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D McHugh. 1994. Reaccreditation.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/8790660/
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The Dutch Association for Addiction Medicine and the umbrella organisation GGZ Nederland (sector organisation for mental health and addiction care) have compiled a report entitled 'Strengthening medical care in the addiction care sector'. The report argues why medical care needs to be strengthened and provides guidance as to how the present shortcomings in quality and quantity can be dealt with. Addiction is now considered to be a medical condition with patients instead of clients. This means that the care, including the financial aspects, needs to be organised in the same way as all other forms of regular health care. Furthermore, the training in addiction medicine needs to be given a clearer status in the form of departments, professorships, training institutes and certification. Within the context of this report the responsibility of addiction centres needs to be emphasised. Vacancies in the many forms of social work could be exchanged for well-trained nurses and physicians, without the need for extra financial assistance.
PURPOSE: To determine whether radiation therapy department administrators prefer to hire graduates with certain types of educational preparation. The study was undertaken by the American Registry of Radiologic Technologists as part of a larger project to determine educational requirements for radiation therapists. METHODS AND MATERIALS: Forty-one department administrators evaluated applications from a pool of 984 hypothetical applicants for the position of radiation therapist. Applications were created by systematically varying eight characteristics such as years of experience, quality of educational program, and ratings from prior references. Type of educational program (baccalaureate degree, associate's degree, or hospital certificate) was of particular interest in this study. Each administrator evaluated 24 applications and assigned a rating ranging from 1 to 5 to indicate the extent to which he or she desired to interview each applicant. All ratings and applicant characteristics were coded and subjected to regression-type analyses to determine the relative importance of each applicant characteristic to administrators' decision-making policies. RESULTS: Information obtained from applicant references had the greatest impact on administrators' evaluations of applicant quality. Specifically, reference ratings of cooperation and technical skills were the two most important characteristics, followed closely by reference ratings of interpersonal skills and dependability. Quality of educational program had some influence, as did years of experience. Type of educational program had virtually no impact on interview decisions for a vast majority of the administrators. CONCLUSIONS: When making hiring decisions about hypothetical applicants, department administrators place most emphasis on evidence relating to past performance and give almost no weight to type of educational preparation. The extent to which these results generalize to actual applicants is addressed in the article.