conclusions to resolve the unequal geographic distribution of physicians, it is necessary to consider the key factors affecting the attractiveness of a district for gps and the existing demand for health services. attempting to resolve the developmental inequalities among different districts, as well as implementing motivational policies to encourage physicians to work in less developed distric...

results one hundred and eighty-eight anesthesiologists (84.3 %) agreed to participate in the study. while all participants had made their first attempts in neuraxial blocks (nbs) when they were residents, this ratio was detected as 96.8% for pbs. all participants learned neuraxial and pbs on patients in the operating theater. education proficiency ratios for spinal, epidural and pbs were 98.1 %...

background and purpose: professional autonomy in nursing is defined as working in a self-determined environment and making decisions based on professional judgment. this study aimed to evaluate professional autonomy and its association with individual factors in nurses employed at teaching hospitals affiliated to kerman university of medical sciences in the southeast of iran in 2013. methods: t...

background education is crucial to improve the preventive behaviors of patients with hepatitis b. the professional collaboration of care-centered model (pccc) is one novel educational model that has shown promising effects in recent studies. objectives thus, this study aimed to assess the effects of patient education based on pccc on the knowledge of patients with hepatitis b regarding preventi...

BACKGROUND Experts have historically recommended better integration of public health content into medical education. Whether this adoption is associated with physician practice location has not been studied. PURPOSE To examine the association between medical student perception of their public health and community medicine instruction and practice location in a Health Professional Shortage Are...

Health care and social care in the UK, as elsewhere, is increasingly expected to organise its service delivery in inter-professional arrangements. A burgeoning body of research on this work is examining the different forms that inter-professional practice actually takes. This marks a distinct departure from an early unitary view of the demands of interprofessional practice (IPP), with correspon...

OBJECTIVE To identify the main reason James Cook University (JCU) Bachelor of Medicine, Bachelor of Surgery graduates chose their internship location and first four practice relocations. DESIGN & PARTICIPANTS This cross-sectional study invited 261 JCU medical graduates to participate in an email or telephone survey. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Graduates' main reason for choosing internship locati...

OBJECTIVES To ascertain which factors are most significant in a general practitioner's decision to stay in rural practice and whether these retention factors vary in importance according to the geographical location of the practice and GP characteristics. DESIGN National questionnaire survey. The method of paired comparisons was used to describe the relative importance of the retention items....

APPAM members do a lot of what might be called “applied social science research.” They use scientific methods to describe problems of concern to public policy, to explore their causes, and to estimate the effects of existing policies. This laudable commitment to empiricism, however, often inhibits analysts from taking the next step that is logically required of policy thinking: asking “What if....