Genetic testing and professional responsibility: the italian experience

Ethical approach and professional responsibility in workplace drug testing: An update on the eff ectiveness of the Italian current legislation

The workplace drug testing (WDT) in USA is an established practice, carried out according to national guidelines for different purpose (as pre-employment screening, testing for cause, for scheduled categories of employers or random testing, etc.) [1-4] using either urine/blood or alternative matrices (oral fluid, hair, sweat, breath air) [5,6]. On the contrary, in Europe, the WDT is regulated b...

Online Tutoring Roles: Italian Teachers’ Professional Development Experience

The chapter presents a case study of a training course involving Italian early-secondary school teachers, which focuses on online tutors’ activities and roles. After a brief literature review, it relates the topic to the national e-learning training context, clarifying the tutors’ expected tasks within the evaluated teachers’ professional training experience. The aim is to analyze the roles pla...

Duty hours and professional responsibility.

Cet article se trouve aussi en français à la page 803. Dear Colleagues, By the time you read these lines, a new cohort of medical graduates will have begun their residencies in family medicine and other specialties. Your College is one of the organizations represented on a steering committee addressing resident duty hours, hosted by the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada, with f...

Error, blame, and professional responsibility.

It has become common knowledge that health care takes place in complex settings that are fraught with the potential for error. More than this, it is becoming a commonplace understanding that error will occur in hospitals, and that some of those errors will inflict harm on patients and their families. The Institute of Medicine report To Err Is Human, describes error as involving multiple aspects...

Professional Responsibility When Lawyering