Medicine is a science of uncertainty and an art of probability. - Sir William Osler [1] While probabilistic considerations have always been fundamental to medical reasoning, formal probabilistic arguments have only become ubiquitous in the medical literature in recent decades [2,3]. Meanwhile, many ...
Selection of medical students in the UK is still largely based on prior academic achievement, although doubts have been expressed as to whether performance in earlier life is predictive of outcomes later in medical school or post-graduate education. This
The hospital wards (n = 10) were internal medicine wards (n = 4) and surgical wards (n = 6) from four hospitals. The nursing home wards (n = 10) were wards with patients with physical impairments (no dementia)(n = 7) or reha- bilitation wards (n = 3) from six nursing homes....
Internal Medicine IV (Diabetes, Endocrinology, Angiology, Nephrology and Clinical Chemistry), University Hospital of Tübingen, Germany, 2Department of Internal Medicine II (General Internal and Psychosomatic Medicine), University Hospital of Heidelberg, Germany, 3Department of Internal Medicine VI (...
Full-time working specialists in internal medicine in 2004 still expressed concerns about the investments of part-timers in overhead tasks and the flexibility of task division with the increasing number of doctors working part-time. However, De Jong et al. [21] showed that part-time specialists...
Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London and the GMC’s process for Brunel University London to be permitted to recruit medical students for the launch a new medical school. She is a member of the HEE Medical Doctors’ Apprenticeship Implementation Group and been a board member ...
Section of General Internal Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA Maryam Mooghali, Joseph S. Ross & Jennifer E. Miller Biomedical Ethics Research Program, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, MN, USA Austin M. Stroud School of Information, Kent State Univers...
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Not all doctors however suffer from burnout, in large part because doctors, like all people, differ, in personality, background, working environment, and so on [5]. The result, as Osler said, is that: 'To each one of you the practice of medicine will be very much as you make it ....
Journal of General Internal Medicine 1997, 12:274-283. 4. Teesson M, Hall W, Lynskey M, Degenhardt L: Alcohol- and drug- use disorders in Australia: implications of the National Sur- vey of Mental Health and WellBeing. Aust N Z J Psychiatry 2000, 34:206-213. 5. WHO Brief ...