Use a proven combination of learning principles and exercises to make teaching medical terminology easier. Now in its 7th Edition, Medical Terminology for Health Professions simplifies the process of memorizing complex medical terminology by focusing on the important word parts – the common prefixes, suffixes and root words - to provide a foundation for learning hundreds of medical terms.
The purpose of this book is to present a basic yet comprehensive
treatment of assessment methods for use by health professions educators.
While there are many excellent textbooks in psychometric theory
and its application to large-scale standardized testing programs and
many educational measurement and assessment books designed for
elementary and secondary teachers and graduate students in education
and psychology, none of these books is entirely appropriate for
the specialized educational and assessment requirements of the health
This edition of Innovative Teaching Strategies in Nursing and Related Health
Professions continues the theme of interdisciplinary collaboration in health professions
education. The need to capitalize on the contributions of numerous
healthcare professionals is increasingly more important in light of the current,
complex healthcare system. Education has a knowledge base that crosses over
disciplinary lines and is one we need to understand in order to be effective in
This is an exciting time for professionals associated with physical
activity and the health professions. We have seen a substantial
increase in the amount and type of research being conducted.
Qualitative research has grown in popularity and has gained
respect as a viable method of answering important research questions.
Despite its broad appeal and inclusion in many disciplines,
however, qualitative research often has an ethereal or mystical
feel to it, particularly for those practitioners with strong roots in
physical activity and the health professions.
The world today is changing at a tremendous speed; advances in technology
and communication and changes in the political, economic, demographic
and social changes, all touch our lives. These changes also impact on health
care provision, and the delivery of health services. The aim of this book is to
empower would – be leaders of nursing and allied health professions to be
effective. Leadership in health care is a high priority in the UK and, at the
time of writing, is top of the list for the National Health Service Federation.
This book examines general changes in the regulation of the health professions in
the United Kingdom from a social scientific perspective. It also considers the
historical and contemporary development of regulation for a selection of key
occupational groups in this context, with reference to wider debates about the
health professions. Interest in new approaches to regulation was prompted by the
fact that, by the late 1990s, a number of important shifts were taking place in relation
to such groups in this country. These included the following trends.
Newspaper headlines underscore the challenges that the health professions
face in this period of dramatic change in the American health care enterprise:
critical shortages of nurses and other health professionals, tight budgets and rising
health care costs, increasing public concern about patient safety and medical
errors, and rising criticism of the quality of care that Americans receive, to name
a few. Indeed, the health professions and health care industry are fighting to
retain the public’s confidence that the U.S. health care system can continue to be
the world’s best....
Health Professions Education: A Bridge to Quality makes the case that reform of health professions education
is critical to enhancing the quality of health care in the United States. In laying the footings for this bridge,
the committee that produced this report wishes to underscore that any such reform effort must encompass all
health professionals, recognize each professions contribution, and include those outside education who, to
more and lesser degrees, shape what health professionals are taught.
The purpose of this book is to share with science and health professions educators
the exciting discoveries that are being made by the application of team-based learning
(TBL) to the special challenges of modern medical education.
Professors in these disciplines everywhere face three daunting challenges. First, an
enormous amount of information must be learned, and it keeps growing. Second,
students must learn how to use and apply that information in contexts that vary
enormously between clinical cases and populations of cases.
The contributions to this edited collection are based on a number of the many papers first presented at the International
Sociological Association conference on Professions in Transition, held in Leicester in April 1992. The original theme of the
conference reflected the widespread view amongst academics that an accumulating range of changes occurring on an
international scale necessitated a review of the professions.
A proven and unique combination of learning principles and exercises, this highly acclaimed book continues to get better! Medical Terminology for Health Professions, Sixth Edition, simplifies the process of learning hundreds of complex medical terms. The See and Say pronunciation system makes pronouncing unfamiliar terms easy. Because word parts are integral to learning medical terminology, mastery of these "building blocks" is emphasized in every chapter.
This book has emerged from our experience in the education of allied health
professionals (AHPs), particularly student occupational therapists. As tutors we
were aware that students, especially as they neared qualification, struggled to
find a suitable textbook examining the key areas that contextualised their study
of profession-specific skills.
It is imperative that the health care professional have knowledge of medical law, ethics, and
bioethics so that the client may be treated with understanding, sensitivity, and compassion.
No matter what the professional’s education and experience, any direct client contact involves
ethical and legal responsibility. It also is imperative that this knowledge be used to
provide the best possible service for the physician employer. Our goal is to provide the
health care professional with an adequate resource for the study of medical law, ethics, and
It will not have escaped the notice of anybody who happens to be living
in Europe at this time that the organisation of health care services has
been and continues to be in a seemingly permanent state of flux. In
some countries this is perhaps more noticeable than others, but no
health system is free of the challenge of change. The dynamic for this
process has been primarily, but not solely, one of controlling costs, but
the modernising of health services delivery within Europe has proved to
be not simply one of financial stringencies....
When we suffer personally, and when we encounter the suffering of
another person, we are confronted with many questions. A taken-forgranted
and apparently robust future now jeopardized leaves in its place
a hollow of uncertainty and fragility. Painfully unsettling, suffering seems
to call forth a natural human proclivity to distance oneself from the specter
of vulnerability. Understandably there is a tendency for healthcare
professionals to protect ourselves from the ravages of suffering encountered
in the lives of the persons we care for.
Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí sinh học quốc tế đề tài : Systematic inclusion of mandatory interprofessional education in health professions curricula at Gunma University: a report of student self-assessment in a nine-year implementation
European national policy-makers broadly agree on the core objectives that their
health care systems should pursue. The list is strikingly straightforward: universal
access for all citizens, effective care for better health outcomes, efficient use of
resources, high-quality services and responsiveness to patient concerns. It is a
formula that resonates across the political spectrum and which, in various,
sometimes inventive, configurations, has played a role in most recent European
national election campaigns...
Health care is a key arena of the modernisation of welfare states. Tighter
resources and a changing spectrum of diseases, coupled with new
modes of citizenship and demands for public safety, challenge the
health care systems throughout the Western world. This book sets out
to examine new perspectives on the governance of health care and to
highlight the role of the professions as mediators between the state
and its citizens.