The Health Care Provider Survey 2007 [ 12] attempted to fill in this critical knowledge gap and help guide in formulating appropriate policies to improve the health system's ability to reach the people with an acceptable quality of services [ 15], and rational skill-mix in foreseeable future.
They are particularly deficient in non-rational skills, such as those needed to sustain relationships, and are not, in fact, well-equipped to be leaders in today's world I have been doing psychotherapy with ex-boarders for 25 years and I am a former boarding-school teacher and boarder.
We still have at our disposal the rational interpretive skills that are the legacy of humanistic education, not as a sentimental piety enjoining us to return to traditional values or the classics but as the active practice of worldly secular rational discourse.
On the other hand, you need rational thinking skills to correctly judge whether your ideas have merit.
Our study group has previously shown that enrichment of the learning context (responsibility for patient care) might be an important factor to improve the training of rational prescribing skills of medical students [ 10].
Even if a child is assessed as having a high IQ, time spent on developing their rational thinking skills is always time well spent.
Can we blame the young for their lack of rational-thinking skills when adults like Mr. Johnson are clueless about theirs?
Appropriate strategies to ensure training quality, rational deployment, retention, skill mix and appropriate regulation of health workers is also needed.
Using in-house "rational drug-design" skills, Merck produced Crixivan, the most popular of the latest generation of AIDS drugs.
Medical school can, and should, address training needs pertaining to clinical skills, rational use of technical procedures, community health, practice management and communication, which are indeed useful in any situation.
