BACKGROUND The topic of how to prevent and reduce burnout has drawn great attention from researchers and practitioners in recent years. However, we know little about how mentoring as a form of social support exerts influence on employee burnout. AIM This study aims to examine the contingency side of the mentoring-burnout relationship by addressing the exploratory question of whether individua...

Supervised training periods in primary care have been used as spaces for teaching and extension in the area of health, making it feasible to include undergraduates in concrete teaching-learning scenarios. The aim of this study was to analyze the perceptions of dental students about the importance of supervised training periods in Family Health Units to their professional education. The sample c...

Little discussion has occurred in the health profession literature with respect to how the "self" is constructed, despite the imagination and attention it has garnered from philosophers and theorists in various other disciplines. Yet this subject has surprisingly ethical overtones for health professional education and practice. In this paper notions of the self are briefly considered and it is ...

Although neither pediatricians nor psychologists can provide alone for the vast needs of children and families in our increasingly complex society, these needs can be met through effective collaboration. An ideal model for collaboration would exist if pediatricians and psychologists worked together in practice teams, for which developmental-behavioral pediatricians might serve as consultants. T...

Abstract Background and Objectives: Study of clinical competence in nursing helps determine the quality of health care delivered to patients. Given the priority of observance of principles over caretaking and necessity of spirituality existence at the core of health care provision, this study was conducted to investigate clinical competence and its relationship with professional ethics and s...

Background: Individual and professional features have a positive impact on success, performance improvement, and other behavioral variables in all organizations. Social health is an important components for the employees of every organization. This research was carried out to investigate the effect of individual and professional factors on the social health of faculty members of Islamic Azad un...

1 Physician. Professional MSc in Family Health, UNINOVAFAPI. Teresina, Piauí, Brazil. 2 Dentist, Doctor. Professional MSc in Family Health, UNINOVAFAPI. Teresina, Piauí, Brazil. 3 Nutritionist, Doctor. Professional MSc in Family Health, UNINOVAFAPI. Teresina, Piauí, Brazil. 4 Nurse, Doctor. Postgraduate Program in Nursing. Federal University of Piauí, UFPI. Teresina, Piauí, Brazil. 5 Physician,...