Questionnaires designed to determine the major factors affecting the choice of practice were mailed to 305 graduates of the University of Oklahoma Tulsa Medical College and their spouses. Sixty-eight percent of the physicians responded. The results showed that graduates reared in large communities chose similar-sized communities as practice sites and ...

Investigations were conducted on the traditional life, culture and medical lore of some prominent scheduled caste communities, namely Pulayar, Kuravar, Vedar, Parayar and Nayadi, inhabiting the Travancore region of Kerala. These communities were perhaps some of the original inhabitants of Kerala who have evolved their own peculiar cultural traditions, religious ...

The posterior channel of duplicated urethrae usually follows a straight course to end in the perineum just inside the anal verge. This unique urethra dipped into the perineum and then turned cephalad to enter the rectum above the anus. Delineation of the course of the urethra simplified management by assisting ...

Physicians and sports medicine professionals are, by the interpersonal nature of their work, professional communicators. Communication, being multidimensional, requires attentiveness not only to proper outward health practices but also to the internal response of the patient. The format described here and outlined in Table 1 gives a practical model to ...

This imaginary letter to a hospital president examines current literature on management and outlines those traits that are applicable to the healthcare field. According to the findings, effective managers have a flair for communication; are persistent, reliable, and coherent; have positive self-regard; focus their energy and attention only on the ...

The key to executive success is management of the information overload provided by today's high technology era. Team building, through identification of behavioral styles, helps to enhance self-esteem, utilize inherent skills of individuals, and maximize decision making. The style of the team leader who shares leadership promotes communication patterns that ...

A management seminar miniseries for training hospital pharmacy residents is described. A series of lectures and workshops on the administrative aspects of hospital pharmacy practice are an integral part of a 2400-hour residency training program. Hospital pharmacy practice, clinical pharmacy practice, communication skills, and pharmacy administration and personnel management are ...

A myth of trusteeship--that governance is the central role of board members--has been difficult for trustees to put into practice. The process of initiating new trustees implicitly communicates a set of largely unspoken practices that do not fulfill the myth. In actual practice, trustees find themselves involved in management, rather ...

Historically, the black church has been the preserver and the perpetuator of the black ethos, the radix from which its defining values and norms have been generated, and the autonomous social institution that has provided order and meaning to the black experience in the United States. The traditional ethic of ...

When a well-seasoned administrator offers to teach a course in general medical practice management to a group of resident doctors, it can lead to an enriching experience for everyone involved. The residents benefit educationally, the administrator personally, and his group financially. Even the community and the field of management stand ...

Like other marvels of the electronic age, teleconferencing has been both oversold and underused. Though it has many potential uses, what managers know, or think they know, about it is generally based on misconceptions. Rather than relying only on vendors of teleconferencing, potential purchasers should first decide what their communication ...

A large gap presently exists between the predominantly biologic expertise of the medical profession and the complex mixture of biologic, behavioural and epidemiologic components of health problems today. Furthermore, the development of community medicine in Canada has been relatively separate from that of the clinical disciplines. To enable clinicians to ...

We describe the death of an elderly lady which resulted from the insertion of the hand and forearm into the rectum. The practice of "fisting" is a form of sexual activity confined primarily to the homosexual community. We report this death to alert forensic pathologists to this unusual practice, which ...

In association with the RACGP, the Department of Community Medicine at Monash University is engaged in a three year research and development project aimed at providing computer assistance for everyday general practice. The system includes a range of options such as drug information, preventive programmes (with patient recall) and patient ...

As business communicators, human resources managers must convey messages to many different people-their subordinates, upper-level management, all employees, or the public. In performing this function, human resources managers, like most managers, frequently find themselves caught in the conflict between language purists and language libertines. Author Ronald Dulek, associate professor and ...

As the scientific foundation of clinical practice has expanded the caring aspect of medicine has been given less emphasis. The development of a paradigm of medicine based on achieving a diagnosis has resulted in neglect of this caring aspect of medicine in education programmes. This has contributed to the current ...

Experience with a workshop designed to teach practical consulting, communication and counselling skills to family medicine vocational trainees is described. Responses to self-report questionnaires immediately (71 percent response rate), and one to two years after the workshop (62 percent rate), are reported. A high percentage of respondents agreed that the ...

A survey was carried out to determine the role of the community pharmacist in self-medication by the public. This included provision of advice on the use of medicines and on general health matters. Medicine sales during one trading day were recorded in 57 pharmacies in the Wellington area. 58.6 percent ...

The concepts of sickness employed in the practice of Western medicine and those held by the Nguni peoples in Africa are shown to be disparate. The approach of the so-called 'traditional healer' incorporates the world-view of the culture within which she works, and her ministrations are consonant with the prevailing ...

Various herniae present at the time of major abdominal surgery were managed by simple occulusion of the peritoneal opening of the sac by interrupted metal clips. Short-term success (the longest follow-up is over 44 months) in 11 of a series of 12 patients (one patient died before follow-up could be ...

