Team building: a leadership strategy.

This paper will present the importance of teamwork, as well as those behavioral science principles relative to team-building in an organization. Characteristics of an effective work team and some important dimensions of supervisory leadership including inputs on how members of a task group can contribute to team-building will be described. Some guidelines for supervisors and employees in connection with teamwork will be discussed. Human beings of every age are finding their time consumed by the demands of organizations to which they "belong" and still are badgered to join other groups during a lifetime. In the International College of Dentists, Philippine Section, where we pride ourselves to be a part of, membership is defined. We are supposed to be endowed with group consciousness, a sense of purpose, an interaction among ourselves, and interdependence in the satisfaction of our needs in a unitary manner. In essence, we are linked by some common, identifiable characteristics bound by the element of teamwork for the achievement of a common desirable goal. A leadership style that emphasizes team-building, therefore ensures not only that a job gets done, but it is done efficiently, effectively and harmoniously.

Community dentistry: rationale.

The present curricula in dentistry are biased in favor of cure and technical capability ... individualism rather than promotive, preventive and community orientation. The team "approach" and "total patient care" concepts must be given emphasis in these curricula. Dentistry, being a profession, should accentuate service, rather than materialism and profit. The Philippine situation demands than adoption of a "New Horizon in Health" which emphasized positive health as part of human development. The educational system, organized dentistry, the licensing board, the legislators, policy makers, oral health providers and research formulators will have important roles to perform in the successful implementation of this "new horizon in health" concept. "Primary Health Care" is another strategy adopted to realize the global goal of "Health for all by Year 2000". This is a positive approach for both individual and community oral health intervention programs.

Intoxicación por callampas venenosas en la IX región: rol de amanita gemmata / Intoxication by poisoning mushroom in the IX region: role of amanita gemmata

We report 4 episodes of mushroom poisoning that ocurred before 1986 and 1990 in the province of Malleco. 25 of 36 individuals who ingested the mushroom became ill; they had an acute gastroenteritis that was followed in 7 by an acute hepatitis and in 1 by a massive upper gastrointestinal bleeding. Three subjects with fulminant hepatic failure and the subject with the massive bleeding died. Amanita gemmata (strain described as toxic in Chile since 1967) was found in 2 episodes and Amanita sp in 1. The clinical picture is similar to that described for Amanita phaloides. The treatment is symptomatic but penicillin and silymarin may have an antitoxic action. The importance of warning the population about the existence of toxic mushrooms in Chile is emphasized