Matters of interest to medical professionals

Interest Matters

Interest is a powerful motivational process that energizes learning, guides academic and career trajectories, and is essential to academic success. Interest is both a psychological state of attention and affect toward a particular object or topic, and an enduring predisposition to reengage over time. Integrating these two definitions, the four-phase model of interest development guides interven...

Information systems professionals and conflict of interest

Claims and Jurisdictions in Medical Matters Disputes

Medical claims are all disputes that are somehow related to the medical and related matters so its subject is wide-ranging. These are civil, criminal and diciplinair medical cases, and due to the multy natures of such cases, we are likely to see numerous authorities to them. Furthermore, here expert medical expertise and expert opinion play an important role, but the rules are somewhat conflict...

Number of Doctors, Dentists, Pharmacists and Medical Professionals in 1369

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Study to assess the compensation and skills of medical library professionals relative to information technology professionals.

PURPOSE The study seeks to determine how medical library professionals performing information-technology (IT) roles are compensated and how their positions are designed compared to information technology staff in their institutions. METHODS 550 medical library directors in hospital and academic medical libraries were surveyed. The data was then compared to survey data from other compensation ...