There is great interest in the topic of resilient cyber systems. However, much of the accompanying research is clouded by a lack of an appropriate definition of the term “resilience” and the challenges of measuring the actual resilience of a system. In this paper, we examine some of the lessons learned in defining resilience metrics and argue that such metrics are highly contextual, and that a ...

BACKGROUND Physician well-being impacts both doctors and patients. In light of high rates of physician burnout, enhancing resilience is a priority. To inform effective interventions, educators need to understand how resilience develops during residency. METHODS A qualitative study using grounded theory examined the lived experience of resilience in residents. A cohort of obstetrics and gyneco...

Objective. The health and well being of medical doctors is vital to their longevity and safe practice. The concept of resilience is recognised as a key component of well being and is an important factor in medical training to help doctors learn to cope with challenge, stress, and adversity. This study examined the relationship of resilience to personality traits and resilience in doctors in ord...

ABSTRACf This study is concerned with detailed expansions for the renewal function H(t) and various of its generalizations. Our assumptions concerning the growth rate of the tail of the underlying lifetime distribution F(x) are of the form f: x\lM(x)dF(x) < co, where \I ~ 0 and M(x) belongs to an appropriate class of monotone functions. l~en F(x) has a finite variance, it is shown that (for t >...

BACKGROUND Faculties face the permanent challenge to design training programs with well-balanced educational outcomes, and to offer various organised and individual learning opportunities. AIM To apply our original model to a postgraduate training program in rheumatology in general, and to various learning experiences in particular, in order to analyse the balance between different educationa...

PURPOSE This study aims to coconstruct the building blocks for an intervention program to support family resilience in conjunction with families with an adolescent suffering from traumatic brain injury and rehabilitation professionals. DESIGN This is a qualitative and inductive study, supported by a collaborative research approach. METHODS Based on the complex intervention design and valida...

public health management is a pillar of public health practice. only through effective management can research, theory, and scientific innovation be translated into successful public health action. with this in mind, the u.s. centers for disease control and prevention (cdc) has developed an innovative program called improving public health management for action (impact) which aims to address th...