SPECIALTIES AND SPECIALISTS.

Stress in dental specialists: a comparison of six clinical dental specialties.

OBJECTIVE To describe and compare the levels of stress reported by dental practitioners working within clinical dental specialties. METHOD Questionnaire survey of 220 dental practitioners identified from the General Dental Council lists of specialist practitioners in the following clinical specialties: orthodontics, paediatric dentistry, restorative dentistry, endodontics, periodontology, pro...

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Bedside Teaching: Specialists vs. Non- specialists

Word Count: 249 (including titles) Main Text Word count: 1422 (including titles) Number of tables: 2 Deemed exempt from full review by University Research Ethics Committee (UREC) (University of Dundee, UREC Reference number: 11077) This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: ‘Bedside Teaching: Specialists versus Non-specialists’, Clinical Teacher 13:2 (2016), which has been publ...

Physician career satisfaction across specialties.

BACKGROUND The career satisfaction and dissatisfaction physicians experience likely influence the quality of medical care. OBJECTIVE To compare career satisfaction across specialties among US physicians. METHODS We analyzed data from the Community Tracking Study of 12 474 physicians (response rate, 65%) for the late 1990s. Data are cross-sectional. Two satisfaction variables were created: v...

Pneumococcal Vaccination in Different Specialties.

P disease can be dangerous, and sometimes fatal, in people above the age of 50 years and with certain chronic medical condit ions . This may be true even when the chronic medical condition is well controlled with medication and/or lifestyle m a n a g e m e n t . P n e u m o c o c c a l vaccination needs to be used more consistently to reduce the risk of pneumococcal infection in these indiv idu...