scholarly journals An Academic Department of Anaesthesia in a New Canadian Medical School

1981 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-52
Author(s):  
John R. A. Rigg
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Health Sciences ◽  
Academic Department ◽  
Canadian Medical School ◽  
Clinical Anaesthesia ◽  
Educational Programmes ◽  
Regional Organisation

The development of an academic department of anaesthesia over its first ten years at McMaster Medical School in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, is described. The organisation and goals of the department are described within the context of the regional organisation of health care delivery and of the functions of the faculty of health sciences. The activities of department members in various educational programmes, particularly the undergraduate and postgraduate programmes, are described in detail and the roles of the department in research and clinical anaesthesia and related clinical activities are also described. The role of an academic department of anaesthesia within a community of specialist anaesthetists is discussed.

Embodied Spatial Practices and the Power to Care

2019 ◽  
pp. 360-377
Author(s):  
Elise Paradis ◽  
Warren Mark Liew ◽  
Myles Leslie
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Critical Care ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Critical Care Units ◽  
Interprofessional Care ◽  
The Social

Drawing on an ethnographic study of teamwork in critical care units (CCUs), this chapter applies Henri Lefebvre’s ([1974] 1991) theoretical insights to an analysis of clinicians’ and patients’ embodied spatial practices. Lefebvre’s triadic framework of conceived, lived, and perceived spaces draws attention to the role of bodies in the production and negotiation of power relations among nurses, physicians, and patients within the CCU. Three ethnographic vignettes—“The Fight,” “The Parade,” and “The Plan”—explore how embodied spatial practices underlie the complexities of health care delivery, making visible the hidden narratives of conformity and resistance that characterize interprofessional care hierarchies. The social orderings of bodies in space are consequential: seeing them is the first step in redressing them.

HEALTH-CARE-DELIVERY-CENTER-JUNGLE

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 60 (2) ◽  
pp. 234-234
Author(s):  
William B. Bean ◽  
R. J. H.
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Technical Colleges ◽  
Medical Science ◽  
Medical Schools ◽  
Land Grant ◽  
Wise Person ◽  
Modern Health Care

If only some wise person or group had established land grant medical schools as well as technical colleges, the gravitational tug of medical science into laboratories would have been balanced by the daily correctives which the practical art of caring for the ill and ailing brings. This might have avoided the dissociation and fragmentation which seem to follow so regularly when a medical school-hospital collaboration is transmogrified into a teeming unzoned megalopolis-the modern health-care-delivery-center-jungle.

The Pediatric Nurse Associate

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1976 ◽  
Vol 57 (5) ◽  
pp. 813-814
Author(s):  
Robert D. Burnett ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Child Health ◽  
American Academy ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
Child Health Care ◽  
Pediatric Nurse ◽  
The Past ◽  
American Academy Of Pediatrics

During the past several years as Chairman of the American Academy of Pediatrics' Committee on Pediatric Manpower I have witnessed the development of the concept of the pediatric nurse associate (PNA) within the specialty of pediatrics. In addition, I have also been aware of the controversies within the AAP membership regarding the role of the PNA in child health care delivery. Many of you will recall the concern of the mid-1960's which widely publicized an impending catastrophic shortage of pediatricians.

Projection of pediatric manpower requirements

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1977 ◽  
Vol 59 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-324
Author(s):  
Robert D. Burnett ◽  
Mary Kaye Willian ◽  
Richard W. Olmsted
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Medical School ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
The United States ◽  
Physician Shortage ◽  
Access To Health Services ◽  
Access To Health ◽  
The 1960S

In the 1960s, predictions were made that the United States faced a "physician shortage."1,2 On the basis of these predictions, federal legislation subsidized the establishment of new medical schools and the expansion of those in existence. From 1968 to 1974, the number of medical school graduates rose from 7,973 to 11,613.3 Nevertheless, problems of availability of, and access to, health services remain. Mere increase in number of physicians is not the solution to the problem of health care delivery in the United States; in fact, there is concern that we now face an oversupply of physicians.4 The recently published Carnegie report recommends that only "one" new medical school be established.5

The Expanding Role of Clinical Sociology in Australia

2009 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 56-62
Author(s):  
Les Spencer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Delivery System ◽  
Health Care Delivery ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Care Delivery ◽  
The United States ◽  
Health Care Delivery System ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Australian Health

This paper introduces clinical sociology as a humanistic, multidisciplinary specialty seeking to improve the quality of people's lives. It traces the emergence of clinical sociology in the United States in 1931, and in Australia in the late 1950s in the context of the pioneering clinical sociology research into social transformation at Australian society's margins by Neville Yeomans. A contemporary illustration is given demonstrating how a biopyschosocial model of health is now being implemented as world best-evidence-based practice within the Australian health care delivery system. Further arguments, citing national and international evidence based on sociotherapeutic models of intervention, support a proposal for the Australian Sociology Association to engage in dialogues with health care agencies with the view of establishing clinical sociologists as an integral part of the Australian health-care delivery system.

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