Essays on Medical Education

Introduction

The health of individuals and communities is dependent on many factors defined by the environment and circumstances. Among the environmental factors affecting the health of the people are disease and illness beliefs of some cultures and communities. The type of health and illness belief found in a specific group of people influences the outcome of the disease assessment process. The United States continues to experience high population growth rate leading to increasing diversity in the delivery of health care. Therefore, health care providers need more knowledge and skills on how to deal with people from diverse populations to increase ...

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Abstract

The healthcare providers are focused to enhance the healthcare status in the country by means of remaining responsive towards the healthcare need of the nation. The public healthcare organizations address the healthcare need the residents at the national level by offering the effective healthcare services. The current paper has conducted the situational analysis by means of conducting PESTEL and SWOT analysis to assess the external and internal environment and it has been observed that Hamad Medical Corporation has the potential and resource to extend its healthcare services to address the wellbeing of the nation in a broader ...

Introduction

Health policy can be defined as a plan or decision combined with actions to achieve specific healthcare goals by implementing key strategies within the society (WHO, 2016). As per the World Health Organization (WHO), an explicit health policy is known to be associated with several success factors such as development of a vision for the future and establishment of key targets for the short and long-term. Health policies enable organizations, institutes, societies, and groups to define outline, propose new goals, and inculcate different roles across various healthcare sectors (Záliš, et al. 2016). Healthcare policies are known to unite ...

Historical perspectives regarding the delivery of health care in the United States

The delivery of health care in the United States has undergone many reforms to improve the quality of care, efficiency, and develop universal access to health care. The first perspective focuses on the establishment of hospitals. America founded its first hospital in the mid-1700s. The hospital system became fully functional in the 1850s characterized by unskilled labor and hospitals owned by physicians who would provide care at their homes. The health care condition was deplorable as people went to hospitals because there was no other alternative. The second health care perspective is in medicine and medical education. In 1847, ...

The medical training is perceived to be the most stressful experience. The medical school environment is challenging to most of the students as they have to deal effectively with different areas while developing their career (Jetten, Haslam & Haslam, 2012). The medical education is for both development of the professional identity and the medical knowledge. The professional identities are usually contested and allowed through the synergistic external and internal process of the identification which is constituted in and through artefacts and language in the institutional sites(White, Borges & Geiger,2011). Therefore, the manner in which the medical students develop the ...

Every high-school student has to make a very hard and stressful decision - choose his or her future career. Choosing a career is an important task, as one is to find the best match between the personality, knowledge, skills and interests. Nowadays modern world and society has hundreds professions available and presents a great range of job opportunities: business, service, science, medicine, education, arts and etc. A person may choose a profession he likes, enjoy the studies, by afterwards encounter problems when searching for a job. Because of that every aspect of the challenging decision has to be thought ...

Executive Summary

The purpose of the paper is to create marketing plan for the new service of existing business division. Johnson & Johnson was selected because it is recognized as one of the most successful and expensive in the world. Producing different devices and products, the company can organize the service care, for example, through the creation of separate service division. The main direction can be at first in the gynecological segment as it manufactures a wide range of products for women, including Gynecare line. Company’s mission, vision and values described in its Credo were analyzed for the new business division. ...

Critical understanding of selected key concepts and theories related to core areas of academic practice.

There are many different approaches to designing educational courses, and the use of online technologies offers more flexibility in this area than ever before. There needs to be a strong link between educational intentions and the course content, of course, but the material also needs to be presented in such a way that it is accessible to the individual and suits the learning style of the student and the teaching style of the educator (Morgan & Houton, 2011). One such theory that places the learner at the central point of his or her own education is the constructivist approach. This ...

Information Paper on TC 8-800 Medical Education and Demonstration

1. Purpose: To explain medical education and demonstration of individual competence. 2. Facts:

The Soldier Medic has the mission to offer the necessary medical treatment to the combat soldier.

The Soldier Medic should be prepared to save lives of those in combat, especially when they are on the battlefield. Hence, the Soldier Medic must validate their skills every year.

Certification in Biennial Emergency Medical Technician with a basic recertification consistent with AR 40-68

Certification in Basic Life Support The Soldier Medic’s main mission is to render casualty care including patient assessment, basic life support, fracture management, hemorrhage control, and shock prevention and treatment.

The Soldier Medic’s core skills include airway management, trauma management, and morphine administration.

Soldiers who are MOS qualified are those who completed their 68W10 Health Care Specialist Course and received a certification in NREMT-B. These soldiers require no ...

Innovative and new ways have been opened by the widespread use and adoption of mobile phone technologies. These technologies have improved health care service delivery tremendously. The mobile applications can also help individual patients in the management of their wellness as well as health. Their adoption has been as quick as their development. These applications are believed to be the main methods of ensuring delivery of high quality healthcare services. Despite all the advantages, the mobile phone health applications present certain risks as well as limitations that must be addressed. The relevant authorities need to regulate the use of ...

Physician and nursing shortage has devastating implications for health care quality. Recent studies reveal that healthcare facilities with fewer patients at a particular time depict considerable and better health outcomes. Shortages of nurses also influences the delivery of the long-term care that also integrates various care such as those in nursing homes.

Significance

This topic intends to improve the understanding and awareness about the implications of shortages of care givers on the healthcare systems. While it is agreeable by the experts that there is the shortage of certified nurse midwives in the country and the current consideration is likely to ...

