Specialties, Medical - Organization & administration
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Sunday, November 22, 2009

The worsening of ED on-call coverage in California: 6-year trend.

30 Aug 2009 To reassess problems with on-call physician coverage in California, we repeated our anonymous 2000 survey of the California chapter of the American College of Emergency Physicians. Physicians responded from 77.4% of California emergency departments ... Read more...

In-theatre training of anaesthetists in a teaching hospital: has it changed over 10 years?

19 Aug 2009 BACKGROUND: We wished to ascertain in what way recent changes such as Modernising Medical Careers (MMC) and the implementation of the Working Time Directive (WTD) have affected clinical training and experience for anaesthetists in a teaching centre, ... Read more...

[Anaesthesia training program in Australia]

30 Jul 2009 We reviewed anaesthesia training program in Australia. Anaesthetists in Australia and New Zealand need to obtain the Diploma of Fellowship of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists (FANZCA) to be recognised as specialists. The ... Read more...

Latest indexed articles for 'Specialties, Medical - Organization & administration'

These are the very latest articles for this heading:

• A practice template for low-vision rehabilitation. 29 Sep 2009
• The worsening of ED on-call coverage in California: 6-year trend. 30 Aug 2009
• In-theatre training of anaesthetists in a teaching hospital: has it changed over 10 years? 19 Aug 2009
• [Anaesthesia training program in Australia] 30 Jul 2009
• Medicaid managed care and health care access for adult beneficiaries with disabilities. 20 Jun 2009
• [Training the ideal doctor] 6 Apr 2009
• [Development of an evidence-based managerial decision aid to assist in the provision of secondary medical services in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)] 30 Mar 2009
• Lack of coordination between health policy and medical education: a contributing factor to the resignation of specialist trainees in Fiji? 11 Mar 2009
• The independent physician--going, going.... 10 Feb 2009
• The Governor's Task Force on Health Care Access and Reimbursement: a final report. 30 Dec 2008
• Evaluation of a diabetes specialist-guided primary care diabetes treatment program. 30 Dec 2008
• Patient experiences with coordination of care: the benefit of continuity and primary care physician as referral source. 17 Dec 2008
• Grass roots growing into travel medicine. 15 Dec 2008
• 'Woundology'--an emerging clinical specialty. 29 Nov 2008
• [System of medical specialties in Japan - simplifying complexities - ] 29 Nov 2008
• Optimizing patient flow in a large hospital surgical centre by means of discrete-event computer simulation models. 29 Nov 2008
• A modest proposition to align geriatrics and long term care medicine. 16 Nov 2008
• Interventions to improve outpatient referrals from primary care to secondary care. 6 Oct 2008
• Advanced subspecialization in medical subspecialty practice in India: are we ready for it? 29 Sep 2008
• [Current perspectives on health care for the older adult] 29 Sep 2008

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Technical information about 'Specialties, Medical'

Definition: Various branches of medical practice limited to specialized areas.

Descriptor UI: D013040

Alternative terms: Specialties, Medical; Medical Specialty; Specialities, Medical; Medical Specialties; Specialty, Medical; Medical Specialities; Medical Speciality; Speciality, Medical;

Allowable Qualifiers: classification; economics; education; history; instrumentation; legislation & jurisprudence; manpower; methods; organization & administration; standards; trends; statistics & numerical data; ethics;

Tree Number: H02.403.776;

History Note: 68

Technical Notes: SPEC: SPEC qualif; coord IM with field or subject (IM); with biog: Manual 32.16.9, 34.4; policy: Manual 28.5, 28.7; DF: SPECIALTIES MED