A randomized, controlled trial to assess the value of a health centre-based clinical psychology service is described. Outcome is measured by means of (1) psychosocial rating scales; (2) drug costs; and (3) the costs of relevant hospital referrals. At the end of the first year, the six general practitioners had ...

Western medicine has not been functionally incorporated into Andean economic, cultural, and social systems. Evaluation studies show that even though accessibility to Western medicine has increased considerably for rural Andeans, they still rely on traditional medicine. Western medicine has not been able to articulate with Andean ethnomedicine because of different ...

This paper describes the technical assistance role and the functions assumed by the Department of Community Medicine of the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in a planning process that led to the development of a group practice in the Department of Medicine of the Mount Sinai Hospital. Three distinct phases ...

A survey of the 3,048 Active and Affiliate members of the American Academy of Periodontology was conducted by the Task Force on Manpower of the Academy to elicit information concerning practice styles and perceived opportunities for practice. Responses from 1,580 periodontists are presented in tables which include data on general ...

This paper discusses the contribution of engineering to medicine, and the relationships that exist between the two disciplines. Engineers have followed a rational approach to analyse the physician's needs and have begun to bridge the gap between engineering and medicine. As a result, there has been a proliferation of life-saving ...

A barbiturate protocol for control of raised intracranial pressure is presented in detail. Since the nursing staff may be responsible for maintaining cerebral perfusion and normal ICP with barbiturates, mannitol, fluids, and pressor agents, it was thought that a detailed description such as presented might be useful. We have shown ...

This is the first of two papers describing salient aspects of the behavioral science orientation curriculum in the Charleston Family Practice Residency that focus on developing counseling skills. Two short lectures preceding microcounseling training are summarized. One short lecture outlines the myth of medical management and differentiates a "problem oriented" ...

During a three-month period, March-May 1978, 23 black females were accepted as patients in the obesity program at the model office of the Department of Community Health and Family Practice, College of Medicine, Howard University.An aggregate of 55 visits made by these patients was recorded for the same period.The mean ...

The term 'transference' paraphrases the irrational factor in medicine. Physicians feel disturbed by this factor. However, medicine is not only the application of rational data but also dealing with the patient. Transference is a prerequisite of perception and therapy. Analytic therapy aims at converting transference as repetition of behaviour into ...

Sociocultural factors affect both the definition and the sense organs involved in hallucinations. It is suggested that, in addition to the importance of audition in communication on the human level, other sociocultural factors may affect the choice of sense organs in the expression of hallucinatory experience. As compared with non-Western ...

In their daily work the majority of doctors assume that communication with patients is easy and that it needs no special study. This is a false assumption which starts at undergraduate level, where there is no formalized training of the South African medical student in the art of communication. A ...

The demand for human artificial insemination (AI) is increasing as a function of declining numbers of babies available for adoption and greater community awareness. This paper reviews some of the social and legal issues associated with the practice of AI: prevalence of marital infertility; demand for AI; moral objections; effect ...

This study describes an investigation into the information and attitudes which were held by a social worker and general practitioners about the same clients, and records the communication between them about these clients.

The University of Washington Health Sciences Library, Seattle, and its participative management process are described in detail. The evolution of the management system is reviewed by interrelating the various phases of the library's growth, its service complexities, and its communication needs. Staff development results of this participative management mode are ...

Since language is the predominant instrument by which information is transmitted between doctor and patient, an understanding of the uses and functions of language in medicine is crucial to effective medical care. This paper describes a framework for the study of language as a tool in medicine. The work is ...

Community Medicine is a distinct and definable discipline. Through Community Medicine Departments of medical schools and hospitals, patient care, teaching and research programs are conducted in an integrated fashion, concerned with a broad definition of health which is beyond the range of other clinical departments. Because Community Medicine is a ...

At the time that printing came onto the scene in western Europe in the mid-1400s, the medical community was struggling in the depths of superstition, and little rational medicine was being practiced. With this new invention, a flood of ancient, outmoded texts was released upon the public, and eager readers ...

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Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2006.

Thesis (M.S.)--Ohio University, March, 2006.

Rural forest communities in the US Pacific Northwest have seen their economic base disappear with the technological change and reduced timber supply in the forest products industry. Some progress has been made in diversifying local economies, but rural communities are still lagging. Rural communities and workers have a great stake ...

A collection of grand rounds presentations (dating back to 1991) in otorhinlaryngology published on the Web by the Department of Otorhinolaryngology and Communicative Sciences, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas for health professionals. The collection is divided into broad subject areas: Laryngology, Neoplasms of the Head and Neck, Otology/Neurotology, Pediatric ...

The Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) Indicator Database sets out to facilitate communication between people who work with indicators in SFM and create a useful information tool for indicator research and indicator selection processes. It is hosted by the Forestry Faculty of the University of British Columbia. The database can be ...

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The raison d'être for cooperative networks is discussed, and the development of the SUNY Biomedical Communication Network is traced briefly; a description of the system and its products is given. The cooperative cataloging program engaged in with the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine and the National Library of Medicine ...