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Record W2141870519 · doi:10.7196/samj.8492

Professional competence and professional misconduct in South Africa

2014· editorial· en· W2141870519 on OpenAlexaff
Solly Benatar

Bibliographic record

VenueSouth African Medical Journal · 2014
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicInnovations in Medical Education
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Toronto
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMedicineMisconductCompetence (human resources)AccountabilityDiligenceLicensureCredentialingMedical educationNursingPublic relationsLawManagement

Abstract

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High-profile attention has recently been given to the problem of surgical competence of a few cardiothoracic surgeons and to abuse of limited private practice by some full-time state-employed doctors. These issues raise questions about the adequacy of postgraduate training facilities, the rigor with which new specialists are evaluated before being allowed to enter practice, and the need for accountability on the part of those who take time off from full-time public service to work privately. In this editorial attention is drawn to the need for greater diligence and vigilance in overseeing and rectifying these aspects of professionalism.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.012
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.054
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesResearch integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Editorial · Consensus signal: Editorial
Teacher disagreement score0.975
Threshold uncertainty score0.064

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0120.054
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0020.002
Bibliometrics0.0030.002
Science and technology studies0.0050.006
Scholarly communication0.0090.005
Open science0.0030.003
Research integrity0.0250.018
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0040.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.016
GPT teacher head0.326
Teacher spread0.310 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreEditorial

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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Citations6
Published2014
Admission routes1
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