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This work contains a foreword by Dame Lesley Southgate, President,
Royal Free and University College Medical School, London.
Assessment is a key method of improving standards as well as
establishing competency. However, despite major developments in the
assessment of clinical competence in the last two decades, there is
still more bad practice and ignorance of significant issues in this
area than any other aspect of medical higher education. This book
comprehensively covers all aspects of assessment. It considers
current and future policy and practice, including the Modernising
Medical Careers training programme; it promotes a system
incorporating more meaningful assessments, rather than just 'tests'
of knowledge and skill. "Assessment in Medical Education and
Training" will be useful to everyone involved in healthcare
education, including tutors, trainers, clinical supervisors and
assessors in both primary and secondary care. It will also be
important reading for consultants and general practitioners with
responsibility for registrars, and healthcare education policy
makers and shapers. 'Acquisition of knowledge and skills is not
sufficient alone; we need to be able to apply the knowledge, skills
and strategies learnt, and in turn these can be the appropriate
targets of assessment. There is a movement away from traditional,
multiple-choice tests to assessments that include a wide variety of
methods and so provide for more meaningful assessments which can
better capture significant outcomes in order to assure their future
success.' - Neil Jackson, Alex Jamieson and Anwar Khan, in the
Introduction. 'This thoughtful, provocative and eclectic book is
published at a time of enormous change in the content, structure
and quality assurance of postgraduate medical education in the
United Kingdom. The reader will be challenged and stimulated by the
variety of views and emphases. Essential.' - Dame Lesley Southgate,
in the Foreword.
An interfaith guide to planned giving. Planned gifts are typically
the largest gifts received by a charity and can transform religious
organizations and congregations to become more sustainable,
impactful, and vibrant entities for decades to come. Encouraging
planned gifts to congregations and religious organizations is
essential at this time of tremendous generational wealth transfer;
these gifts also provide an opportunity to enhance relationships
between supporters and organizations. Many congregations and
religious entities fear that they cannot raise these
transformational gifts due to a lack of expertise among staff or
volunteers, the limited financial resources of their constituents,
or the simple discomfort of addressing ultimate issues with donors.
Faithful Giving can help change those dynamics. The book is
intentionally inclusive of Christian and other faith traditions by
offering several case studies from a variety of Christian
denominations and other religions, including Roman Catholic,
Episcopal, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Baptist, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu,
Sikh, and others.
This work contains a Foreword by Merrill Goozner, Author and
Director, Integrity in Science, Center for Science and the Public
Interest, Washington DC. This book exposes why healthcare costs
have been rapidly increasing and includes a close examination of
over-priced drugs. It contains a detailed explanation of how the
drug industry takes billions of dollars from society each year and
proposes radical new ideas to reign in excessive spending on
medicine. Based on the latest research, its unique approach takes
into account the pharmaceutical industry, healthcare policy and
society to offer a wide ranging account. It is invaluable for all
healthcare professionals, especially managers and doctors and
nurses with budgetary responsibilities. It will also be useful for
researchers, policy makers and shapers, pharmaceutical company
executives and general readers with an interest in medical
expenditure. "While most discussions about the fiscal problems
caused by aging societies have focused on pensions and income
security, the more serious landmine in the road ahead is
health-care finance, which will be in full-blown crisis sometime
early in the next decade. That's why this book is timely. Until we
learn to talk openly and honestly about what constitutes good
health, good health care, and the best and most cost-effective way
of achieving both, we'll never have an affordable health-care
system." - Merrill Goozner, in the Foreword.
Malarial Parasites (MPs) cost life and property every year in
significant epidemiological purviews in malaria endemic regions.
Treatments of malaria largely follow some traditionally predefined
Clinical symptoms, resulting into very lower positive predictive
value (ppv) of the tool. The treatment failure cases in malaria
accrue from a combination of some undue intervening factors among
which very poor entertainment of proper diagnosis with Microscopy
of blood samples is very concerning to Roll Back Malaria control
strategy of WHO. In this work, blood samples from malarial
symptomatic patients were screened through RDT and Microscopy. The
incidences of mono infections, and mixed infections of the species
of the genus Plasmodium have been analysed by using the two
diagnostic tools for malarial infections. This study envisaged on
the comparative incidences of MPs between different host and
parasite species groups. The inferences on prevalence status of MPs
implied here, will hopefully offer an initial base for future
workers in tracing out the effectiveness of the curative and
preventive interventions applied during the period of 2005-2010 in
some malaria endemic areas of Bangladesh
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