Bridging the professions

The Psychiatric Professions

The Regulation of Medical Professions

This chapter reviews two areas of the medical regulation literature; the licensing of medical professionals and medical malpractice. The licensing literature draws upon a more general literature which explains the existence of regulation as reflecting the interests of either (1) the regulated profession, (2) the public, or (3) a combination of both the public and the profession. The major contr...

Professions Program

Signature pedagogies in the professions

Dædalus Summer 2005 The psychoanalyst Erik Erikson once observed that if you wish to understand a culture, study its nurseries. There is a similar principle for the understanding of professions: if you wish to understand why professions develop as they do, study their nurseries, in this case, their forms of professional preparation. When you do, you will generally detect the characteristic form...

Social Mobility and the Professions

This report sets out to illustrate the origin of family incomes and abilities of those entering into the Professions across time. It is for submission to the Panel for Fair Access to the Professions.