Encouraging reflection: good doctor or bad doctor?

Doctor of Nursing Practice (initiated or disorder)

After years of trying to make independent PhD course, Nursing could create two independent course including research-focused course (PhD) and clinical practice -focused (DNP). PhD focused more on research and DNP emphasis more on clinical activities and innovative clinical application of evidence-based research results. Presence or absence of DNP is still a debate as a challenge in nursing. In ...

Competition in Healthcare: Good, Bad or Ugly?

The role of competition in healthcare is much debated. Despite a wealth of international experience in relation to competition, evidence is mixed and contested and the debate about the potential role for competition is often polarised. This paper considers briefly some of the reasons for this, focusing on what is meant by “competition in healthcare” and why it is more valuable to think about th...

MISTER or DOCTOR.

To the Editors of THE BRITISH JOURNAL OF OPHTHALMOLOGY. DEAR SIRS,-Although strictly speaking the title of Doctor should be confined to those who are " Doctors," i.e. those who hold the degree of Doctor of a University, yet since this title is now so universally applied to any duly qualified medical practitioner I agree with the writer of the annotation on the above subject that it is questiona...

The good doctor: what patients want.

The way of making a good doctor.

Received: November 4, 2010 • Revised: November 8, 2010 • Accepted: November 10, 2010 Corresponding Author: Sang-Ho Baik Gachon University of Medicine and Science Medical School, 534-2 Yeonsu 3-dong, Yeonsu-gu, Incheon 406-799, Korea Tel: +82.32.820.4702 email: [email protected] Korean J Med Educ 2010 Dec;22(4): 249-256. doi: 10.3946/kjme.2010.22.4.249. pISSN: 2005-727X eISSN: 2005-7288 C The Kor...