WRITING CENTERS IN RUSSIAN UNIVERSITIES: GOALS, OBJECTIVES AND IMPEDIMENTS

Competency Based Goals and Objectives

Objectives  Demonstrate basic knowledge in the anatomy, physiology, and embryology of organ system as it pertains to surgical diseases.  Demonstrate basic knowledge in the pathology and diagnosis of surgical diseases and understand the fundamentals of evaluating surgical risks in both elective and emergency settings.  Discuss the basic principles of preoperative and postoperative management,...

[Goals and objectives in medical education].

Impediments to writing do-not-resuscitate orders.

BACKGROUND Physicians are frequently unaware of their patients' desires regarding end-of-life care. Consequently, opportunities to implement do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders are often missed. OBJECTIVE To determine the reasons attending physicians do not write DNR orders when patients face increased mortality. METHODS Over 4 months, the medical records of all inpatients on the General Medici...

The Goals Grid: A Tool for Clarifying Goals and Objectives

Several years back, a meeting of the Operations Executive Council in my company was focused on the five-year corporate planning effort then getting underway. At this meeting I distributed a simple framework for classifying, organizing, and analyzing goals and objectives (see the Goals Grid in Figure 1 below). My colleagues saw this framework as very useful and so I was led to present it to a wi...

Continuing medical education (CME): goals and objectives.