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Perhaps better as its own group, please give your thoughts. Here's what I'm thinking (and maybe it exists here?)A place for1. Book/video reviews and commentary2. More to the point, a place for…Continue
Started by Deb Evans. Last reply by Bert Davich Jan 16, 2011.
Hi, You've had time to print and review. What changes are needed? This is the last draft, before the presentation! The effort by MTBOK, funded through the Massage Therapy Foundation, to keep everyone…Continue
Started by Mike Hinkle. Last reply by Nancy Toner Weinberger Jun 13, 2010.
I apologize for sending a group email, I ment to post as a discussion, so here it is...My name is Tina and I will be starting massage therapy school in Jan. I have been trying to get a little bit…Continue
Started by Tina Mundy. Last reply by Carl W. Brown Nov 8, 2009.
I think that it might make sense to look at the problem from a different approach. One useful technique is to step up a “strawman” as a concrete example to critique.To do this I figured that we start…Continue
Started by Carl W. Brown. Last reply by Carl W. Brown Nov 7, 2009.
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The term ‘standard’ means different things to the different people, and often is used interchangeably with ‘objectives’, ‘outcomes’ and ‘goals’. Sometimes the word is used as a synonym for doing better in some nonspecific way such as “we should improve our standards”, or "the standards are too low". The dictionary definition of ‘standard’ refers to “something set up and established by authority, custom or general consent as a model, example or rule for the measure of quantity, weight, extent, value, or quality”. ‘Standard’ is also defined as a “criterion, gauge, yardstick, and touchstone” by which judgments or decisions may be made. Thus, the word ‘standard’ refers simultaneously to both ‘model and example’ and ‘criterion or yardstick’ for determining how well one’s performance approximates the designed model. Thus, a standard is both a goal (what should be done) and a measure of progress toward that goal (how well it was done). Therefore to be meaningful, a standard should offer a realistic prospect of evaluation to measure whether anyone actually meets it. Without that, it has no practical value.
Brad loved orthopedic surgery in medical school. He had always been a sports fanatic, and the lure of sports medicine as a career enticed him to endure medical school (which was tedious and difficult for him). He is now an orthopedic resident. Sadly, he has been totally incompetent, possibly hazardous, in the operating room. No one can fathom it; he was such a motivated medical student. It turns out that this bright guy lacks the spatial perception and nonverbal problem-solving skill (a form of mechanical aptitude) needed to function as a skilled orthopedic surgeon. He is struggling with an all too common insidious plight, namely the chaotic career of a person whose interests don't coincide with the wiring of his particular kind of mind. Brad is in pursuit of what he's unlikely to succeed at. He's unaware of this risky discrepancy. He has found no channel for his many assets. The chief of orthopedic surgery has recommended that he leave the department because of "persistent incompetence as a clinician."
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