BACKGROUND Standardised patients are used in medical education to expose students to clinical contexts and facilitate transition to clinical practice, and this approach is gaining momentum in physiotherapy programs. Expense and availability of trained standardised patients are factors limiting widespread adoption, and accessing clinical visits with real patients can be challenging. This study a...

Dr Ian Wakeman is a senior lecturer in the Department of Informatics at the University of Sussex and formerly a research fellow at UCL. His current research interests are focused on support for user policies within pervasive environments, and how to make trust relationships explicit in the technological foundations of pervasive computing systems. His previous work has been in the area of progra...

The 2-hour long United Kingdom Clinical Aptitude Test (UKCAT) is used by many universities in the United Kingdom as part of their selection process for undergraduate medical and dentistry degrees. We aimed to compare the performance of senior doctors in primary and secondary care and across a range of specialties, in a modified version of the medical school entrance examination-the mUKCAT. Lay ...

In 2008, women comprised 46.5 percent of the U.S. labor force, and occupied nearly 51 percent of all managerial and professional jobs, yet women holding the titles of chairman, chief executive officer (CEO), chief operating officer (COO), and executive vice-president (EVP) remained at about seven percent of the population of U.S. executives, according to the non-profit research group, Catalyst....

Dr. Nada Korac-Kakabadse Senior Research Fellow Cranfield School of Management Cranfield, Bedford, NK43 OAL, UK [email protected] Alexander Kouzmin Foundation Chair in Management Graduate School of Management University of Western Sydney, Australia [email protected] Andrew Korac-Kakabadse Professor of International Management Development Cranfield School of Management Cranfie...

OBJECTIVES To categorize senior health professionals' experience with poor medical practice in hospitals and in general practice, to describe perceptions which senior NHS staff have of good medical practice, and to describe how problems of poor medical practice are currently managed. DESIGN A postal questionnaire survey. The questionnaire sought perceptions of good medical practice, asked par...

Value at Risk (VaR) is a central concept in risk management. As stressed by Artzner et al. (1999), VaR may not possess the subadditivity property required to be a coherent measure of risk. The key idea of this paper is that, when tail thickness is responsible for violation of subadditivity, eliciting proper conditioning information may restore VaR rationale for decentralized risk management. Th...

In 2008 Gartner Group listed "Cloud-Computing (CC)" in its Hype-Cycle (Gartner, 2008). Since these days, enterprises in different industries discuss the utilization of cloud-computing for their own benefit. The banking industry traditionally is heavily dependent on information technology. Therefore, it can be assumed that cloudcomputing could be of particular interesting for banks. This paper i...

A COMPARISON OF CRITICAL THINKING ABILITY AND CLINICAL JUDGEMENT SKILLS IN ASSOCIATE AND BACCALAUREATE SENIOR NURSING STUDENTS By Debra L. Sietsema The purpose of this descriptive, correlational study was to compare the critical thinking and clinical judgement skills of senior nursing students at two educational levels. A convenience sample of 34 students in the Midwest was obtained during the ...