Lifestyle Medicine

2011 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Garry Egger ◽  
Sam Egger
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Lifestyle Medicine ◽  
Australian Health ◽  
Disease Patterns ◽  
Professional Development Training ◽  
Developed World

Changes in disease patterns from predominantly infectious to predominantly chronic diseases in Australia, in line with economic development throughout the developed world, have led to the need for changes in conventional health practice. This has resulted in a movement toward an evidence-based discipline of lifestyle medicine incorporating aspects of both public health and clinical medicine, aimed at moderating lifestyle and environmentally based etiologies. A professional association, postgraduate and continuing professional development training, working text, interactive Web site, and annual conference, as described here, are designed to complement conventional medical knowledge and practices. Changes to the Australian health system, which operates on a dual public/private model have made this approach more feasible and continue to be adapted to allow a more comprehensive approach to lifestyle-related health problems.

scholarly journals Practical Negotiation for Medical Professionals

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (04) ◽  
pp. 166-171 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bradley Eisemann ◽  
Ryan Wagner ◽  
Edward Reece
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Medical Innovation ◽  
Medical Field ◽  
Residency Programs ◽  
Clinical Patient ◽  
Negotiation Strategies ◽  
Business Acumen ◽  
Time And Energy

AbstractDespite incredible advances in medical innovation and education, many students finish medical school, and physicians finish residency, without sound business acumen regarding the financial realities of the modern profession. The curriculum in medical schools and residency programs too often neglects teaching the business of medicine. This overview addresses how physicians can utilize effective negotiation strategies to help develop a medical practice or add value to an existing practice or institution. The authors applied the six foundations of effective negotiating, detailed by Richard Shell in his Bargaining for Advantage, to the medical field to demonstrate the processes involved in effective negotiating. They then outlined a strategy for physicians to adopt when negotiating and showed how this strategy can be used to add value. The six foundations include: developing a personal bargaining style, setting realistic goals, determining authoritative standards, establishing relationships, exploring the other party's interests, and gaining leverage. As physicians complete training, the ability to solely focus on medical knowledge and clinical patient care disappears. It is crucial that physicians invest the time and energy into preparing for the business aspects of this profession in much the same way they prepare for the clinical care of patients. This overview seeks to define the basics of negotiation, characterize the application of negotiation principles toward clinical medicine, and lay the foundation for further discussion and investigation.

scholarly journals A MOOC approach for training researchers in developing countries

Open Praxis ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 45 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ravi Murugesan ◽  
Andy Nobes ◽  
Joanna Wild
Keyword(s):  
Developing Countries ◽  
Social Presence ◽  
Developing World ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Cognitive Presence ◽  
Online Course ◽  
Research Writing ◽  
Massive Open Online ◽  
Massive Open Online Course ◽  
Professional Development Training

We report on an online course in research writing offered in a massive open online course (MOOC) format for developing country researchers. The concepts of cognitive presence, teacher presence, and social presence informed the design of the course, with a philosophy of strong social interaction supported by guest facilitators. The course was developed with low-bandwidth elements and hosted on a Moodle site. It was offered twice as a MOOC and 2830 learners from more than 90 countries, mainly in the developing world, took part. The average completion rate was 53%. Female learners and learners who were active in the forums were more likely to complete the course. Our MOOC approach may be a useful model for continuing professional development training in the developing world.

A rural approach to quality improvement for small rural hospitals: Lessons from rural Texas

2019 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 75-79
Author(s):  
Robert S. Steele ◽  
Elizabeth F. Wenghofer ◽  
Tammy Wagner ◽  
Peter Yu ◽  
Nancy W. Dickey
Keyword(s):  
Rural Areas ◽  
Effective Means ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Pilot Project ◽  
Quality And Safety ◽  
Northern Ontario ◽  
Professional Isolation ◽  
Survey Responses ◽  
Rural Physician

This article describes the Rural Physician Peer Review Program (RPPR©) developed by the Texas A&M Rural and Community Health Institute and presents it as an example of a program that could be implemented in rural Canada as an effective means of continuing professional development (CPD) for rural Canadian physicians. RPPR© post review survey responses from 574 physician participants across rural Texas indicate that they are highly satisfied with RPPR© and that their competency in medical knowledge and patient care improves as a result of participation. A pilot project with two to four northern Ontario hospitals would enable RPPR© to be modified to ensure applicability and feasibility in the northern Ontario context to create an RPPR© “North.” New and innovative approaches to CPD for rural northern physicians need to be continually explored to decrease professional isolation, improve recruitment and retention, and ultimately improve the quality and safety of healthcare in rural areas.

