Revalidation is the answer

Is there an answer?

Is There an Answer? is intended to serve as a forum in which readers to IUBMB Life may pose questions of the type that intrigue biochemists but for which there may be no obvious answer or one may be available but not widely known or easily accessible. Readers are invited to e-mail [email protected] if they have questions to contribute or if they can provide answers to questions that are provi...

Revalidation of Canadian physicians.

We commend Wendy Levinson for her provocative suggestions regarding revalidation of Canadian physicians. We also applaud CMAJ for publishing views that are more demanding and supportive of meaningful external verification of Canadian physicians’ ongoing competence than those of the Canadian Medical Association. We agree with much of what Levinson has advocated, specifically the call for a reval...

When the ICU is not the answer.

Revalidation for general practitioners: randomised comparison of two revalidation models.

OBJECTIVE To compare two models of revalidation for general practitioners. DESIGN Randomised comparison of two revalidation models. SETTING Primary care in Tayside, Scotland. PARTICIPANTS 66 Tayside general practitioners (principals and non-principals), 53 of whom completed the revalidation folders. Interventions Two revalidation models: a minimum criterion based model with revalidation a...

Multiagent learning is not the answer. It is the question

The article by Shoham, Powers, and Grenager called “If multi-agent learning is the answer, what is the question?” does a great job of laying out the current state of the art and open issues at the intersection of game theory and artificial intelligence (AI). However, from the AI perspective, the term “multiagent learning” applies more broadly than can be usefully framed in game theoretic terms....