BACKGROUND There is very little information available on self-perceived competence levels of junior medical doctors with regard to definitions by the National Core Curriculum (NCC) for Undergraduate Medical Education. AIMS This study aims to determine the perceived level of competence of residents during undergraduate medical education within the context of the NCC. STUDY DESIGN Descriptive...

Significant energy and carbon originate in the existing built environment retrofit is therefore a key reduction strategy. However heritage buildings -comprising around 20% of UK buildings- are challenging to appropriately due their historical values traditional construction. Retrofit savings dependent on current use which strongly influenced by residents’ behaviours, decisions for domestic gene...

In the well-known Hospitals/Residents problem (HR), objective is to find a stable matching of doctors (or residents) hospitals based on their preference lists. this paper, we study HRCT, extension HR in which are allowed apply couples, and can include ties We first review three stability definitions that have been proposed literature for HRC (the restriction HRCT where not allowed) extend them ...

The animation of synthetic faces is still a low-level process requiring much human expertise and hw/sw resources. The constraint-based facial animation editor system, FESINC, provides two kinds of support: allows the a-priory, declarative definition of dynamical expressions and requirements, and assures that while making the animation, these requirements are fulfilled. The novelty of the approa...

BACKGROUND Since the mid-1980s, medical residents' long duty hours have been under scrutiny as a factor affecting patient safety and the work environment for the residents. After several mandated changes in duty hours, it is important to understand how residents spend their time before proposing and implementing future changes. Time-motion methodology may provide reliable information on what re...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate a quantitative abstraction method for Communication Quality Assurance projects to assess physicians' communication about hidden emotions after newborn genetic screening. DESIGN Communication quality indicator analysis. SETTING Standardized parent encounters performed in practicing physicians' clinics or during educational workshops for residents. PARTICIPANTS Fift...

BACKGROUND The risk of infection following a visit to the emergency department is unknown. We explored this risk among elderly residents of long-term care facilities. METHODS We compared the rates of new respiratory and gastrointestinal infections among elderly residents aged 65 years and older of 22 long-term care facilities. We used standardized surveillance definitions. For each resident w...

PURPOSE This study explored how nursing home residents define quality of care. DESIGN AND METHODS Data were collected through in-depth interviews and were analyzed using grounded dimensional analysis. RESULTS Residents defined quality in three ways: (a) Care-as-service residents focused on instrumental aspects of care. They assessed quality using the parameters of efficiency, competence, an...

OBJECTIVE Although decline in functional status has been recommended as a quality indicator in long-term care, studies examining its use provide no consensus on which definition of functional status outcome is the most appropriate to use for quality assessment. We examined whether different definitions of decline in functional status affect judgments of quality of care provided in Department of...

This paper mirrors an invited talk to ISCISC 2011. It is not a conventional paper so much as an essay summarizing thoughts on a little-talked-about subject. My goal is to intermix some introspection about definitions with examples of them, these examples drawn mostly from cryptography. Underpinning our discussion are two themes. The first is that definitions are constructed. They are i...