On Fri, 22 Feb 2013 12:14:52 -0500, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote:
>I have experimented with this number---Note that it includes >professional development, e.g., journal reading, web browsing, meeting >attendance and the like, things that are not immediately relevant to >the task at hand ---and I do not think 5% is enough. > >It is low by the standards of other professions. Medical doctors, for >example, devote as much as 25% of their time to this sort of thing. But do they do it during the day (taking time away from patients), or do they do it nights and weekends? Knowing how many hours my previous primary care provider worked in the office, and how much administrative work he did beyond that, I was never sure how he found the time even to read the journals let alone do any formal training. -- Walt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
