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Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/21/2007 - 15:47.

When physicians get sick--What then?
When overworked physicians get sick, the performance of the health-care system itself can suffer. In the current issue of The Lancet, Dr. Jean Wallace and colleagues report that physician wellness benefits not only the individual physician, but is vital to the delivery of high-quality health-care.
Their research reviews the work stresses faced by physicians, the barriers to attending to their wellness, and the consequences of unwell physicians to the individual and to health-care systems. The authors propose a significant paradigm shift by suggesting that physician wellness is also an important and necessary indicator of health care system quality, as currently most health-care organizations and systems rely on patient-based outcomes to assess their performance. The research has attracted a significant coverage in the press, and is discussed in The Lancet's November 14th Editorial. The report, Physician Wellness: a missing quality indicator, can be accessed here. Also The Lancet has provided a podcast of Dr. Wallace's findings and recommendations.

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Submitted by admin on Wed, 11/21/2007 - 15:56.

Congratulations to Dr. Robert Stebbins on the publication of Leisure and Consumption:Common Ground/Separate Worlds (Palgrave: New York and London 2009).

Congratulations to Dr. Nicholas Jones (Ph.D. 2006) whose book The Courts of Genocide: Politics and the Rule of Law in Rwanda and Arusha, was published this year by Routledge-Cavendish in London. The book was based on Nick's doctoral research. The book was nominated for the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences 2010 book of the year award.

Congratulations to Rebecca Godderis (Ph.D. 2009) who has been appointed Assistant Professor in Health Studies at Sir Wilfrid Laurier University in Brantford. Rebecca convocates this fall.

Congratulations to Dr. Amal Madibbo, who has received a SSHRC Standard Research Grant to undertake the project "Race, Ethnicity, Immigration and Identity in the Sudan" from 2009-2011.

Congratulations to Dr. John Manzo, whose book (with Max Travers), Law in Action: Ethnomethodological and Conversation-analytic Approaches to Law has been translated into Japanese by Shinyosha Publishing Ltd.

Congratulations to Dr. Harry Hiller on the publication of his new book, Second Promised Land: Migration to Alberta and the Transformation of Canadian Society (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2009).

Congratulations to Drs. Karen Robson (York University, Canada) and David Pevalin (University of Essex, UK), graduates of our Sociology M.A. program, have just published The Stata Survival Manual (Open University Press, 2009).

Sociology Majors Heads-up! Gary Barron BA BSc (2008) has created a resource page for undergraduate sociology majors to assist them in getting critically involved in social research.