Appellate courts, which have the most control over legal doctrine, tend to operate through collegial (multimember) decision making. How does this collegiality affect their choice of legal doctrine? Can decisions by appellate courts be expected to result in a meaningful collegial rule? How do such collegial rules differ from the rules of individual judges? We explore these questions and show tha...

BACKGROUND For health care professionals, clinical practice is a vital part of education, and in several countries, teaching is a regulated part of the role of nurses and health care staff. The added responsibility of taking on the teaching of students during clinical practice; thus, balancing clinical and educational demands, might lead to feelings of stress and burnout. Being a skilled and ex...

BACKGROUND Using the thoracic morbidity and mortality classification to document all postoperative adverse events between October 2012 and February 2014, we created surgeon-specific outcome reports (SSORs) to promote self-assessment and to implement a divisional continuous quality improvement (CQI) program, on the construct of positive deviance, to improve individual surgeon's clinical performa...

in-service education programs have provided the professional development level of companies' employers, in the high quality form. the applying of in-service education programs has been a key component of professional development process for staff agro-industry company. the study is utilized experimental solomon four group designs to determine the impact of in-service education programs on agro-...

internet has been perhaps the most outstanding innovation in the field of communication in the history of mankind. the main purpose of this study was to explore the role of internet in the professional development of teachers working in agricultural schools in kermanshah province (n=35). census survey was used due to the small size of the statistical population. a questionnaire was developed ba...

P ractices and hospitals invest significant time and money in recruiting a new physician. From phone interviews to site visits to contract negotiations, it’s a long and involved process. Beyond setting up a new physician’s office and appointment schedule, completing human resources paperwork, and ordering business cards, what does your practice do to support new physicians to ensure they are su...

Poster presentations given at scientific meetings are widely used in medicine, nursing, and allied health professions to communicate research findings. A good poster presentation can be an effective way to share the results of your research with your peers, in a collegial and non-threatening atmosphere. Feedback received during a poster session can be invaluable in refining your research and pr...

Abstract Growth in the internationalization of economic activity has favoured an increase institutional control at a supranational level. A typical example such institutions that wield this is corporate professions as Project Management (PM). Attempting to replicate successful strategies collegial but embracing advantages presented by global markets, confronted dilemma how reconcile demands sta...

This article explores how preschool teachers, over time, collectively manage teaching as a new part of their mission. The study’s empirical data consist two related but temporally separated sets containing collegial discussions among teachers; talks during development process and group interviews with the same teachers six months later. Through theory-driven analysis, using theoretical concept ...