The accreditation of information technology executive officers is being approached in this article as a problem of multicriteria decision analysis of professional skills, studies and vocational training. The proposed approach includes the analysis and modelling of the qualitative criteria that fall into the problem as well as the implementation of a set of multicriteria aggregation-disaggregati...

THE fact that a second edition of Dr. Keith Hodgkin's book "Towards Earlier Diagnosis" has had to be published only three years after the first edition is a striking testimony to its worth. Vocational training for general practice is one aspect of post-graduate medical education which is exercising the minds of many doctors today. This book, which consists chiefly of concise and systematic reco...

Vocational trainees in the North Western region who were in their general practice year completed a questionnaire concerning the hospital component of their training. Replies were received from 125 trainees, providing information about 451 hospital posts. In a total of 372 posts (85%) less than two hours of formal teaching a week was provided. Trainees stated that they received no informal teac...