Developmental paediatrics in primary care: what should we teach?

Developmental paediatrics in primary care: what should we teach?

There is little agreement about what constitutes good developmental paediatric practice at the level of primary care. Many of the available screening tests are intrinsically unsatisfactory or badly performed, but screening is only a small part of developmental paediatrics. Every primary care doctor should be familiar with the scientific basis of the subject even if a decision is made not to emb...

What Should we Teach About Petri Nets?

I challenge the traditional choice of topics and the usual style of presentation for introductory courses on Petri nets. For such a course I suggest a number of aspects that usually are not considered fundamental. This includes faithful models, a slight revision of formalisms and terminology, specific techniques to increase the expressive power of Petri net models, aspects derived from distribu...

What residents know about health care reform and what we should teach them.

PURPOSE We surveyed residents and fellows at the University of Louisville School of Medicine (N  =  600) to (1) explore their perceptions and knowledge of issues related to health care business and health care reforms, and (2) seek their input on what instructional content concerning health care business and health care reform they would like to receive and what instruction venue they would pre...

Paediatrics in primary care.

I ncreasingly the future organisation of paediatrics at secondary level, the place of first referral, depends greatly on the organisation and quality of care at primary level. The ability of paediatricians to influence primary child health care is limited at present to advocacy and training, but recently some have been expressing the view that we in the UK should follow US and European practice...

Erythema nodosum :what should we consider about it?