Reflections of a Cardiac Surgeon Turned Global Health Educator

Assessment of public health educator practice: health educator responsibilities.

This study presents a method for better understanding how practicing health educators in local health departments spend their time. The purpose of this study was to document the daily practice of health educators in the 10 areas of responsibility as defined by a competency-based framework for graduate-level health educators. The results of the current study present the average percentage of tim...

Reflections from the Global Health Front: Introduction

Health is a collective experience. Disease and physical maladies afflict humans across all geographical, cultural, or temporal contexts. Medicine, on the other hand, has never represented a shared set of values. Sick and suffering individuals understand their own bodies in culturally specific ways, relying on their local traditions and beliefs when they seek medical assistance. Today, nearly al...

In the name of life. Reflections of a Soviet surgeon

Reflections on the mentoring of a young surgeon.

© 2006 AMC Média Inc. I a 2004 decision, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Manitoba found no evidence of professional misconduct by any physician involved in the 12 deaths investigated by Associate Chief Judge Murray Sinclair’s inquiry into the Pediatric Cardiac Surgery Program at Winnipeg Children’s Hospital. The College’s decision reiterated Sinclair’s findings, namely, that the error...

The Health Educator in a Rural Community *

The rural California county of San Luis Obispo, serving 45,000 population, lacked money, as do most rural counties, for the employment of a health educator. However, early in 1945 the need was considered so urgent that the local Tuberculosis Association decided to include health education experience as a job requisite for its first fulltime executive secretary. Since November, 1945, a trained h...