Pre-Requisites To Becoming A Doctor
Posted by in Uncategorized on July 19, 2011
The education to become a doctor requires several years of formal education aside from the rigid hospital training in between schooling and eventually, residency training that takes a number of years. After residency, sub-specialty follows which consists of a more detailed training on a certain field such as cardiology or hematology for example. Thus taking up a career in medicine requires the best of ability that anyone can have as a doctor’s responsibility covers the diagnosis of an illness, its treatment, health promotion and rehabilitation.
To become a doctor, one must possess the intellectual capacity to excel in various subjects such as biology, physics, chemistry, mathematics and other subjects on the pre-medicine or preparatory courses. On the medicine course proper, subjects such as anatomy and physiology – the study of the human body parts and its functions, pharmacology – the study of drugs, its therapeutic and toxic effects and its components and drug interactions, nutrition, just to name a few. Thus entrance examinations serve well in identifying the IQ level of students who want to enroll in such field. Having an above average IQ is all the more an advantage as doctors must apply the cognitive, motor and affective aspects of their education all at the same time. Furthermore, it is seldom that such tasks are excellently accomplished simultaneously just as one cannot serve two masters at a time the way doctors do.
A student must be physically and mentally fit as the rigors of training simmers with frustrations and overarching demands both in the mental and physical aspects that test a student’s endurance and defenses. The full vaccination coverage and psychological testing prior to entry to a medicine school and yearly physical exam, however does not guarantee a full protection for good health as even the fittest student breaks down from time to time. It is for such reasons that right from the very beginning enrollees undergo a series of rigid interview by various school personnel to ensure that only the best are being admitted to medicine schools.
Personal choice, motivation and commitment, however are the most important aspect to consider in choosing a career path. A student, even with the gift of intellect and good health will never succeed in any aspect if he lacks such attributes. Studies reveal that students perform well and show a considerable degree of motivation if they like the course or subjects that they are taking compared to those who were forced to undertake tasks they do not like.
Becoming a doctor is not as simple as learning the alphabet but rather involves a complicated and long years of education with personal sacrifices. However, it is also considered as one of the most financially rewarding careers. A cardiologist’s salary for example, is about $250 to $800 monthly – a substantial amount more than enough to purchase all the luxuries in life and not to mention the most treasured aspect that doctors do – reap rewards of friendship, prestige and contribute directly and indirectly for a better and safer place to live in.
How Do Incorrect Prescription Incidents Occur?
Posted by in Uncategorized on July 19, 2011
Pharmaceutical products are designed with a specific intention in mind. Each different type of medication has a specific function or target that it is designed to affect, but this affect can cause more damage than good if it is not needed. Medicines can cause serious damage if they are taken needlessly, either because they are taken in the wrong amount or as the incorrect type of drug.
Pharmaceutical error does occur and can have very serious consequences for those who are the victims of these error. Pharmaceutical errors can occur in a number of different ways, considering the high volume of prescriptions that most pharmacies fill on a daily basis. The most basic, but most potentially devastating error, is the filling of the wrong pharmaceutical product. Most medicines are designed to significantly shift the unhealthy functioning of your body or to assist your bodies natural defense mechanisms. But an incorrectly filled prescription could not only impair your body’s healthy and normal functions, it could also attack your body in a harmful, damaging way.
Another way that incorrect prescription incidents have occurred in the past is by filling the wrong dosage of a prescribed medicine. This too can lead to adverse physical effects. If the prescription is too strong, a normally controlled substance can cause extreme reactions in your body that were not intended by the doctor who wrote the prescription.
Finally, if the wrong instructions are attached to the prescription or if a pharmacist does not properly instruct customers on drug interactions, they can suffer from serious harm. If a person is not properly informed on how to proceed with their prescription, they can unintentional put themselves in a dangerous situation. As a customer, you can be aware of these potential threats to the accuracy of your prescription. Ask your pharmacist to verify that the prescription filled matches the prescription submitted by your doctor.
Why Electronic Medical Records Charting Is a More Efficient Process Than Paper Charting
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Here’s a way to jump-start your practice into seeing why; electronic medical records charting is a more efficient process than paper charting. Figure out the cost of time working with paper charts. It gives a practical comparison of Paper vs Paperless charting environments.
Start by listing each charting function that is performed in your practice. Some typical functions to list are:
- Trips back and forth to racks of folders in the file room.
- Duplication of work effort because files are incomplete or completely missing,
- Chart pulls for the Physician,
- Chart pulls for follow-up faxes and phone calls to patients or health insurers,
- Prescription faxing and refills,
- Lab reports and follow-up correspondence.
You get the idea.
Have each staff member handling charts check off what is relevant to them in their work flow and the amount of time spent on each task. Now we use a little light math.
The number of minutes each staff member spends performing daily charting task is added up independently. Then multiplied by the amount each staff member is paid hourly. With this number in hand you can quickly see how high recurring cost on poorly managed paper file charting can cost the lost of your hard-earned cash.
Having medical practice management software can eliminate hard material cost. Consider cost of the charting room and its contents: Square footage cost,charts, files,racks, ladders, folders, maintenance, fax copiers,toner and endless stacks of paper!
The Center for Medicare and Medicaid services (CMS) says the average cost per physician to adopt a certified EMR is $53,000. With additional annual maintenance cost of $10,000 per physician. The cost for hospitals can reach $1 million to $5 million for installation plus maintenance cost of $1 million annually.To offset these cost CMS offers financial incentives for certification of your software and exhibiting “meaningful use” of your EMR throughout your year.This is an incentive for early deployment of a EMR environment. By 2015 EMR’s will be a required medical practice management tool throughout the USA with non compliance punishable by law.
So in no way is it free or a wash in costs for the change from a paper chart practice to a EMR chart environment. Never the less it is extremely efficient; saving you lost money and affording you better quality of care to the patient. EMR’s present no physical ergonomic challenges like paper charting; So no lost time making trips around the office burning up time and money. Patient history is completely search-able. Charts are simultaneously viewed and updated instantly.The EHR / EMR software also flags drug history,drug doses, side affects, disease interactions and preventive care guidelines.
More software functionality can be acquired and licensed to help with every aspect of your practice. So EMR’s can make your practice manageable and empower your staff to do their jobs with confidence and efficiency.
If you want EMR practice management software but don’t want to manage servers and data backups for EMR software. Software as a Service (SaaS) is a growing software deployment model coming of age and gaining traction in medical practices. “SaaS refers to a type of software deployment in which all of the system’s software and data is hosted and managed at a central data center operated by the software vendor. The physician practice simply uses the system through their web browsers and a broadband Internet connection. The software vendor will manage data backups and updates. The practice will typically pay a monthly subscription fee to use the service, rather than purchase the software up front”… To read more about (SaaS).
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