In this chapter, the twin concepts of personal growth and professional development will be examined. In many ways this is timely since governments worldwide are devising largely regulatory ways of ‘driving up’ and sustaining the quality of health care that health professionals provide.(1) However, a theme running throughout the discussion here will be that political pressure for what has been t...

From the Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pa (Dr Hicks); Boston Combined Residency Program in Pediatrics, Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston, Mass (Dr Schumacher); Graduate Medical Education and Student Affairs, Winthrop University Hospital, and Office of Gradu...

This paper presents the detailed description of the Middleware for Application Interconnection in Personal Area Networks (MAIPAN), which is designed to ease distributed service development for mobile and nomadic environment. This middleware provides a uniform computing environment for distributed applications that operate in dynamically changing personal area networks (PANs). MAIPAN hides the p...

Software development processes can generate significant amounts of data that can be periodically analyzed to identify performance problems, determine their root causes and devise improvement actions. However, conducting that analysis manually is challenging because of the potentially large amount of data to analyze and the effort and expertise required. ProcessPAIR is a novel tool designed to h...

The importance of electronic collaboration has risen as successful organisations recognize that they need to convert their intellectual resources into goods and services their customers will value. The shift from personal computing to interpersonal or collaborative computing has given rise to ways of working that may bring about better and more effective use of intellectual resources. Current e...