Attitudes of US physician assistants toward persons with HIV/AIDS

Public attitudes toward persons with mental illness.

New Role, New Country: introducing US physician assistants to Scotland

This paper draws from research commissioned by the Scottish Executive Health Department (SEHD). It provides a case study in the introduction of a new health care worker role into an already well established and "mature" workforce configuration It assesses the role of US style physician assistants (PAs), as a precursor to planned "piloting" of the PA role within the National Health Service (NHS)...

Attitudes of medical clerks toward persons with intellectual disabilities.

OBJECTIVE To assess the attitudes of upper-year undergraduate medical students (ie, clerks) toward the philosophy of community inclusion of persons with intellectual disabilities (ID) according to demographic, personal contact, and training variables. DESIGN Cross-sectional self-administered survey. SETTING Clerkship rotations at Queen's University in Kingston, Ont, and the University of To...

Attitudes of senior psychiatry residents toward persons with intellectual disabilities.

OBJECTIVES This study examined the attitudes of senior residents in psychiatry toward persons with intellectual disabilities. Examining residents' attitudes will highlight areas of training that could be enhanced to better prepare psychiatrists to work with individuals with intellectual disabilities. METHOD A questionnaire was distributed to senior psychiatry residents at a Canada-wide prepar...

Attitudes toward physician-nurse collaboration in anesthesia.

The purpose of this study was to compare the attitudes of anesthesiologists and nurse anesthetists toward collaboration with each other. Data for this descriptive, comparative study were gathered through a mailed survey to 501 nurse anesthetists and 353 anesthesiologists licensed to practice in 7 state of the United States. Attitude toward collaboration was measured using an adaptation of the J...