BACKGROUND Clinical experience has traditionally been highly valued in medical education and clinical healthcare. On account of its multi-faceted nature, clinical experience is mostly difficult to articulate, and is mainly expressed in clinical situations as professional approaches. Due to retirement, hospitals in Scandinavia will soon face a substantial decrease in the number of senior special...

This article reports the results of an exploratory study on corporate philanthropy using a sample of 206 Canadian companies. The results show that a corporation is more likely to have a professional donation program if it is large, privately owned, and the manager of the corporation acts as a volunteer fundraiser for a charitable organization. The second part of the study finds that the level o...

Personal professional networks, or the set of peers an individual socializes with outside of organizational boundaries, are gaining more and more attention in a business environment that is increasingly volatile. Besides blurring the lines between personal and professional lives, personal professional networks require grooming—time often taken away from work. This paper is set out to study the ...

BACKGROUND Hamstring injuries are the second most common injury causing missed days in professional baseball field players. Recent studies have shown the preventive benefit of eccentric conditioning on the hamstring muscle group in injury prevention. Specifically, Nordic-type exercises have been shown to decrease the incidence of acute hamstring injuries in professional athletes. PURPOSE This...

IntroductIon For many decades, organization scientists have paid considerable attention to the link between knowledge and organization structure. An early contributor to these discussions was Max Weber (1922), who elaborated his concepts of professional bureaucracy. History shows a multitude of other descriptions and propositions which depict knowledge-friendly organization structures such as t...

PROBLEM CONSIDERED Most family physicians in Wisconsin are employed by large health care organizations. Because of its impact on physician recruitment, retention, commitment to the organization, and patient care, the quality of physician work life is an important problem. METHODS A survey was designed based on a literature review and augmented by focus group data. It was sent to all 1482 memb...

In the daily exercise of their functions, health professionals face a duality of systems, that is, the professional system and the organizational system, each of which has its own distinct values, principles and expectations. The authors aim to present organizational and professional commitment concepts and their relations in the context of the health sector. They consider that organizational a...

This article has been originated in a research that aimed to identify and validate the relevance of the indicators present in an instrument of evaluation of Primary Health Care. Sixty experts evaluated 23 indicators of the dimensions ‘user as the center of the process’, ‘organization of processes focused on users’, ‘link, competencies, skills and professional attitudes’ and ‘organizational ambi...