Opportunities for Physicians in Mission Lands

Indian Medical Mission at Hajj-2016: Mass-Gathering Medicine Perspectives, Challenges, and Opportunities in a Mission Posture

Introduction: Hajj is an annual mass gathering of over 3.5 million pilgrims congregating from 200 countries in the desert climate of Saudi Arabia. Mass gathering medicine at Hajj is challenged by issues of healthcare accessibility, infection control, on-site treatment, referral, evacuation, and response to disasters and public health emergencies. The Indian Medical Mission at H...

Moving Forward: Retirement Opportunities for Senior Physicians.

As national and local medical organizations explore how to assess senior physicians and their competence and skill, it is important for physicians to understand that retirement can be an exciting, interesting, and significant life stage in and of itself. Many opportunities may exist – both within and outside of health care – to allow these physicians who no longer practice, to continue to live ...

The Sentinel-1 Mission: New Opportunities for Ice Sheet Observations

The Sentinel satellite constellation series, developed by the European Space Agency, represents the dedicated space component of the European Copernicus program, committed to long-term operational services in a wide range of application domains. Here, we address the potential of the Sentinel-1 mission for mapping and monitoring the surface velocity of glaciers and ice sheets. We present an ice ...

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Clinical performance feedback and quality improvement opportunities for perioperative physicians

Clinical performance feedback is an important component of the ongoing development and education of health care practitioners. For physicians, feedback about their clinical practice and outcomes is central to developing both confidence and competence at all stages of their medical careers. Cultural and financial infrastructures need to be in place, and the concept of feedback needs to be readil...