Physician's Role
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Saturday, November 21, 2009

Perspective: A perfect storm: the convergence of bullet points, competencies, and screen reading in medical education.

30 Oct 2009 Three distinct phenomena are currently at play in medical education: (1) the pervasive use of PowerPoint in teaching, (2) the wholesale application of competency models, and (3) the shift from paper reading to screen reading regardless of course, ... Read more...

Commentary: The relationship status of digital media and professionalism: it's complicated.

30 Oct 2009 The rising popularity of digital applications, such as social networking, media share sites, and blogging, has significantly affected how medical trainees interact with educators, colleagues, and the public. Despite the increased popularity and use ... Read more...

Management of injecting drug users admitted to hospital.

8 Oct 2009 General hospital clinicians frequently deal with injecting drug users because substance use has diverse medical and psychiatric complications. Non-specialist clinicians often initiate management when specialist consultation is not available or ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Physician's Role'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• Perspective: A perfect storm: the convergence of bullet points, competencies, and screen reading in medical education. 30 Oct 2009
• Commentary: The relationship status of digital media and professionalism: it's complicated. 30 Oct 2009
• Artist's statement: heart. 30 Oct 2009
• Emergency traumatologists in trauma care. 30 Oct 2009
• Doctors, admit your mistakes. 30 Oct 2009
• A piece of my mind. A gift of time. 26 Oct 2009
• Medical oncologists' experience in attending a funeral and communicating condolences. 24 Oct 2009
• The suffering of physicians. 22 Oct 2009
• [Help, I'm still family practitioner!] 20 Oct 2009
• Management of injecting drug users admitted to hospital. 8 Oct 2009
• Why New Zealand must rapidly halve its greenhouse gas emissions. 7 Oct 2009
• Violation of human rights by doctors today. Oct 2009
• Hospital strategies to engage physicians in quality improvement. 29 Sep 2009
• A special needs child. 29 Sep 2009
• [Physicians as key communicators of the influenza vaccination for the elderly, patients with chronic conditions, and health care workers. Results of a nationwide survey in the context of the national influenza vaccination campaign] 29 Sep 2009
• Appropriateness of collaborations between industry and the medical profession: physicians' perceptions. 29 Sep 2009
• John Stone, MD. 29 Sep 2009
• Surgeon-performed ultrasound: a single institution experience in parathyroid localization. 29 Sep 2009
• Primary care--lifelines and shortages. 29 Sep 2009
• Postnatal diagnosis of Down syndrome: synthesis of the evidence on how best to deliver the news. 26 Sep 2009

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Technical information about 'Physician's Role'

Definition: The expected function of a member of the medical profession.

Descriptor UI: D010819

Alternative terms: Physician's Role; Physician Role; Physician's Roles; Physicians Role; Role, Physician's; Roles, Physician's; Physicians' Role; Physicians' Roles; Role, Physicians'; Roles, Physicians';

Allowable Qualifiers: history; psychology;

Tree Number: F01.829.316.616.625.600;

History Note: 91(78); was see under ROLE 1978-90

Technical Notes: coord IM with area in which role is played (IM), as "physician's role in reducing teenage pregnancy"= PHYSICIAN'S ROLE (IM) + PREGNANCY IN ADOLESCENCE (IM)