Wales Institute of Digital Information (WIDI): A Model of Collaborative Health Education, CPD, Research and Innovation.

The Wales Institute of Digital Information has developed a flexible model of education, CPD, research and innovation for the Welsh health and care sectors, in the digital arena. The co-produced model had produced significant benefits for both health employers and the Universities involved in the partnership. The model is continuing to develop collaborative educational provision from level 2 to level 8 and is concentrating on expanding its digital research and innovation offering to the health and care sector in a similar co-developed collaborative way.

Characterising the health and social care segment of the BCS (The Chartered Institute for IT) membership and their continuing professional development needs.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to identify and characterise the health and social care membership of the British Computer Society (BCS), an international informatics professional organisation, and to determine their ongoing development needs.

Methods: A prepiloted online survey included items on professional regulatory body, job role, work sector, qualifications, career stage, BCS membership (type, specialist group/branch activity (committees, event attendance)), use of BCS.org career planning/continuing professional development (CPD) tools, self-reported digital literacy and other professional registrations.

Optimizing Assessment of Surgical Knot Tying Skill.

Objectives: Knot tying is a fundamental surgical skill. Existing knot tying models assess tying efficiency and errors but do not address respect for tissue. Development of a model that assesses tissue displacement during knot tying may provide a good surrogate for respect for tissue, allow detection of expertise, and offer an improved training platform for skill acquisition.

Effect of preoperative antibiotic regimen on development of infection after intestinal surgery: Prospective, randomized, double-blind study.

A prospective, randomized, double-blind study was performed to compare preoperative antibiotic preparation with neomycin (group 1), neomycin and tetracycline (group 2), and placebo (group 3) in patients undergoing elective intestinal surgery. The 196 patients were approximately equally distributed among the three study groups, which proved similar to each other in terms of age, sex, diagnosis, site of lesion, and operative procedure. There were significantly (P < 0.

Quality of medical care.

QUALITY OF MEDICAL CARE MAY BE CONSIDERED UNDER THREE HEADINGS: (1) how to describe or define it; (2) how to measure it; (3) how to achieve it.The profession, the health administrator, the consumer, and others, in attempting to define quality of medical care are like the blind men describing an elephant, because of their different viewpoints. Quality is not an absolute but a goal.

DISASTER MEDICAL CARE AND SHELTER-The Federal Program.

The role of the physician in event of natural disaster or overwhelming (perhaps nuclear) attack by an enemy is:To assist the layman in preparing to meet his own health needs in a disaster situation until organized health services can reach him. To prepare and plan for the provision of organized medical care when conditions permit. To extend his own capability to render medical care outside his normal specialty.