The programme includes research partners from Canada and Ecuador with diverse disciplinary specialties such as epidemiology, toxicology, nutrition, public health and rural sociology (GHRP 2011; Spiegel et al. 2011).
Instructors who teach introductory courses spend the majority of their time teaching subjects outside of their sub-disciplinary specialty due to the sheer breadth of topics covered in those courses.
Focus on your disciplinary strength and skills.
On the other hand, other specialists favoured a multi-disciplinary (multi-specialty) outpatient clinic as this would be in the best interests of the patient.
Our study findings suggest that policy makers should shift their focus away from specialty multi-disciplinary wound care teams external to facilities and direct their attention towards strengthening evidence based primary care within LTC.
Particularly now, in her role as director of CCTS, which formed in 2006 with a $34 million Clinical and Translational Science Award from NIH, Jackson has become a convert to transdisciplinary science, applying multiple specialties and crossing disciplinary boundaries to answer complex questions.
That specialty, and the accompanying disciplinary settings in which experts gather, will remain a centrally important and constant factor in career success.
Another variable is the rather mono-disciplinary nature of ophthalmology as a specialty.
We found no studies concerning GP or practice predictors of disciplinary sanctions specifically, but studies involving all medical specialties [ 7– 9] have shown an increased risk of receiving a disciplinary sanction among male doctors.
In one specialty, board certified physicians experienced fewer state disciplinary actions than non-certified physicians, but equal numbers of malpractice claims [ 20].
It would be of interest to explore if the proportions of male and female doctors differ in these two categories and to examine whether the risk of disciplinary action differs for doctors who are in a Specialty Training post compared with doctors who are working in a non-training post.
