As with many OECD countries, graduating medical students have been choosing specialist careers at a greater rate than ever before. Generalism in the form of family (general practice) and more generalist specialties trending down resulting distributional geographic challenges. With advent COVID-19 March 2020, schools particular Joint Medical Program situated regional rural area NSW Australia had...

This article attempts to bridge and contribute to three related lines of inquiry: the effect of economic organization on cultural diversity; the origins of career specialism; and the contrast between market and firm as alternative modes of governance. In particular, I use the natural experiment engendered by the transformation of Hollywood from the firmbased studio system to the contemporary ma...

The lifeline for country medicine' was the description by the Rural Doctors Association of Australia of the Queensland Health Rural Generalist Pathway (RGP). The program promises to redress rural medical workforce issues in Queensland. It may fulfil these promises, but only with the support of rural clinical supervisors and medical educators adapting to new expectations of competencies, of trai...

Abstract Aim Understanding how climate conditions influence plant–pollinator interactions at the global scale is crucial to understand pollinator communities and ecosystem function respond environmental change. Here, we investigate whether drives differences in network roles of main insect orders: Diptera, Coleoptera, Lepidoptera Hymenoptera. Location Global. Time period 1968–2020. Major taxa s...

A. M. C. Santos([email protected]) and D. L. J. Quicke, Dept of Biology, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, Berkshire, SL5 7PY, UK. DLJQ also at: Dept of Entomology, Natural History Museum, Cromwell Road, London, SW7 5BD, UK. – P. A. V. Borges and AMCS, Dep. de Ci ê ncias Agr á rias – CITA-A (Azorean Biodiversity Group), Univ. dos A ç ores, Rua Capit ã o Jo...

In an important and provocative editorial, Dr Roger Ladouceur, my colleague at Canadian Family Physician, lamented the decline of generalism among family physicians, including many recent graduates.1 In response to this editorial, Thomas Freeman and Stephen Wetmore challenged our discipline and our national College2 to confront this emerging identity crisis in family medicine.3 In the great tra...

The landscape of medical practice and health care has been transformed by specialization over the past Century. There has been an extraordinary acceleration in the proliferation of specialty practice, coincident with rapid growth in technological devices and their clinical applications during the past fifty years. Medicine and medical care are evolving rapidly, a process that has similarities t...

Abstract Roost locations can be an important contributor to vulture conflicts with humans, but factors influencing roost-site selection at a landscape level remain largely unexplored. Further, there has been little research comparing how these vary between nocturnal and diurnal roosting sites. We used remote cameras document daily variation in use of 21 roosts (20 communication/water towers 1 n...