Disciplined Exceptions

The characteristics of physicians disciplined by professional colleges in Canada

BACKGROUND The identification of health care professionals who are incompetent, impaired, uncaring or have criminal intent has received increasing attention in recent years. These individuals are often subject to disciplinary action by professional licensing authorities. To date, no national data exist for Canadian physicians disciplined for professional misconduct. We sought to describe the ch...

Teaching Disciplined Software Development_author_version_prefinal

Discipline is an essential prerequisite for the development of large and complex software-intensive systems. However, discipline is also important on the level of individual development activities. A major challenge for teaching disciplined software development is to enable students to experience the benefits of discipline and to overcome the gap between real professional scenarios and scenario...

Disciplined Agile Delivery: An introduction

A Method for Requirements Capture and Specification Based on Disciplined Use Cases and Screen Mockups

We present a novel method for capturing and writing requirements specifications that enriches disciplined use cases with screen mockups. Disciplined use cases are characterized by a quite stringent template, which allows to impose a large number of constraints helping to prevent common mistakes and to increase the quality of the specifications. Disciplined use cases are expressed using natural ...

Physicians disciplined for sex-related offenses.

CONTEXT Physicians who abuse their patients sexually cause immense harm, and, therefore, the discipline of physicians who commit any sex-related offenses is an important public health issue that should be examined. OBJECTIVES To determine the frequency and severity of discipline against physicians who commit sex-related offenses and to describe the characteristics of these physicians. DESIG...