where would I research to obtain answers about the definition,importance of medical proficiency testing?
596763
no where at all.\n\nNone, no proven studies of any merit whatsoever.\n\nBasically politics.  Us doctors are far too important to be told if we are proficient or not... is the basic stand still.\n\nAll studies are biased, at best, and frank deception at worst.\n\nReally a joke, our dept does a ton of this type of "research" and it is without merit.
816255
the tests are reliable.  As for validity, that is another matter open for interpretation.  More info is needed to determine the "purpose" of the testing, who is doing it, who is being tested and what are the consequences.
636421
I would say go to google. They will bring a large source of info. Google is the best.
828089
Here is a helpful link. Good luck!!\n\nhttp://www.usimmigrationsupport.org/citizenship_test.html
349513
http://www.altavista.com/web/results?itag=ody&q=procedures+requiring+sterile+technique&kgs=1&kls=0
1070369
are you wanting to study something so you can take a competency test? I'm a HHA myself, was trained on the job and do an inservice every month to stay certified.\n\nOne of the companies I worked with, a major hospital, used WebMD for their inservice stuff.\nSo you could probably start there.\n\nIf you can't find what you want on here, email me and I can get ahold of the paper inservices we have at my job that cover a variety of topics and I can send them to you thru snail mail.\n\nhttp://www.medmutual.com/global/webmd/WebMDList.aspx?WebMDid=Senior
462435
In my experience, good, reliable, unbiased, and non-profit-driven information on medical and medicine can be found from the following resources;\n- good universities and colleges, such as Harvard, University of California, John Hopkins, Maryland, Michigan, Pennsylvania, or Virginia websites. \n- The Consumer Reports ('http://www.consumerreports.org')website and magazine\n- Dr. Gary Null's website and radio program ('http://www.garynull.com')\n- The Pacifica Organization ('http://www.Pacifica.org')\nAnd finally, avoid by all means all money-driven information.\nGood Luck!
522137
His certificates of authenticity should be on the wall in his office.  Ask questions111  Ask his staff and ask other patients in his office.  You could also try the American Medical Association.
746120
Can you be more specific?  Testing for what?
482170
pubmed is a useful resource to find clinical articles from scientific and medical journals\nhttp://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi\n\nanother resource might be Biology online\nhttp://www.biology-online.org/
98945
I linked a website that has translations for doctors to use in exams.  Also found a lot of courses for doctors to learn Spanish for treating patients, if that applies.
256597
Check out http://www.pubmed.gov for articles that will explain more fully than anyone can on here.
117941
Go to the Quest Diagnostics site, and type in Bun.\nhttp://www.questdiagnostics.com/kbase/topic/medtest/hw4322/results.htm
201561
Try the link in the source. I think that is good enough for  a preliminary search!
449504
this is a good sight, maybe not totally trustworthy but with lots of reference links. good luck
1148601
Hello...you didn't include information about where you are located so I can't include any information about specific places to go but I can give you some very good generic info.  Go to your nearest university medical library.  Almost all of them have one and inside you will find a journal section, usually online, that can point you towards excellent articles and papers on the subject.
906162
http://www.drh.org.uk/\n\nI found a link to a site called the Digital Resources in Humanities and Arts...  Maybe it means "Digital Resources in Health".\n\nI've seen pamphlets around that are from a "digital resource", i.e., a reference source that is not in a print or photographic format.