Hablar de la calidad de la educacion medica es hablar de la competencia de los medicos que forma una determinada escuela, entendida esta competencia como la suma de las adaptaciones de la practica al conjunto de circunstancias sociales especiales, que ocurren dentro de las barreras situacionales de una dada profesion -la medicina en este caso. La evidencia de esta competencia se produce en el desempeno profesional y la evaluacion de este desempeno solo puede ser hecha despues de la graduacion, en el ambiente concreto de la practica medica. En relacion a la calificacion de la institucion docente este ejercicio seria de tipo retrospectivo por lo menos para el medico que este siendo evaluado y tendria un valor discutible; por otro lado, para la institucion en si, tampoco seria suficiente por no tomar en cuenta los componentes de prestacion de servicios y de investigacion, los cuales son igualmente parte del quehacer de la escuela o facultad (AU).

Online communications can be extremely cruel and vicious. They can cause great emotional harm and can take place 24/7. Damaging text and images can be widely disseminated and impossible to fully remove. There are increasing reports of youth suicide, violence, and abduction related to cyberbullying and cyberthreats. This essential resource provides school counselors, administrators, and teachers with cutting-edge information on how to prevent and respond to cyberbullying and cyberthreats. It addresses real-life situations that often occur as students embrace the Internet and other digital technologies: Sending offensive or harassing messages Dissing someone or spreading nasty rumors on sites such as MySpace Disclosing someone's intimate personal information Breaking into someone's e-mail account and sending damaging messages under that person's name Excluding someone from an online group Using the Internet to intimidate The book includes detailed guidelines for managing in-school use of the Internet and personal digital devices, including cell phones. Extensive reproducible appendices contain forms for assessment, planning, and intervention, as well as a 9-page student guide and 16-page parent guide. An accompanying CD of all the reproducible forms and student handouts is included with the book.

Chronic pain is a very common problem, impacting on many patients. Assessment and management can be challenging. The ABC of Pain focuses on the pain management issues often encountered in primary care. Covering major chronic pain presentations, such as musculoskeletal pain, low back pain and neuropathic pain, the ABC of Pain also provides guidance on the management of pain in pregnancy, children, older adults, drug dependency and the terminally ill. Beginning with an overview of the epidemiology of chronic pain, pain mechanisms and the assessment of pain, it then provides practical guidance on interventional procedures and methods of effective pain management. The ABC of Pain is a comprehensive, evidence-based reference. It is ideal for GPs, junior doctors, nurse specialists in primary care, palliative care specialists, and also hospital and hospice staff managing chronically and terminally ill patients.