This paper retells some of the achievements and personal attributes of Sir Samuel Wilks, one of the great Guy’s Hospital physicians and neurologists of the second half of the 19th century. He was a fellow of the Royal Society, president of the Royal College of Physicians, and physician extraordinary to Queen Victoria. A prolific author and original observer of clinical and pathological diseases...

Abstract This paper addresses how emotionally challenging experiences during work-based education may influence the professional becoming of student teachers and medical students. We conducted a qualitative analysis eight focus group interviews with undergraduates from two universities in Sweden who studied to become either physicians or teachers, interpreted their through Wenger’s theory commu...

Effective communication is essential for understanding and recall of hospital discharge information. This study aimed to explore information, patient involvement in encounters. We conducted an explorative observational at a secondary care level, ward. Patients discharged their home were asked participate. 34 patients assessed eligibility, which 13 included the analysis. Multiple sources data co...

DETERMINANTS OF JOB SATISFACION AND TURNOVER AMONG PHYSICIANS by Dustin P. Kaplan This study examined the determinants of job satisfaction and turnover among physicians at the University of California, San Diego. The relationship between eight predictor variables (administrative requirements, autonomy, ability to provide quality patient care, workload, work/private life conflict, pay, satisfact...

BACKGROUND The physicians' competency is an important public health issue around the world. Several international organizations have taken the lead in examining the competencies required to be a physician. The purpose of this study is to identify subgroups of physicians' competency based upon the importance results of competency evaluation and provide a scientific basis for the qualitative rese...

BACKGROUND Psychosocial risks represent a great challenge for safety and health protection at work in Europe. The purpose of this study has been to determine the relationships of psychosocial risks arising from work, stress, personal characteristics and burnout among physicians and nurses in the Emergency Medical Service (EMS). MATERIAL AND METHODS We performed a cross-sectional study based o...

BACKGROUND Given the great public demand for unconventional medicines (UM) in most Western countries, the aim of this study was to assess the attitudes to, and supply of, UM by physicians in Italy. METHODS A cross-sectional survey of all of the physicians belonging to the Ordine dei Medici of the province of Parma was carried out by means of an anonymous questionnaire mailed to 2631 physician...

BACKGROUND Fever is an extremely common sign in paediatric patients and the most common cause for a child to be taken to the doctor. The literature indicates that physicians and parents have too many misconceptions and conflicting results about fever management. In this study we aim to identify knowledge, attitudes and misconceptions of primary care physicians regarding fever in children. MET...

865 PHYSICIAN ABANDONMENT of the imminently dying patient is an ancient medical tradition that is deeply rooted in the culture of biomedicine and has stood the test of time. The origin of this curious practice can be traced back to Hippocrates1,2 who supposedly recommended that physicians should abandon the desperately ill. Hippocrates is thought to have made this recommendation for the followi...