Modern healthcare faces the challenges of rising costs, increasing expectations of patients and changing disease patterns. Physicians practise medicine in an era of easy availability and access to a plethora of modern and sometimes expensive diagnostic aids. The powerful utility of clinical skills cannot be underestimated nor lost. The physician has a powerful platform to encourage the rational...

Trainees in laboratory medicine must develop skills in laboratory management. Guidelines are detailed for laboratory staff in training, directors responsible for staff development and professional bodies wishing to generate material appropriate to their needs. The syllabus delineates the knowledge base required and includes laboratory planning and organisation, control of operations, methodolog...

ABSTRACT: End user applications (such as spreadsheets) have been cited as a previously ignored yet potentially significant risk to financial reporting in the wake of The Sarbanes-Oxley Act (PricewaterhouseCoopers [PwC] 2004; Ernst&Young [E&Y] 2004). We developed a realistic spreadsheet model in order to expose students to internal control issues inherent in a spreadsheet environment. By complet...

From an internal audit perspective, enterprise systems have created new opportunities and challenges in managing internal as well as external risks. In this work, we report results of a survey that examines internal auditors’ ability to identify and manage operational, financial, technological, compliance and other risks as the organization migrates to an ERP environment. Our findings show that...

These observations were made by a Persian mathematician some 900 years ago. His sentiments are self-evident but no less easy to accept especially for operating surgeons. The reasons for staying on in the operating theatre are rarely financial. A recent survey shows that top surgeons earn more than ministers, which in Singapore, is quite a bit. If the reasons for continuing operative surgery are...

optimized decision making in the market of stocks and bonds needs utilizing suitable tools and skills in order to choose the best choices for investment. the most important financial information of corporations is their financial reports that help analyzing basics of stocks. current research by basing basic information of corporation’s financial reports, has tried to examine traces of 10 instan...

the hospital, for whatever reason. • Human resources: both the number of people required (capacity) and the skills required (competence). • Quality: measuring and ensuring high quality clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction. • Operating efficiency: ensuring that scarce resources are optimally used. • Financial viability: pricing to ensure affordability, and putting in place revenue and cost...

OBJECTIVES To assess the relationship between performance- and informant-based measures of activities of daily living (ADLs) in patients with early dementia and burden or psychological distress experienced by the patients' caregivers. DESIGN Descriptive study. SETTING Ambulatory center. PARTICIPANTS Thirty-four patient-caregiver dyads in which the patient had mild dementia (Mini-Mental St...

Impacted by educational debt and stagnant salaries, the financial viability of a career in veterinary medicine is a growing concern for many within the veterinary profession. Many veterinarians are small business owners, which requires them to learn and practice good business and practice management skills. Despite the recognized importance of business skills to the success of the veterinary pr...