Generalised architecture for languages, encyclopaedias and nomenclatures in medicine (GALEN) has developed a new generation of terminology tools based on a language independent model describing the semantics and allowing computer processing and multiple reuses as well as natural language understanding systems applications to facilitate the sharing and maintaining of consistent medical knowledge.
We have tested the students during their last term, and have thus been able to show what is maintained of the knowledge two years after the mandatory calculation test.
In addition, the theory of Health Belief Model HBMM) 21 maintained that knowledge of disease had impacts on individual's health behaviors, such as compliance to preventative services and health care suggestions.
We would argue, however, that there may be another motive behind the lack of explanation of decisions regarding a patient's health and that is that maintaining an asymmetry of knowledge allows the physician to maintain power over the patient [ 18, 19].
At the same time, however, this concern with maintaining knowledge of the past must not ossify into a "short course" of propositions that trivialize that past or that prevent people from evolving in ways of their own choosing.
Further, significantly smaller majorities of physician than laboratory respondents found continuing educational resources helpful in enabling them to provide MO care; for example, only 67.6% of physicians compared to 94.1% testing labs and 97.1% of referring labs reported that CME was fairly or very helpful in maintaining knowledge of MOT.
Pharmacists also spoke of the rapid change in medical practice and the challenges faculty and students face maintaining knowledge of technical and therapeutic advances.
Respondents from both testing and referring laboratories shared positive views regarding the helpfulness of most continuing educational resources, with majorities perceiving most identified resources as fairly or very helpful in maintaining knowledge of MOT.
Indigenous peoples of the Pamirs have maintained knowledge of a multiplicity of medicinal plants through periods of socio-cultural and ecological change.
How is open and interactive discussion of ideas important to maintaining a field of knowledge?
The biggest challenge we face in this role is the importance of staying up to date with the ever-changing rules and maintaining a level of knowledge of the latest regulations.
