Information about gender, age and specialty group of the respondent is provided in brackets following each comment.
A foundation established by the American Board of Internal Medicine financed a successful test of the approach in three primary care specialties and then encouraged a broad range of specialty groups to develop their own lists.
However, we identified significant variation in practice patterns between the three specialty groups for the number of invasive procedures performed and decisions to limit life-sustaining therapies.
Family physicians had a higher proportion of female physicians than the other specialty groups (30.8% of family physicians vs. 20.0% of internal medicine specialists and 23.6% of infectious disease specialists), although this difference was not statistically significant.
Post-residency global health activity is common in this diverse, multi-specialty group of physicians.
In summary, we found that post-residency global health activity is common in a diverse, multi-specialty group of physicians with leadership and research training.
News that Ketchum Inc., the public relations firm leading the charge to promote chemical-dependent GMO agriculture, is launching a new "specialty group" to capture a slice of the growing organic food market caught many food industry players by surprise last week.
Founded as the voice of individual, independent medical practitioners, it has not adjusted well to the world of large group practices, the advent of managed care, the rise of powerful specialty groups and the influence of the government's Medicare program.
As part of the UKCRN, national Specialty Groups exist in a range of areas, of which two groups are of relevance to orthopaedic research: the 'Musculoskeletal' and 'Injuries and Emergencies' groups.
