BACKGROUND In 2014, the American Board of Internal Medicine (ABIM) substantially increased the requirements and fees for its maintenance-of-certification (MOC) program. Faced with mounting criticism, the ABIM suspended certain content requirements in February 2015 but retained the increased fees and number of modules. An objective appraisal of the cost of MOC would help inform upcoming consulta...

The idea that appraisal plays a role in emotion can be traced back to Aristotle, Descartes, Spinoza, and Hume, who considered it self-evident that the states variously called passions, affects, or emotions are differentiated by the type of evaluation or judgment a person makes of the eliciting event. This shared conviction was shattered by James' (1884/1968) claim that "that the bodily changes ...

BACKGROUND Revalidation of the medical profession is under review and a system has been proposed to ensure doctors meet standards of practice and professionalism. The current appraisal system allows clinicians to chart their progress and identify developmental needs in order to improve performance. Appraisal is now an annual compulsory requirement for all doctors. AIM AND OBJECTIVES The aim o...

performance management is an ongoing process of recognizing, measuring, and individual and team performance development and aligning them with the organizational strategic goals (objectives). therefore the employee performance appraisal plays an important part in recognizing the strengths and weaknesses of the employees. on the other hand this task is done by individuals who are likely to make ...

abstract there are varieties of researches for appraisal of results obtained by countries in olympics, using data envelopment analysis method. this research is aimed to make such appraisal for iranians’ results in olympics games using the dea method. before taking any measures, main issues of dea methods for appraisal of olympics games in the previous research were discussed, afterward optimiza...

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Chronic stress, physiological and psychological, has been strongly associated with the onset of psychopathology, highlighting the importance of research investigating the experiences of stress. A current model of the stress process includes stress appraisal, stress reactivity, and performance in stressful situations. Past research has treated performance as a dependent variable in this model, b...

OBJECTIVE Previous work investigating deficits in self-appraisal in behavioural-variant frontotemporal degeneration (bvFTD) has focused on a single domain: social/behavioural processes. We examined whether a domain-specific versus multi-domain model best explains degraded self-appraisal in bvFTD. METHODS 49 patients with bvFTD and 73 patients with Alzheimer's disease (AD) were administered qu...

Coping with pain is a complex phenomenon encompassing a variety of behavioral responses and a large network of underlying neural circuits. Whether pain coping is adaptive or maladaptive depends on the type of pain (e.g., escapable or inescapable), personal factors (e.g., individual experiences with coping strategies in the past), and situational circumstances. Keeping these factors in mind, cos...