The move to become primary contact professionals was perhaps the most significant move in the over hundred year history of the profession. This was a change not taken lightly but one that grew out of a sense that the profession had matured and that it was time to move beyond our close association with the medical profession. At the time this action by Australia caused significant argument in th...

The draft Good Medical Practice code of professional conduct is now available for public comment and consultation ver the past few years, all medical boards in Australia have issued guidance to doctors about expected standards of medical practice. Most of these documents were adapted from Good Medical Practice, a code of conduct first issued by the General Medical Council of the United Kingdom ...

This study questions the validity of the assumption that the workplace culture and experiences of health personnel are largely similar. The study compares nurses, occupational therapists, physiotherapists and speech therapists concerning their perceptions of professional issues within their own profession, and their perceptions of professional issues within the medical profession. Respondents c...

Rogers • Editorial T osteopathic medical profession is in the midst of unprecedented growth. By way of perspective, when the American Osteopathic Association’s editor in chief, Gilbert E. D’Alonzo, Jr, DO, JAOA Associate Editor Michael M. Patterson, PhD, and I were new to the profession, the nation had only a handful of osteopathic medical colleges, and JAOA—The Journal of the American Osteopat...

These observations caused a flurry in the University of Edinburgh, which had previously conferred an honorary degree on Lowe; but it revealed a view apparently widespread in English medical institutions. Although the Medical Act of 1858 had laid the ground for the transformation of the medical profession in Britain, particularly through its impact on medical education, it seemed that there was ...