Put it in Writing

Writing it down: an introduction.

In Australia, we are fortunate that the Department of Health and Ageing has implemented the Rural Health Strategy which has provided funding to Universities for the establishment of Rural Clinical Schools. This strategy was designed to encourage medical students to take up a career in rural practice by enabling them to undertake extended clinical training placements in rural locations. When the...

Put this in your pipe and smoke it.

Defining osteopathic medicine: can you put your finger on it?

Rogers • Editorial A of us have been in situations like this: You may have trained in a major medical center, you may work there now, or you may be attending a large educational symposium. You look around and you observe, “I am as good as anybody else here, but there is something different.” The problem is, can you put your finger on it? As members of a “hands-on” profession, we osteopathic phy...

Diathermy smoke plume: why do we put up with it?

Diathermy is used in most theatres for every case but how many people think about the contents of diathermy plume or surgical smoke? Surgical smoke is an unpleasant smell that leaves many considering whether surgical masks reduce the risk of inhaling its contents. This article suggests that practitioners should be more aware of its contents and take action to lessen the risk to themselves and t...

Here Is the Knowledge-Where Should I Put It?

In order to design useful knowledge media spaces to knowledge workers it is essential that we understand the nature of the work conducted and the knowledge applied in real settings. This paper reports from a study of how a group of quality assurance specialists gather, structure and distribute information and knowledge. Based on the findings a number of overall requirements for knowledge media ...