BACKGROUND The Department of Health's review of continuing professional development in general practice advocates setting team and individual goals. AIM To explore how general practitioners (GPs) share learning experiences with colleagues, focusing on how GPs choose courses as one factor influencing sharing. METHOD Interviews were conducted with 21 GPs using grounded theory methodology. The...

PURPOSE To examine medical students' reflections on the spiritual care of a patient who has died so as to understand how students experienced this significant event and how they or their teams addressed patients' spiritual needs. METHOD In 2010-2011, the authors gave third-year students at Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine an essay assignment, prompting them to reflect on t...

User location data collected on Geo-Social Networking applications (GeoSNs) can be used to enhance the services provided by such applications. However, personal location information can potentially be utilised for undesirable purposes that can compromise users’ privacy. This paper presents a study of privacy implications of location-based information provision and collection on user awareness a...

The satisfaction of physicians is a worldwide issue linked with the quality of health services; their satisfaction needs to be studied from a multi-dimensional perspective, considering lower- and higher-order needs. The objectives of this study were to: i) measure the career satisfaction of physicians; ii) identify differences in the dimensions of career satisfaction; and iii) test factors that...

Ian Govier suggests that patients will benefit if nurses adopt a systematic approach to assessing spiritual needs. However, it may be necessary to evaluate personal spirituality before applying this approach.

Physicians have many information needs that arise at the point of care yet go unmet for a variety of reasons, including uncertainty about which information resources to select. In this study, we aimed to identify the various types of physician information needs and how these needs relate to physicians' use of the database PubMed and the evidence summary tool UpToDate. We conducted semi-structur...

This paper systematically examines the role of extra-firm personal knowledge networks vis-à-vis alternative sources of work-related knowledge. A guiding question is whether there is a difference between job positions. The study is based on a survey and interviews with 105 R&D workers in 46 IT companies in the Greater Cambridge Region. The results show that alternative sources of knowledge are c...

Theoretical and empirical efforts to develop valid methods by which to identify people with mental retardation and related disabilities have been underway for approximately 100 years. Recently, there is a growing consensus that mental retardation is best conceptualized as significant limitations in the multidimensional construct of personal competence. In addition to physical competence, person...

BACKGROUND The integration of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) is becoming increasingly important in reorganizing health care. Adapting ICTs as supportive tools to users' needs and daily practices is vital for adoption and use. OBJECTIVE In order to develop a Web-based personal electronic health record (PEPA), we explored user requirements and needs with regard to desired...