Recognized focused practice: Does sub-specialty designation offer value to the neurosurgeon?

Recognized focused practice: Does sub-specialty designation offer value to the neurosurgeon?

Vehicles for life-long assessment such as Maintenance of Certification tend to focus on generalist neurosurgical knowledge. However, as neurosurgeons advance in their careers, they tend to narrow their practice and increase volumes in certain specific types of operations. Failing to test the type of procedures most relevant to the practitioner is a lost opportunity to improve the knowledge and ...

Opportune timing for palliative care specialty designation.

What does Software Engineering Practice offer to Semantic Web Service Composition?

Bruce Spencer and Sandy Liu are the leader and a researcher in the Internet Logic group, which specializes in reasoning systems for Internet applications. The group’s activities on the Semantic Web include (i) a Semantic Web Lab with close ties to RuleML.org, (ii) a graduate course at the University of New Brunswick on the Semantic Web Techniques, (iii) BASeWEB (Business Agents and the Semantic...

Multi-society Presidents' page: The value of membership in your sub-specialty society.

Job Burnout and Mental Health of Non-medical Staff of General, Specialty and Sub-specialty Hospitals Affiliated to the Iranian Oil Industry

Introduction: Job burnout is a kind of psychological exhaustion that is associated with psychological stress or job and workplace stress and can affect the general health of the individual.  Job burnout is more likely to occur in jobs offering health and social services. Considering the special problems of hospital staff due to high work sensitivity, this study was conducted to identify the rel...