Reconstructing Medical Problem Solving Competence: MACCORD

1993 ◽  
Vol 32 (04) ◽  
pp. 326-338
Author(s):  
B. Petkoff ◽  
H. Mannebach ◽  
S. Kirkby ◽  
D. Kraus
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Clinical Medicine ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Medical Problem ◽  
Knowledge Based Systems ◽  
Levels Of Abstraction ◽  
Knowledge Based ◽  
Methodological Principles ◽  
Problem Solving Behavior ◽  
Medical Reasoning

AbstractThe building of medical knowledge-based systems involves the reconstruction of methodological principles and structures within the various subdomains of medicine. ACCORD is a general methodology of knowledge-based systems, and MACCORD its application to medicine. MACCORD represents the problem solving behavior of the medical expert in terms of various types of medical reasoning and at various levels of abstraction. With MACCORD the epistemic and cognitive processes in clinical medicine can be described in formal terminology, covering the entire diversity of medical reasoning. MACCORD is close enough to formalization to make a significant contribution to the fields of medical knowledge acquisition, medical didactics and the analysis and application of medical problem solving methods.

scholarly journals Continuing professional development training needs of medical laboratory personnel in Botswana

2014 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ishmael Kasvosve ◽  
Jenny H Ledikwe ◽  
Othilia Phumaphi ◽  
Mulamuli Mpofu ◽  
Robert Nyangah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Professional Development ◽  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Medical Laboratory ◽  
Laboratory Personnel ◽  
Professional Development Training

scholarly journals Histoire de la santé publique et communautaire en Afrique. Le rôle des médecins de la mission suisse en Afrique du Sud

Gesnerus ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 72 (1) ◽  
pp. 135-158
Author(s):  
Hines Mabika
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Community Health ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
The Political ◽  
Medical Doctors ◽  
Health Practice ◽  
Political Struggle ◽  
Afrique Du Sud ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
History Of

It was not Dutch settlers nor British colonizers who introduced public and community health practice in north-eastern South Africa but medical doctors of the Swiss mission in southern Africa. While the history of medical knowledge transfer into 19th–20th century Africa emphasises colonial powers, this paper shows how countries without colonies contributed to expand western medical cultures, including public health. The Swiss took advantage of the local authorities’ negligence, and implemented their own model of medicalization of African societies, understood as the way of improving health standards. They moved from a tolerated hospital-centred medicine to the practice of community health, which was uncommon at the time. Elim hospital’s physicians moved back boundaries of segregationist policies, and sometime gave the impression of being involved in the political struggle against Apartheid. Thus, Swiss public health activities could later be seen as sorts of seeds that were planted and would partly reappear in 1994 with the ANC-projected national health policy.

scholarly journals Challenges posed by novel vaccines in a hyperlinked society both to doctors and the health of their patients

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Alojz Ihan
Keyword(s):  
18Th Century ◽  
Vaccine Development ◽  
Medical Knowledge ◽  
Modern Medicine ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Ethical Considerations ◽  
Medical Progress ◽  
Legal Questions ◽  
Late 18Th Century ◽  
Developed World

Medicine in the developed world is becoming progressively more commercialized since patients (or, more accurately, medical consumers) are increasingly becoming the driving force of what we call medical progress. The doctors are primarily obliged to treat and help patients, but will always have also (commercial) temptation before him: to facilitate the consumer's desires and, with a warm heart, shoot to the far borders of medical knowledge and technology. A good example illustrating dilemma of beneficial vs commercial medicine are ethical challenges of some new vaccines developed recently. Since their earliest introduction in the late 18th century, vaccines have undoubtedly saved the lives of millions, while also fundamentally changing the way modern medicine is practiced. Many diseases that were once widespread are now eradicated, yet vaccine development faces ongoing challenges, including some important ethical considerations. Today there are over 300 vaccines in development and included in clinical trials. Among them, anti-addiction vaccines (Cocaine, Nicotine, Fentanyl, Heroin, Oxycodone) received a burst of media attention, because these vaccines could help people in recovery from addiction; however, many ethical and legal questions may arise before clinical use.

scholarly journals Lecturers’ Training Needs in EMI Programmes: Beyond Language Competence

2021 ◽  
pp. 83
Author(s):  
Ana María Piquer-Píriz ◽  
Irene Olga Castellano-Risco
Keyword(s):  
Continuing Professional Development ◽  
Training Needs ◽  
Linguistic Competence ◽  
State University ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Ongoing Training ◽  
Open Questions ◽  
Professional Development Training ◽  
The One ◽  
Training Programmes

This paper reports the results of an analysis of English as a Medium Instruction (EMI) lecturers’ training needs at a Spanish state university. In order to carry out this analysis, participants were asked to complete a quantitative questionnaire and participate in a survey with open questions adapted from Pérez-Cañado 2020). Both analysis tools explored the lecturers’ needs in relation to specific areas: linguistic competence, methodology, materials and resources, continuing professional development training and their overall rating of the EMI programme. The results show that, on the one hand, EMI teachers feel that their linguistic competence is sufficient to conduct classes in English. On the other hand, participants seem less confident as far as their methodological competence is concerned and call for more specific ongoing training. These findings are mostly in consonance with the results of other studies carried out in similar contexts (Dafouz 2018; Macaro et al. 2019; Pérez-Cañado 2020; Coelho in preparation) but they also provide some new insights which should be taken into consideration in the design of specific training programmes for lecturers involved in EMI in Higher Education.

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