Accreditation: Protecting the Professional or the Consumer?

Protecting the public through professional standards.

Measuring psychosocial outcomes: is the consumer or the professional the best judge?

In this review, we explore professionally-driven and consumer-driven paradigms in measuring psychosocial outcomes for cancer care. Early measures of psychosocial well-being focussed on clinically-derived concepts of dysfunction. Recent literature reflects a paradigm shift toward a consumer-driven approach to the conceptualisation and measurement of psychosocial well-being. The key distinction b...

Professional Accreditation toward Outcome-driven Curricula

1 Andrew Nafalski, University of South Australia, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Mawson Lakes 5095, South Australia, [email protected] 2 Kevin McDermott, as above, [email protected] 3 Özdemir Göl, as above, [email protected] Abstract  In Australia, all professional engineering programs are subject to accreditation by the Institution of Engineers, Austra...

Professional Accreditation of Information Systems Programs

Although accreditation is over 100 years old, the accreditation of information systems programs is a new experience for information systems professionals. This paper describes the important aspects of accreditation as a process of excellence and shows how information systems faculty members can now employ that process to improve the overall quality of their programs for the benefit of their stu...

Chaperones: protecting the patient or protecting the doctor?

The routine use of chaperones during medical examinations, including intimate examinations, is variable. Practice varies between countries and also within them. Use of a chaperone may protect patients from sexual abuse by medical or nursing practitioners. An appropriate chaperone may also protect healthcare practitioners from false accusations. This article considers issues surrounding the use ...