You Thought That This Would Be Easy? Seeking an Understanding of Episodic Volunteering

‘How would you call this in English?’

INTRODUCTION Medical education researchers increasingly collaborate in international teams, collecting data in different languages and from different parts of the world, and then disseminating them in English-language journals. Although this requires an ever-present need to translate, it often occurs uncritically. With this paper we aim to enhance researchers' awareness and reflexivity regardin...

Would you please stop that!?

Purpose – Meetings are ubiquitous in organizational life and are a great source of frustration and annoyance to many employees in the workplace, in part due to counterproductive meeting behaviors (CMBs). CMBs include engaging in irrelevant discussion, complaining about other attendees, arriving to the meeting late, and other similar, disruptive behaviors. Consistent with conservation of resourc...

Who would you like to be when you grow up?

In February 2005, the Annals of Internal Medicine, a highly respected journal, published a systematic review of 59 manuscripts covering a total of 62 samples that reported on the relationship between medical knowledge/healthcare quality and years in practice/physician age. The implication of the data presented is that throughout their careers, physicians fail to upgrade their knowledge to keep ...

What Would You like to Be When You Grow Up?

Would You Like Fries With That?

Continued  Fast food restaurateurs, hotel operators and other franchise owners from around the country arrived in Washington on Tuesday, September 16, but they were not there to order fries. They were there to voice their opposition to a July 29 decision made by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the Board). In July, the general counsel of the NLRB made a preliminary decision that cou...