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Increase in caesarean section rates among low‐risk women in Queensland, 1990–2004
Author(s) -
Johnston Trisha C,
Coory Michael D
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2006.tb00623.x
Subject(s) - unit (ring theory) , section (typography) , citation , epidemiology , library science , medicine , psychology , computer science , mathematics education , operating system
The recent Royal College of Physicians (RCP) report examining professionalism, identified leadership as an essential prerequisite for our profession in the new millennium. Leadership was also featured in the latest RACP News (magazine of the Royal Australasian College of Physicians), which highlighted leaders among the College’s Fellows: a state governor, two vice-chancellors of leading universities, 10 deans of medical schools, and the last three chief medical officers of the Australian Government. This is an impressive line-up, but is reaching the pinnacles of the establishment, academia or the bureaucracy synonymous with leadership?