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An Analysis Of Major Issues For Culturally-Minded Professionals In Women's Health Care, Victoria Clark
An Analysis Of Major Issues For Culturally-Minded Professionals In Women's Health Care, Victoria Clark
Victoria Clark
Asking Questions, Seeking Improvements, Dennis J. Baumgardner
Asking Questions, Seeking Improvements, Dennis J. Baumgardner
Dennis J. Baumgardner, MD
The author connects the rapid growth of scientific journals to the inquisitiveness of committed health professionals and their persistent efforts to improve patient care.
Has Novelty In Healthcare Gone A Little Stale?, Ray Moynihan
Has Novelty In Healthcare Gone A Little Stale?, Ray Moynihan
Ray Moynihan
Extract: Although drugs are essential, the roar of their marketing distorts decision making in favour of the newest and most expensive pills at the expense of older ones or of non-drug approaches. New diagnostic technologies offer undreamt of opportunities to detect ever earlier signs of illness, but they have also brought the increasingly recognised risk of overdiagnosis. Much has been written about how promotion can drive inappropriate use of valuable technologies, but does our deep love affair with novelty deserve more scrutiny?
Environmental Health Information Systems: More Than Just Gigabytes, Christopher R. Cook
Environmental Health Information Systems: More Than Just Gigabytes, Christopher R. Cook
Christopher Cook
Environmental health professionals are concerned about bites. Animal bites, mosquito bites, and tick bites to name a few. But what about bytes of data? Environmental health information systems (EHIS) are often the "silent partners" in an environmental health (EH) department's daily protection of public health. By Webster's dictionary definition, a silent partner is a cohort that does not have the right to participate in an organization's management process. The purpose of this study was to encourage public health officials to make EHIS full partners in their EH departments. Through the use of five surveys, this study was designed to increase …
Environmental Health Information Systems: More Than Just Gigabytes, Christopher R. Cook
Environmental Health Information Systems: More Than Just Gigabytes, Christopher R. Cook
Christopher Cook
Environmental health professionals are concerned about bites. Animal bites, mosquito bites, and tick bites to name a few. But what about bytes of data? Environmental health information systems (EHIS) are often the "silent partners" in an environmental health (EH) department's daily protection of public health. By Webster's dictionary definition, a silent partner is a cohort that does not have the right to participate in an organization's management process. The purpose of this study was to encourage public health officials to make EHIS full partners in their EH departments. Through the use of five surveys, this study was designed to increase …
Techne Or Artful Science And The Genre Of Case Presentations In Healthcare Settings, Catherine Schryer, Lorelei Lingard, Marlee Spafford
Techne Or Artful Science And The Genre Of Case Presentations In Healthcare Settings, Catherine Schryer, Lorelei Lingard, Marlee Spafford
Lorelei Lingard
This paper presents a qualitative study that investigated the role of case presentations in the socialization of medical and optometry students. Using the debate from classical rhetoric around the term techne (art or science), we observed that genre theory helps explain the way case presentations mediate the development of professional identity through the interaction of certain knowledge (techne 1), “savvy” knowledge (techne 2), and ethical reflection (phronesis). We noted that these mediated scenes of learning are necessary but problematic because they can lead students to yearn for certainty and to exclude outsiders (other healthcare providers, patients). Finally, our research challenges …
Towards Embracing Clinical Uncertainty: Lessons From Social Work, Optometry And Medicine, Marlee Spafford, Catherine Schryer, Sandra Campbell, Lorelei Lingard
Towards Embracing Clinical Uncertainty: Lessons From Social Work, Optometry And Medicine, Marlee Spafford, Catherine Schryer, Sandra Campbell, Lorelei Lingard
Lorelei Lingard
Summary: The oral transmission and transformation of client information in an apprenticeship setting provides a rich environment in which to observe students and their expert supervisors managing uncertainty. In this Canadian-based study, we examined the communicative features of 12 social work supervisions involving social work students and their supervisors and enriched our observations with subsequent interviews of the participants.
Findings: Social work students viewed the acknowledgement and examination of uncertainty as a touchstone of competent social work. This observation contrasted with our past study of medical and optometry students who focused on personal deficit and a distrust of …