John Howie

Some subsemigroups of infinite full transformation semigroups

As in an earlier paper by the author, three cardinal numbers, the shift , the defect and the collapse , are associated with each element of the full transformation semigroup ℑ(X) , where X is an infinite set. It is shown that the elements of finite shift and non-zero defect form a subsemigroup F of ℑ(X) . Moreover, if E(F) denotes the set of idempotents in F then 〈E(F)〉 = F , but (E(F)) n ⊂F for every finite n . For each infinite cardinal m not exceeding ∣X∣ the set Q m of balanced elements of weight m, i.e. those with shift, defect and collapse all equal to m, forms a subsemigroup of ℑ(X) . Moreover, (E(Q m )) 4 =Q m ,(E(Q m )) 3 ⊂Q m .

The state of general practice—not all for the better

The 60th anniversary of the NHS is an opportunity to celebrate its many achievements—both in hospitals, in the treatment of life threatening and seriously disabling disorders, and in general practice, in the development of an effective and efficient primary care service. Together with many others we have contributed to the renaissance of general practice in the United Kingdom after the 1966 charter, through our involvement in the establishment of general practice as a research based discipline in universities with properly structured postgraduate training. However, we wish to express a number of worries we have about potential harm to the care of patients and to medical education that, we think, is an unintended consequence of recent reforms. Our starting point is a statement of what we think needs to be safeguarded: the distinguishing feature of UK general practice before the 1990 contract was the long term relationship between a patient (and often a family) and an individually named doctor, whose clinical training was grounded in the diagnosis and treatment of illness …

Academic General Practice in the UK Medical Schools, 1948-2000: A Short History

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John Sanford Berkeley.

John Sanford Berkeley spent 13 years in general practice in Fort William before joining the leprosy mission in south India. He learnt hand surgery and developed a leprosy service in Bhutan. After public health training, he became …

The University of Dundee

AGENDA Matters on which discussion is expected are included in Part A of the Agenda. Part B comprises other matters for report/approval. At the beginning of the meeting the Convener will give members the opportunity to identify items in Part B on which they would wish to comment or ask questions. Part A 1. Minutes PAPER A To approve the minutes of the meeting of 17th September 2012. 2. Matters Arising 1. Higher Education Achievement Report (HEAR) 2. Policy on Wednesday Afternoon Teaching and Sport 3. Policy and Guidelines on the Recording of Lectures 4. Wider Access/Retention Working Group 5. Articulation Working Group 3. SFC Outcome Agreement: College Articulation and Partnerships To receive a verbal report from the Convener on the SFC Outcome Agreement in relation to articulation and partnerships between higher and further education.

Professor Hamish Barber MD FRCGP FRCP(Glas) FHKCGP.

Hamish Barber, the first professor of general practice at the University of Glasgow, died aged 74 on 26 August 2007, after a long illness. He was born in Dunfermline, and christened James Hill Barber after his maternal grandfather, a GP in Renfrew. He qualified in medicine at Edinburgh University in 1957. After 5 years in the RAF, he obtained an assistant post in general practice in Callendar (where the BBC series ‘Dr Finlays Casebook’ was filmed). This could have been a job for life, but at this stage he discovered the thrill of carrying out original research, via an investigation of urinary tract infection, for which he was awarded the degree of MD. This was a very unusual achievement for a young GP, and it was no surprise in 1966 when he became the first GP to be appointed to the Livingston Project — an experiment in which GPs divided their time between a hospital specialty in which they had special expertise, (in Hamishs case, general medicine), and general …