Interview: Paul Williams: MP and GP

Interview with Walter C . Willett Conducted by Benjamin C . Williams

Walter C. Willett MD, DrPH, is Fredrick John Stare Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition and Chairman of the Department of Nutrition at Harvard School of Public Health as well as a Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School. He studied food science as an undergraduate at Michigan State University, obtained a medical degree from the University of Michigan Medical School and a Doctorate in...

Early career researchers: an interview with Caroline Williams.

Caroline Williams is an Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, where she studies evolution of metabolic physiology in ectotherms. She grew up in New Zealand, where she received Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Zoology from the University of Otago in Dunedin. After travelling and working in Asia, she moved to Western University, Canada, for her PhD in the laborator...

An interview with our journal's founder, Professor Mel Williams.

Dutch postgraduate GP selection procedure; reliability of interview assessments

BACKGROUND Semi- structured interviews are the core of the Dutch selection procedure for postgraduate general practice (GP) training. A staff member, trainer and trainee independently assess personal qualities. Aiming to improve the selection procedure we were interested in the reliability aspects of these interviews. We investigated the inter-rater reliability of the interview for groups of tw...

Dying at home in Belgium: a descriptive GP interview study

BACKGROUND While increasing attention is being paid to enabling terminal patients to remain at home until death, limited information is available on the circumstances in which people at home actually die. Therefore this study aims to describe patient characteristics, functional and cognitive status and physical and psychological symptom burden in the last three months of life among Belgian pati...