Creating Professional Citizens

Physician-citizens--public roles and professional obligations.

Although leaders and other commentators have called for the medical profession's greater engagement in improving systems of care and population health, neither medical education nor the practice environment has fostered such engagement. Missing have been a clear definition of physicians' public roles, reasonable limits to what can be expected, and familiarity with tasks that are compatible with...

Creating pedagogical spaces for developing doctor professional identity.

OBJECTIVES Working with doctors to develop their identities as technically skilled as well as caring, compassionate and ethical practitioners is a challenge in medical education. One way of resolving this derives from a narrative reflective practice approach to working with residents. We examine the use of such an approach. METHODS This paper draws on a 2006 study carried out with four family...

Creating a Culture for Interdisciplinary Collaborative Professional Practice.

The future of the health system is dependent on health professionals re-tooling the way we practice together. No longer can a multi-disciplinary model support the complex health needs of many clients nor can any one-health profession have all the knowledge needed to provide total patient-centred care. However, our current education and health systems are structured around a multidisciplinary mo...

The dark side of professions – the role of professional autonomy in creating 'great professional disasters' *******************

Creatism: A deep-learning photographer capable of creating professional work

Machine-learning excels in many areas with welldefined goals. However, a clear goal is usually not available in art forms, such as photography. The success of a photograph is measured by its aesthetic value, a very subjective concept. This adds to the challenge for a machine learning approach. We introduce Creatism, a deep-learning system for artistic content creation. In our system, we break d...