I...

Due to changes in the delivery of health care and in society, medicine became aware of serious threats to its professionalism. Beginning in the mid-1990s it was agreed that if professionalism was to survive, an important step would be to teach it explicitly to students, residents, and practicing physicians. This has become a requirement for medical schools and training programs in many countrie...

The Chinese government is pursuing e-learning policies which makes job-training with a knowledge-based society. To explain more fully the important role of the e-learning environment, this article undertakes some typical examples of the governments’ job-training under e-learning environment. The main problems in servants’ job-training in China are the low quantity in the servants’ training, sho...

LETTER FROM ThE CHAIRMAN A POST-~’DRTEM ON CASSM G. Jack Lipovski REVIEW OF ThE ACt4-SIG~OD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MANAGEMENT OF DATA Carlo Zaniolo TC/DBE IVEMBERSHIP APPLICATION FORM USER INTERFACE MULTILEVEL SECIRITY ISSUES INA TRANSACT! ON-OR I ENTED DATA BASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM Stanley R. Ames, Jr. BOOK REVIEW -DATA BASE DESIGN BY GIO WIEDERHOLD John Grant Page 15 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS IN ...

The specialty of Family Medicine enjoys a special position in the medical practice of the West, serving as one of the key primary care specialties. Family physicians act as providers of first contact catering to the medical needs of the entire family in all aspects of preventive, curative and rehabilitative stages of illness and to health maintenance. The growth of this specialty, however, has ...

INTRODUCTION Current evidence regarding whether the staffing of intensive care units (ICUs) with a trained Intensivist benefits patient outcomes is discordant. We sought to determine whether, among certified Intensivists, base specialty of training could contribute to variation in practice patterns and patient outcomes in ICUs. METHODS The records of all patients who were admitted to one of t...