Nursing

Introduction The process involved in health promotion is to enable an effective dissemination of information about certain health problems in order for the people to improve their state of health or increase control over a certain health issue. Identifying the cause of health problem begins with probing, which involves determining the causation of the issue at hand. Difficulty in breathing is an example of a health issue that translates to several health conditions that people are not aware about. The discussion encompasses a short discussion about difficulty in breathing followed by articulation of the data collection process that entails ...

The internet provides a great educational setting for evidence-based practice for DNP-prepared nurses. Four of the most common online continuous learning techniques include distant learning, online research, peer sharing, and patient-nurse interaction. While most of these techniques existed before the advent of the internet, they included rather tedious processes. Some of the processes include making numerous trips to school libraries, manual cataloging, taking notes, as well as attending meetings and conferences. The internet, however, has advanced the DNP-Prepared nurse’s learning experience by offering a limitless capacity of skill acquisition and course development strategies. The following, therefore, are some ...

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that exists a shortage of more than four million healthcare employees, including doctors and nurses, across the globe (Aluttis, Tewabech and, Frank 33). The developing nations are the most affected. Specifically, Emigration is one of the reasons why developing nations have a shortage of healthcare workers. Developing countries, in spite of having colleges of health sciences, often do not remunerate their healthcare workers appropriately (Crisp and Chen 950). On the other hand, remunerations that developed nations offer to doctors from underdeveloped nations are lower, especially when compared to those of physicians that born ...

Abstract

Lately, the health care sector in New Zealand has been facing challenges related to the old-fashioned method used in offering services. In many occasions, it has made it difficult for patients to access affordable health services since many health hospitals lack the technological capacity to handle the increasing numbers of patients with different ailments. Due to this, the relevant agencies have been pushing health service sector, particularly the public health sector, to embrace modern technology so as to address the health crisis in the country. This has seen many health organizations to launch programs geared towards adherence to the ...

Emergency medical services can be defined as the medical attentions and services that are dedicated to the provision of treatments and medical care to patients outside a hospital setting. These services are made available at the urgent need and are performed by authorized and dedicated personnel. The role of emergency medical services is generalized being provision of urgently needed medical care to patients with acute health complications; the medical attention provided is aimed at rescuing the patients and thus saving lives of people. Therefore, most emergency medical providers are supposed to be trained in service production to acute medical ...

Abstract

The issue of the necessity and value of Graduate Medical Education, also known as GME, is a matter of studies and researches on the local levels. The economics of such phenomenon as GME is pretty complicated and has lots of positive impact. GME is extremely expensive as it is held nationwide. Medicaid is the main program that finances GME, with funds being delivered on both federal and national level. GME allows controlling the number of physicians and avoiding shortages. It creates conditions for saving recruitment costs that can be redirected to patient care needs, increases patient care quality and ...

Urinary reflux refers to the abnormal flow of urine from the kidneys to the bladders and then back to the kidneys through these tubes referred to as the ureters. Urinary system is designed in such a way that no backward flow of urine occurs from the bladders back to the kidneys hence causing massive infections (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, par.1).

What are common causes for urinary reflux?

Urinary reflux is caused by a defect at the tip of the ureters tube that usually carries urine from the kidneys to the bladders. This defect reduces the pressure at which the urine is being pumped ...

An individual suffering from a panic attack may react to the overpowering anxiety at home, in a car, or in a public place. Sometimes those around him do not even recognize what is happening. A recent posting on Facebook by Amber Smith brought international attention to the social stigma and presentation of a person suffering from panic attacks. The 22-year-old woman submitted photographs of her “normal” self and one taken immediately following an attack; the photos were accompanied by commentary on the way society reacts to her disorder (Appendix A). In an article by Today Healthy Living Newsletter, it ...

ABSTRACT

Statistics reveal that there are over one million asylum seekers around the world every year. Asylums seeker have different definitions, but the most basic idea is that they are people seeking to leave their countries because their lives are at risk because of their race, color, religion, political persecution, war, or natural disasters (Bozorgmehr and Razum, 2015; Esses, V. et al, 2008). Many factors determine whether the refugees will be accepted in their intended country or not. Demographic variables, as well as the attitudes of the natives and the attitudes of the asylum seekers, determine the kind of attitude ...

Critical appraisal using PEDro criteria

Conclusion The study provides valuable and reliable insights on self-management of osteoarthritis. In relation to this, the study results indicate that, the adoption OAK (Osteoarthritis of the Knee Self-Management Program) that incorporates healthcare professionals is an effective strategy that can be used to enhanced self-management especially among individuals with osteoarthritis (Coleman et al., 2012). As such, the information provided by the study can be used to create appropriate interventions to enhance the clinical outcomes of individuals with osteoarthritis. Moreover, the study utilized an appropriate study design that enabled the researcher to come up with reliable and valuable findings that ...

Introduction

Knowledge and wisdom are the fundamental elements of the nursing practice. Health care practitioners apply a wide range of theoretical and practical knowledge and approaches in their roles. In the contemporary age, In today’s context health care professionals need a significant amount of data and new knowledge for the purpose of delivering appropriate and quality health care services to the patients. The major question developed within the framework of this paper is clinical simulation and its role in health care practice. The crucial importance of this matter "is on the point of having a significant impact on health ...