OBJECTIVE This study examines various options that a faculty member might exercise to achieve work-family balance in academic medicine and their consequences for academic advancement. METHOD Three data sets were analyzed: an anonymous web-administered survey of part-time tenure track-eligible University of Illinois College of Medicine (UI-COM) faculty members conducted in 2003; exogenous data...

The cardiovascular risks associated with night shift work in medical staff have been suspected for several years. Kawachi et al. analysed coronary heart disease (CHD) incidence in 79 109 women from the Nurses Health Study, and observed raised rates among night shift workers, particularly those who had worked for 6 years on rotating shifts (51% increased risk). Effects remained significant after...

EMERGENCE OF a healthoriented paradigm of human behavior is particularly felicitous for the social work profession. In its implicit emphasis on growth-enhancing possibilities for human beings, a healthoriented model strikes an affinity with the value base of the profession and stimulates reaffirmation of principles of practice that have always been present. Recent works by Germain and Gitterman...

INTRODUCTION Recent research efforts in emergency medical services (EMS) has identified variability in the ability of EMS personnel to recognize their level of stress-related impairment. Developing a better understanding of how workplace stress may affect EMS personnel is a key step in the process of increasing awareness of the impact of work-related stress and stress-related impairment. OBJE...

Developing and implementing patient care protocols within a specific organizational setting requires knowledge of the protocol, the organization, and the way in which the organization does its work. Computer-based simulation tools have been used in many industries to provide managers with prospective insight into problems of work process and organization design mismatch. Many of these simulatio...

Ghajarzadeh and Mohammadifar are to be praised for their excellent report into the emotional intelligence of their medical residents (1). Their results are clear and at the end, they state that the findings “should be considered in education of medical residents”. Certainly emotional intelligence is important in medicine and medical education – not least because it can help learners find their ...