There is consensus that apprenticeship along the lines of medical school -- students learn the science of medicine in the classroom, then practice it in a hospital, supervised by faculty doctors -- is a better model than traditional student teaching, which is often done for a semester or less and is loosely supervised, if at all, by university faculty.
In Bangladesh, informal village doctors supervised treatment for 20-45% of all TB patients over a six-year period and treatment outcomes were good [ 34].
If you are a heroin addict, you are assigned to a clinic, and you are given your heroin there, for free, where you use it supervised by a doctor or nurse.
Gather together six months or more of doctor supervised weight loss attempts (for example, what diets you have tried unsuccessfully).
The average number of health centers supervised by medical doctors (4.33 ± 1.96) was greater than that of those supervised by nurses (3.66 ± 0.57) (p < 0.001).
Difficult end-of-life decisions are left to families, advised by doctors and supervised by courts in the hardest cases.
It's the same sort of public discomfort that arises when discussing supervised injection sites or doctors being able to prescribe heroin to help addicts lead a somewhat normal life.
The study followed 355 obese AF patients who took part in a doctor-supervised weight-loss program.
The religion, which doesn't permit consumption of alcohol or caffeine, has become comfortable with doctor-supervised medical marijuana use but not recreational use, whether legal or not.
Mr. Rakowski said the Klinger model of doctor-supervised, nurse-practitioner-delivered aesthetic medicine raises the bar on medi-spas because it standardizes training, treatments, safety protocols and efficacy.
Even proper, doctor-supervised use of the medications can trigger psychotic behavior or suicidal thoughts in about 1 in 400 patients, according to a 2006 study in The American Journal of Psychiatry.
