Purpose To examine relationships between pharmaceutical representatives and obstetrician–gynecologists and identify factors associated with self-reported reliance on representatives when making prescribing decisions. Method In 2006–2007, questionnaires were mailed to 515 randomly selected physicians in the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists’ Collaborative Ambulatory Research Ne...

Effectively developing professionalism requires a programmatic view on how medical ethics and humanities should be incorporated into an educational continuum that begins in premedical studies, stretches across medical school and residency, and is sustained throughout one's practice. The Project to Rebalance and Integrate Medical Education National Conference on Medical Ethics and Humanities in ...

A survey of the involvement in and attitudes towards continuing medical education of 101 general practitioners achieved a 95% response rate. Ninety per cent of the 96 doctors worked in practices which held meetings the content of which was organized by representatives of pharmaceutical companies but only 46% worked in practices which organized their own educational meetings. Seventy six per cen...

OBJECTIVES To explore how representatives from organisations with responsibility for doctors in training perceive risks to the educational progression of UK medical graduates from black and minority ethnic groups (BME UKGs), and graduates of non-UK medical schools (international medical graduates (IMGs)). To identify the barriers to and facilitators of change. DESIGN Qualitative semistructure...

OBJECTIVES Polypharmacy and multimorbidity are common in long-term care facilities (LTCFs). Reducing polypharmacy may reduce adverse events and maintain quality of life. Deprescribing refers to reducing medications after consideration of therapeutic goals, benefits and risks, and medical ethics. The objective was to use nominal group technique (NGT) to generate then rank factors that general me...

The $b$-parts, $b$-addition of real numbers and some their
 extensions (e.g., $f$-multiplications) were introduced studied
 by the author. In this paper, we introduce $f$-representatives
 groups a given group $(G,\cdot)$ which can be considered as a
 generalization least non-negative residues
 (modulo $n$). Thereafter, study their important
 properties relations am...