(1) The selected parameters of evaluation were: institutional and educational objectives; facilities and equipment, both in school and hospital; financial funds disponibilities; teaching (docente resources; academic and administrative structure; curricular structure; teaching methodology, including planning and systematic; evaluation proceedings, in both discent and docente aspects; docent-assistant integration; scientific production.
(2) The biomedical librarian has been placed in a patient care setting working in the specific environment of a six-year medical school guided by the docent team concept (docent is defined as a clinician-scholar).
(3) Rank-order correlations were computed to compare the docents' and students' perceptions.
(4) In the study reported here, the authors investigated the perceptions of medical students and faculty mentors, called docents, regarding the docents' role.
(5) Five case reports about patients with glomus tumors surgically treated at Angiology and Orthopedics Department of the Hospital Provisional Docente "Dr. Antonio Luaces Iraola" in Diego de Avila are going to be presented.
(6) They were requested to rate these activities on the basis of how often they would be carried out by a docent ideally and on the basis of how often in their experience they were actually carried out.
(7) The positive aspects included active participation in "IDA--Integração Docente-Assistencial" programs, existence of pedagogical support and considerable assistential activity at the school hospitals.
(8) A group of 74 patients with allergic conjunctivitis from the out patient service of allergy of the Hospital Pediátrico Provincial Docente José Luis Miranda, in Santa Clara, were studied.
(9) A total of 197 students and 22 docents responded to a questionnaire asking them to rate 32 docent activities on a 4-point scale where 1 = seldom done and 4 = very often done.
(10) The sample consisted of 100 newborn infants from the Maternity Clinic of Hospital Regional Docente Trujillo-Perú, during the period from March to May 1990.
(11) They had received the protocol of preventive activities of the "Unitat Docent de Medicina Familiar i Comunitària de Barcelona" during 1989.
(12) Both the docents and the students perceived the docents as actually carrying out their essential role-modeling, teaching, and patient-care functions.
(13) Within this framework the specifically qualified Clinical Medical Librarians function within the docent unit.
(14) The characteristics of the students, docents, and setting that contributed to successful partnerships are identified.
(15) Herein we report a case of malignant primary tumor of the ureter that had been seen and treated in the Department of Urology of Hospital Docente Clinico Quirurgico "10 de Octubre", in Havana, Cuba.
(16) The students and docents were found to favor the partnership system and reported that most partnerships worked well.
(17) Although both the docents and the students consistently felt that more time should be devoted to each activity than actually was, the rank-order correlation between the docents' rating of the ideal and actual practice was .87, and between the students' ratings of ideal and actual it was .93.
(18) Mean ratings of ideal and actual practice were calculated for each activity as perceived by the docents and by the students.
(19) The present study includes 404 patients with Diabetes Mellitus, admitted into the Angiology Service from the Hospital Provincial Docente Manuel Ascunse Domenech, Camaguey and from Dr. Antonio Luaces Iraola, Ciego de Avila.
(20) The authors report the "I Encontro Paulista de Docentes de Enfermagem Pediátrica".
Doctorate
Definition:
(n.) The degree, title, or rank, of a doctor.
(v. t.) To make (one) a doctor.
Example Sentences:
(1) The results of the evaluation confirm that most problems seen by first level medical personnel in developing countries are simple, repetitive, and treatable at home or by a paramedical worker with a few safe, essential drugs, thus avoiding unnecessary visits to a doctor.
(2) Psychiatry unlike philosophy (with its problem of solipsism) recognizes the existence of other minds from the nonverbal communication between doctor and patient.
(3) Confidence is the major prerequisite for a doctor to be able to help his seriously ill patient.
(4) Another important factor, however, seems to be that patients, their families, doctors and employers estimate capacity of performance on account of the specific illness, thus calling for intensified efforts toward rehabilitation.
(5) During these delays, medical staff attempt to manage these often complex and painful conditions with ad hoc and temporizing measures,” write the doctors.
(6) Their significance in adding to the doctor's knowledge of the patient is delineated.
(7) Other recommendations for immediate action included a review of the Nursing and Midwifery Council and the General Medical Council for doctors, with possible changes to their structures; the possible transfer of powers to launch criminal prosecutions for care scandals from the Health and Safety Executive to the Care Quality Council; and a new inspection regime, which would focus more closely on how clean, safe and caring hospitals were.
(8) Doctors may plausibly make special claims qua doctors when they are treating disease.
(9) There were 54 patients who had a family doctor, 38 felt he could assist in aftercare.
(10) In this way they offer the doctor the chance of preventing genetic handicaps that cannot be obtained by natural reproduction, and that therefore should be used.
(11) The move comes as a poll found that 74% of people want doctors to be allowed to help terminally ill people end their lives.
(12) This investigation examined the extent to which attitudes of doctors who participated in a one-year training programme for general practice changed in intended directions by training.
(13) Doctors have blamed rising levels of type 2 diabetes on the growing number of overweight and obese adults.
(14) But leading British doctors Sarah Creighton , consultant gynaecologist at the private Portland Hospital, Susan Bewley , consultant obstetrician at St Thomas's and Lih-Mei Liao , clinical psychologist in women's health at University College Hospital then wrote to the journal countering that his clitoral restoration claims were "anatomically impossible".
(15) In 1968, nearly 60% of the malignant ovarian tumors were treated by doctors in internal medicine, surgery and radiology etc., rather than gynecology, which was partly because the primary site of the cancer was unknown during the clinical course and partly because the gynecologist gave up treatment of patients in advanced cases.
(16) Doctors, who once treated human body as an entity, are so specialized that none seems to know any more that the head bone is still indirectly connected to the great toe.
(17) This paper describes a computer-based system that would allow doctors, patients, nurses, researchers and experts to participate in medical care in ways that will enhance the usefulness of the system, and will allow the system to grow, adapt and improve as a function of this participation.
(18) Twenty-five of the 29 eligible doctoral programs in nursing participated in the study; results are based on the responses of 326 faculty, 659 students, and 296 alumni.
(19) The position that it is time for the nursing profession to develop programs leading to the N.D. degree, or professional doctorate, (for the college graduates) derives from consideration of the nature of nursing, the contributions that nurses can make to development of an exemplary health care system, and from the recognized need for nursing to emerge as a full-fledged profession.
(20) A doctor the Guardian later speaks to insists it makes no sense.