Quantitative and qualitative methods were used to measure the administrative activities of physician assistant (PA) department chairpersons as compared with Henry Mintzberg's model of managerial roles. The use of Mintzberg's model is unique in that it was developed from observations in the corporate setting but was applied here in an academic setting. Both PA department chairpersons (n = 77) an...

Written around 990 A.D Hidayat-Motaallemin Fil Tibb (Students’ Guide in Medicine) is the oldest general medical Text known to have been written in modern Persian. Little is known of the author other than the fact that he was apparently a well experienced practicing physician by t he name of Abu Bakr Rabi'bin Ahmadal-Akhawaini from Bukhara who claimed to be a second generation student of R...

Written around 990 A.D., Hidayat-MllIaallemill Fit Tibb (Student's Guide ill Medicine) is the oldest general medical text known to have been written in modern Persian. Little is known of the author other than the fact that he was apparently a well experienced practicing physician by the name of Abu Bah Rabi' bin Ahmad al-Akhawaini from Bukhara who claimed to bea second generation student o...

INTRODUCTION LITERATURE REVIEW AND HYPOTHESIS DEVELOPMENT HYPOTHESES DATA AND METHODS RESULTS DISCUSSION CONTACT REFERENCES TABLE 1 TABLE 2

Training in intercultural competency for health care professionals is necessary to bring greater balance to the disparity currently found among those needing health care. The purpose of this study was to determine what, if any, improvements in cultural competency were measurable in physician assistant (PA) students as they matriculated, using the Multicultural Awareness, Knowledge and Skills Su...

The objective of this research is to determine the impact of EMR and CPOE implementation on physician efficiency. A time series observational study was conducted within a hospital setting at six weeks pre-implementation, six weeks post-implementation and five months post-implementation. All 19 subjects were observed twice with one patient per observation. Physician follow-up rounding times per ...

AT the rT(euICSt Of tlle Ministry of Labour (N. l.), a post-graduate course in medicine aind surgery for National Healthi Insurance P'ractitioners was held in conjunction wNith the clinical staffs of the Royal Victoria andi Mater Iinfirmorum Hospitals, lIelfast, and( with the pre-clinical Miedical School of Queen's University, itn Septemiber, 19:83. So successful was this course that the Minist...

In some countries, including France, patients can choose between consulting a physician working in the regulated sector where, general, fees are fully covered by health insurance (whether public, private or mixed), unregulated sector, where balance billing scheme operates. latter, might not be insurance, and must make out-of-pocket payments. The paper analyses signalling properties of this mech...