Clinical supervision is the least investigated, discussed and developed aspect of clinical education (Kilminster & Jolly, 2000) despite being essential within initial professional training and mandated by governments. Even the basic concepts lack precision (Martin, Kumar, & Lizarondo, 2017; Milne, 2007; White, 2017). A popular form of supervision is peer supervision, especially peer group super...

Dr. Harry Campbell is one of the most attractive and readable authors whom \ye know, and this little volume is altogether admirable. In it is garnered together the accumulated wisdom of many years of medical practice, of teaching students, and of experience. If Osier's " Aequanimitas " is?as it deserves to be?a classic, this volume is a worthy second; for it deals with the physician and patient...

This exploratory study investigates the distributed nature and complexity of professional expertise by examining the patterns of cognitive processes in novices and experts who are using ultrasound technology to make diagnoses. The study aims to identify and provide an explanation for such patterns in light of the recent debate on the locus of control underpinning human cognition. A distributed ...

This short review, along with the other reviews in this issue of Hermes, sets out to give a brief description of Vijay K. Bhatia’s work of 1993 Analysing Genre: Language Use in Professional Settings. Since four general reviews inevitably would overlap massively, they each focus on one particular aspect of Bhatia (1993). I shall, nevertheless, present a very brief review of the book in general. ...

Ethics is an ever relevant aspect in every field of human activity in general and health care in particular. From the classical times, professional ethical codes and prayers directed the practice and distribution of the medical care. As the society and its institutions have changed since Hippocrates, so did the practice and delivery of health care changed as the current health care concerns inc...

The French national Agence de Modernisation des Universités, (AMUE), is the Information Technology Consortium which has as members most of the French Universities, (about one hundred and ten). AMUE provides large management software applications to its members, i.e. student, financial and personnel systems; all of them designed with Oracle client/server technology. AMUE also acts as a consultan...

While substantial progress over the past 60 years has enabled a greater proportion of persons with epilepsy (PWE) to live without seizures and treatment-related side effects, numerous challenges in the diagnosis, treatment and social management of epilepsy remain to be solved over the next 60 years so that no person with epilepsy is limited by any aspect of the condition. This achievement is wi...

Pharmacologists belong to a special fraternity, one whose members love to study drugs, even though we may have highly individualized viewpoints about what aspect of drug action delights our intellectual curiosities. Still it is this passion to understand everything about a drug that drives our need to uncover the essence of a chemical's effect on living cells and tissues, and ultimately how it ...

The paper presents data on the organisation of the Museum tobacco exhibition, i.e. the professional processing of the material from the Smoking Accessories collection of the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, insight into the holdings of other museums, archives, private collections and individuals, and field exploration. Particular emphasis was placed on national references on the cultivation and c...

In 1992, the Faculty of Environmental Design at the University of Montreal added multidisciplinary workshops to its academic program with the intention to encourage collaboration and communication between disciplines and to prepare students for the collaborative aspect in their professional life. However, experience has shown that simply joining disciplines is not sufficient. Established bounda...