Profession needs to open itself up

Our Profession Needs a Reminder

Your profession needs you (lessons in medical leadership).

After finishing residency, you are fortunate to find an excellent job as an attending emergency physician in a busy community teaching hospital. The physician group is well established, with an equitable shift distribution and a practice plan to support the residents’ teaching program. The emergency department (ED) sees high volumes, so there are always challenging, acutely ill patients to trea...

The Libyan medical profession needs a regulatory body

To the Editor: I am very grateful to Dr Elkhammas for his editorial that brought the issue of medical ethics in Libya to light [1]. I have been following the correspondence with interest and I feel it adds a great value to a debate of such an important issue [2, 3, 4]. It is very obvious to everybody who knows about the medical culture in Libya that there are major problems with ethical issues ...

Opening Up to Open Source

Educating Dental Hygienists to Meet Future Health Care Needs and Roles of the Profession.

1031 Across the United States, the role of the dental hygienist is evolving. As a result, the dental hygiene curriculum must expand from a traditional private practice focus to include other career pathways, such as providing direct access oral health care in alternative settings, practicing in interprofessional health care environments, being an educator, engaging in research, participating in...