What does a professionalism assessment scale measure?

What does a professionalism assessment scale measure?

Klemenc-Ketis and Vrecko described the development and validation of a professionalism assessment scale for medical students in a recent issue of this journal.1 In the introduction to this article they state that ‘professionalism can be defined as a collection of attitudes, values, behaviours and relationships that act as the foundation of the health professional’s contract with society’. Subse...

What does professionalism mean to the physician?

Professionalism, which is a core competency for physicians, can be described as a spectrum of behaviors and may have a significant impact on the problems in today's changing health care climate. In this article, we discuss the meaning of professionalism and its role in the Southern California Permanente Medical Group (SCPMG) and consider how it may be applied to integrated care delivery systems...

What does % V actually measure ?

The system of classifying languages by their rhythmic patterning traditionally and historically characterizes the patterns in terms of three groups. One group includes the so-called “stress-timed” languages like English, German, and Dutch, which are perceived as having equal intervals between stresses, and are described as sounding rhythmically like Morse code (James 1940). A second rhythmic cl...

What does cerebral oximetry measure?

What Does It Mean to "Measure Performance"?

The purpose of much computer science research is to invent algorithms, and generate evidence to convince others that the new methods are worthwhile. All too often, however, the work has no impact, because the supporting evidence does not meet basic standards of rigor or persuasiveness. Here the notion of “experiment” is explored, with reference to our current investigation into distributed text...