The Commission on Dental Accreditation (CODA) requires that General Practice Residency (GPR) programs report a summary of each resident's clinical experiences. The goal of this study was to determine the effectiveness of handheld computer technology in tracking residents' clinical procedures. In the academic years 2004-05 and 2005-06, University of Kentucky GPR residents were provided a Palm M1...

John Aloizos is a part-time GP in Brisbane and is currently Chairman of the Australian Pharmaceutical Advisory Council, and a member of the Australian Health Information Council, where he Chairs the Electronic Decision Support Steering Committee. He is a former member of the General Practice Computing Group Management Committee and the General Practice Partnership Advisory Council. He was the i...

The opportunities for significant research in general practice are nearly unlimited. All that is required is an open mind, normal powers of seeing, and confidence in the accuracy of our observations. Very little is known about the significance of symptoms, and nearly every patient will provide data of some sort provided he is listened to and observed with interest and sympathy. Many of us erron...

The American Association of Physicists in Medicine (AAPM) is a nonprofit professional society whose primary purposes are to advance the science, education, and professional practice of medical physics. The AAPM has more than 8,000 members and is the principal organization of medical physicists in the United States. The AAPM will periodically define new practice guidelines for medical physics pr...

BACKGROUND Patient engagement in clinical practice guideline (CPG) development is recommended by multiple institutions and instruments measuring guideline quality. Approaches to engaging patients, however, vary between oversight organizations, quality tools and guideline developers. OBJECTIVE We propose a ten-step framework outlining steps and options for patient engagement in guideline devel...

BACKGROUND Health care is increasingly provided in general practice. To meet this demand, the English Department of Health recommends that 50% of all medical students should train for general practice after qualification. Currently 19% of medical students express general practice as their first career choice. Undergraduate exposure to general practice positively influences future career choice....

As the evidence for oncology nursing practice expands exponentially, nurse clinicians, including oncology nurses, are faced with a growing demand to integrate evolving contemporary evidence into practice. Models such as the Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) Framework (University of Pennsylvania Health System [UPHS] Nursing Research Committee, 1999) (see Figure 1), as well as the Oncology Nursing So...

  Background and Aim: Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‑CoV‑2) that caused the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is transmitted through close contact via respiratory droplets when an infected patient sneezes, coughs, or talks. Due to close contact with patients, dentists are at higher risk of COVID-19. The aim of this study was to evaluate...

abstract this study was conducted with the objective of investigating the practice of teaching early reading comprehension. the study was carried out in sixty-six grade 2 government primary schools found in snnpr state in gedeo zone,ethiopia, in the academic year 2015. sixty-six english language teachers were subjects of the study. the study employed mixed method, specifically quant-qual one. d...

This study aimed to examine the policies in the Iranian English for Academic Purposes (EAP) education and the extent to which objectives match the policies and are materialized in practice. To this end, course descriptions in the syllabi for the EAP programs were evaluated through document analysis and triangulated with the experts’ perspectives through interviews to examine the current status ...