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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"medical practitioners"”.
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Medical Practitioners' use of genetic counselling services in Cape Town
… need for these professionals. In South Africa, medical practitioners in private practice are increasingly making use of the services of genetic counsellors in the routine clinical management of their patients. In this research study medical practitioners in private practice in Cape Town, who …
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Professionalism Among Medical Practitioners: A Case Study of Rural Physicians
… career path. The elite position in society of medical practitioners has been threatened during the 20th Century by new and increasing market pressures. The main hypotheses addressed in this project is the determination of the directional change of the attitudes that represent professionalism as …
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Exploring rape myth acceptance among general medical practitioners in South Africa
… of professionals that assist victims are general medical practitioners and in a country like South Africa, that has a high rate of rape, it is not uncommon for general medical practitioners to find themselves assisting victims. Previous research has suggested that professionals who assist victims …
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South African medical practitioners’ experiences of the current health-care delivery system
… that was perceived as greener pastures, as medical practitioners become increasingly dissatisfied with governmental policy, wage negotiations, work-place disillusionment, lack of service delivery, expressions of corruptions, and lack of resources. This research aimed to thematically analyse …
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Surgery at Sea: An Analysis of Shipboard Medical Practitioners and Their Instrumentation
… researchers. Historical research into maritime medical practices, however, rarely uses archaeological data to support its claims. The primary objective of this thesis is to incorporate data sets from the medical assemblages of two shipwreck sites and one museum along with historical data into a …
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Hearing Health Awareness among Medical Practitioners Managing Patients with Diabetes in South Africa
… with diabetes (PWD). It is unknown as to whether medical practitioners (MPs) managing PWD are aware of DM related auditory symptoms and in turn counsel and refer PWD for audiological assessment and management. Aim and Objectives. The study had four aims and several objectives per aim. The first …
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A Quest for Common Ground: Communication Factors Among Latino Patients, Medical Practitioners and Interpreters in the Daviess County, Kentucky Area
… between Mexican patients and American medical nurses in the Daviess County, Kentucky area? The project focused on the interpersonal aspects of culture and communication that occurred during the communication process of sharing ideas, information, and feelings. Previous studies focused …
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A survey of the knowledge and perceptions of South African medical practitioners concerning the use of medical cannabis by patients
… a demand for use of cannabis amongst patients. Medical personnel feel understandably uninformed and confused by the discrepancy between the available information and the increasing interest that patients and their families have demonstrated towards cannabis. They are therefore challenged to …
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Agreeing on a way forward: management of patient refusal of treatment decisions in Victorian hospitals
… theory, of the processes adopted by nurses and medical practitioners when patients with serious illness refuse medical treatment. The study seeks to identify the main constraints confronting nurses and medical practitioners and to explain the key factors that moderate the processes of dealing …
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An Inclusive Business Model Innovation in the Delivery of Blended Undergraduate Medical Education
… by 2030 there will be a shortage of 1.1 million medical practitioners in Africa. Establishing medical schools is difficult and expensive. Existing schools, albeit under increasing austerity pressure, need to increase their output of medical practitioners. This project aims to explore the …
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Knowledge, attitutes and practices of medical doctors on pharmacotherapy for smoking cessation in Khomas region, Namibia
… outcome, access to smoking cessation services in medical practice in Namibia is unknown. The study aims to assess the knowledge, attitudes and practice of SC pharmacotherapy among medical doctors in Khomas region, Namibia. A cross-sectional analytic study design was conducted among medical …
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Stress amongst medical doctors in the Western Cape
… stressors that form part of the daily routine of medical practitioners as well as financial pressures, insufficient budgets, a challenging working environment, information overload and threats of litigation can threaten the health and well-being of the medical practitioner. Various reasons …
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Male Anorexia Nervosa: an Exploratory Study
… and overlooked completely in clinical, medical and school settings because of the misperception that it is a disorder exclusively present in females. The DSM-IV largely contributes to this misnomer due to the gender-biased criteria. The purpose of this exploratory study was to identify …
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Evaluation of policy regulating access to South African Social Security Agency's disability grants in Umlazi township
… the lack of relevant training for staff and medical practitioners, the lack of community engagement and awareness, medical practitioners who use their discretion to make recommendations to the South African Social Security Agency (SASSA) administrators, the risk of inclusion and exclusion …
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An image based colorimetric technique for portable blood gas analysis
… of carbon dioxide and the pH. It provides the medical practitioners with insight into the patient’s respiratory health, the metabolic activity in the body and the health of the renal system. The emphasis of the thesis is based on the development of the colorimetric technique to measure the pH …
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Evaluation of the competence and attitudes of primary care physicians towards information technology
… the design of software for South African general medical practitioners (GP's). The author wanted to give SD's a cognitive model of general medical practice in the hope that this will improve the relevancy of future medical software. This cognitive model is in the form of a set of principles that …
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The role of medical simulation curriculum in developing acute care clinical competence in undergraduate medical students in South Africa
… role, including the limits and possibilities, of medical simulation as a pedagogical method in an undergraduate acute care clinical skills curriculum within a South African tertiary education environment. The study consisted of two phases. During phase one, I conducted a modified Delphi study to …
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Intimate cartographies : body maps and the epistemic encounter in China and Britain, 1893-1985
… body that continue to destabilize contemporary medical practice. I explore the fate of maps that medical practitioners in China and Britain traced on paper and on people. Rather than representing what could be directly observed, these maps made visible what could be felt. Body maps offer a …
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An analysis of communication between health-care workers and Xhosa-speaking patients in a Cape Town hospital, from the perspective of language cognition and inter-cultural communication
… properly due to differences in language between medical practitioners and patients. In particular the thesis is concerned with English-speaking doctors and their Xhosa-speaking patients in Cape Town. This thesis studies interactions between ten Xhosa patients and five English-speaking doctors at …
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Sequential short-text classification with neural networks
Medical practice too often fails to incorporate recent medical advances. The two main reasons are that over 25 million scholarly medical articles have been published, and medical practitioners do not have the time to perform literature reviews. Systematic reviews aim at summarizing published …
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