BACKGROUND Prolonged working hours and sleep deprivation can exert negative effects on professional performance and health. OBJECTIVES To assess the relationship between sleep deprivation, key metabolic markers, and professional performance in medical residents. METHODS We compared 35 residents working the in-house night shift with 35 senior year medical students in a cross-sectional cohort...

BACKGROUND Reablement is an early and time-limited home-based rehabilitation intervention that emphasizes intensive, goal-oriented, and multidisciplinary assistance for people experiencing functional decline. Few empirical studies to date have examined the experiences of the integrated multidisciplinary teams involved in reablement. Accordingly, the aim of this study was to explore and describe...

The American College of Surgeons declares that, except as provided by law, there are no ethical or collective impediments to full professional association and cooperation between doctors of chiropractic and medical physician’s. Individual choice by a medical physician voluntarily to associate professionally or otherwise cooperate with a doctor of chiropractic should be governed only by legal re...

The basis of all of the ‘international’ codes is a recognition of the diversity of mineral deposits, the types of data available, and the economic factors which are to be applied. They place ultimate responsibility for reports on a competent person or qualified person, whose professional judgment in applying the codes is the principal determinant in the figures which are presented. The reportin...

It has been strongly asserted in both juvenile and adult risk assessment contexts that actuarial assessment has the capacity to predict risk more accurately than clinical assessment; however, this contention is not universally accepted and many have noted that both assessment models have strengths and weaknesses. Despite this ongoing debate, it is generally recognized that the exercise of unaid...

Projective techniques continue to be widely used by school psychologists despite frequent criticisms of their use. This article reviews contemporary validity issues in the use of projective techniques with children and adolescents, including incremental validity, treatment validity, and problems associated with professional judgment and experience. A discussion of these issues and their implica...

This meeting, as all personal contacts, should be carried out in a Rogerian approach of confidence, non-judgment and positive consideration, for the interview is a highly important professional act. It requires knowledge of interpersonal behaviour, and a good dose of sensitivity and diplomacy with respect to the process of questioning. And above all, it requires “presence” which enables one to ...

In the USA I see bumper stickers and t-shirts that declare " Critical thinking: the other national deficit. " Unfortunately here, and elsewhere in the world, these words are often true. Not only does the internet give us ample opportunity to express ourselves without much reflection or thought, but college and university courses do not always expect and foster critical thinking and reflection o...