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Medicina Interna , Anticoagulantes/administração & dosagem , Fibrilação Atrial/terapia , Doenças Cardiovasculares/prevenção & controle , Feminino , Hepatite C Crônica/tratamento farmacológico , Fraturas do Quadril/prevenção & controle , Terapia de Reposição Hormonal , Humanos , Hipertensão/tratamento farmacológico , Medicina Preventiva , Tuberculose/prevenção & controleRESUMO
In order to make meaningful scholarly contributions, clinician-educators need protected time. Forty-one clinician-educators at the University of Washington recorded their work activities in 30-minute intervals for 2 weeks. The average work week was 58.7 hours (SD = 13.8). The time devoted to scholarship, 7.6 hours (13%), was significantly less than the 20% designated for scholarship in the clinician-educator job description (p < .001); 42% of scholarly work occurred outside the regular work week. At a time when many schools rely on clinician-educators to sustain their clinical and teaching missions, schools should ensure that faculty have adequate time and resources to meet scholarly expectations for promotion.
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Docentes de Medicina , Carga de Trabalho , Adulto , Feminino , Humanos , Masculino , WashingtonAssuntos
Medicina Interna/tendências , Anticoagulantes/uso terapêutico , Fibrilação Atrial/tratamento farmacológico , Doenças Cardiovasculares/terapia , Feminino , Infecções por HIV/tratamento farmacológico , Humanos , Osteoporose Pós-Menopausa/tratamento farmacológico , Medicina Preventiva/tendências , Inibidores Seletivos de Recaptação de Serotonina/uso terapêuticoRESUMO
Bordetella spp. cause respiratory tract diseases in warm-blooded animals. Only Bordetella bronchiseptica has been reported to cause bacteremia in humans, and this rare infection usually occurs with pneumonia in immunocompromised patients. We describe "Bordetella hinzii" bacteremia in an AIDS patient without a respiratory illness. Combining biochemical phenotyping with fatty acid analysis permitted preliminary identification of this previously undescribed pathogen; identity was confirmed by DNA-DNA hybridization. This report extends the spectrum of human infections caused by the bordetellae.