BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Written and verbal communication skills are important skills for all physicians. While verbal skills are taught and assessed in medical school, medical students report limited instruction in written communication skills. This study examined the impact of a curriculum delivered during a 6-week clinical rotation in Internal Medicine on the objective assessment of medical...

Research undertaken through the EC Leonardo da Vinci sponsored EUROPROF project has highlighted the need for those involved in HRD and VET to adopt a broad developmental view of occupational competence. This paper develops these ideas a stage further in an attempt to produce a model of occupational identity formation, which is sufficiently dynamic so as to recognise that there are continuities ...

Robots have been used successfully in structured settings, where the environment is controlled; this research is inspired by the vision of robots moving beyond structured, controlled settings. The work focuses on the problem of teaching robots forcebased assembly skills from human demonstration. To avoid position dependencies, force-based discrete states (contact formations) are used to describ...

Occupational therapy’s long-standing expertise in activities of daily living includes involvement in the feeding, eating, and swallowing performance of individuals across the life span (AOTA, 2002). Both occupational therapists and occupational therapy assistants1 provide essential services in the comprehensive management of feeding, eating, and swallowing problems. These problems can be wide r...

In this paper, I develop a dynamic model of occupational mobility in which an interaction of multiple general skills in skill accumulation is introduced. I investigate workers’ motivation to exploit this interaction and how the motivation generates occupational mobility. The results of a structural estimation indicate that the theoretical model is able to replicate a set of empirical patterns o...

The objective of the paper is to construct and estimate a dynamic structural model of schooling and occupational choice at the three-digit classification level, in which different occupations involve different mix of tasks. In the model, occupations are characterized by complexity of various tasks. Unlike occupational specific human capital, skills used in one occupation help a worker to enter ...

This study aimed to explore the incidence, reporting and management of occupational exposure among nurses working in high-risk areas in two major hospitals in the western suburbs of Sydney, Australia. A structured questionnaire with a mixture of open and closed ended questions was developed to survey the nurses. The responses to each question was analysed using either a quantitative approach fo...