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A Pilot Survey: Retention In Pain Medicine Among Fellowship Trained Anesthesiologists, Sarang S Koushik, Kelly Leap, Kenneth Seier, Kay See Tan, Naum Shaparin, Alan D Kaye, Omar Viswanath, Grant H Chen
A Pilot Survey: Retention In Pain Medicine Among Fellowship Trained Anesthesiologists, Sarang S Koushik, Kelly Leap, Kenneth Seier, Kay See Tan, Naum Shaparin, Alan D Kaye, Omar Viswanath, Grant H Chen
Faculty and Staff Publications
BACKGROUND: We aim to explore the factors related to job satisfaction among pain physicians and identify the reasons why individuals minimize or stop practicing outpatient pain medicine.
OBJECTIVES/STUDY DESIGN: This is a survey-based study with the primary goal to identify factors determining job satisfaction and dissatisfaction among pain medicine fellowship graduates who continue to practice and those who are no longer practicing interventional pain. A secondary goal is to elucidate reasons for anesthesiologists trained in pain medicine to leave pain medicine, despite an additional year of training, and to work as general anesthesiologists.
METHODS: In this study, all 114 pain …
Medical Schools Ignore The Nature Of Consciousness At Great Cost, Anoop Kumar
Medical Schools Ignore The Nature Of Consciousness At Great Cost, Anoop Kumar
Journal of Wellness
The essential question of the relationship between consciousness and matter is ignored in medical school curricula, leading to a machine-like view of the human being that contributes to physician burnout and intellectual dissatisfaction. The evidence suggesting that the brain may not be the seat of consciousness is generally ignored to preserve the worldview of the primacy of matter. By investigating new frameworks detailing the nature of consciousness at different levels of hierarchy, we can bring intellectual rigor to a once opaque subject that supports a fundamental reality about our experience: We are human beings, not only human bodies.
Predictors Of Situation Awareness In Graduate Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Suzanne Wright
Predictors Of Situation Awareness In Graduate Student Registered Nurse Anesthetists, Suzanne Wright
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ABSTRACT PREDICTORS OF SITUATION AWARENESS IN GRADUATE STUDENT REGISTERED NURSE ANESTHETISTS Suzanne M. Wright, Ph.D. A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy at Virginia Commonwealth University. Virginia Commonwealth University, 2009 Major Director: J. James Cotter, Ph.D. Situation awareness (SA) is defined as one’s perception of the elements of the environment, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their status in the near future. Stated more simply, SA is knowing what is going on around you. The concept of SA is well known in the field of aviation which is …