Participants on the development programme for newly appointed matrons felt they needed to share their experiences and develop leadership and team0building skills. Personality tests and receiving individual feedback were seen as helpful. The programme is thought to be a valuable tool in integrating these new roles in the trust. The ...

The aim of the study was to evaluate the training programme in patient handling and moving skills according to the Stockholm Training Concept. The evaluation focused on work technique, musculoskeletal problems, job strain and the experience of the person being transferred. The training programme consisted of two models of learning: ...

Until recent years, the level of interaction across a profession, necessary to provide for an optimum learning environment which supports professional development, has only been significantly possible in face-to-face interaction and has therefore been place and time dependent. With the explosive development of the internet, communication barriers are breaking down ...

BACKGROUND: Assessment in postgraduate education is moving towards using a broad spectrum of practice-based assessment methods. This approach was recently introduced in first-year residency in anaesthesiology in Denmark. The new assessment programme covers: clinical skills, communication skills, organizational skills and collaborative skills, scholarly proficiencies and professionalism. Eighteen out of a ...

A community-oriented medical emergency programme for multidisciplinary healthcare professionals on the Higher Professional Diploma in International Healthcare Studies, at the United Medical Education College, London is described. The main aim of the course is to introduce students to the clinical skills of dealing with medical emergency problems and situations. Students ...

The aim of the article is to review evaluations of distance learning programmes in health information management, in order to identify the critical success factors for such programmes and discuss future directions. The emphasis is on the UK experience, based partly on reflections on the experience of one programme at ...

An action research study using a series of staged focus groups with senior house officers (SHOs) and educational supervisors (ES) was used to identify the perceptions of the strengths and challenges in the SHO training programme and to indicate areas for improvement. The basic findings were not entirely surprising, with ...

This study is part of a research programme at the University of Glamorgan aimed at reducing student nurse discontinuation. A number of methodological limitations in previous studies on attrition have been identified and are addressed in this study. A preliminary picture of attrition within this school is established and the ...

The internet permits inexpensive and rapid communication of multiple forms of information across geographical boundaries. The authors describe the development of an internet based mailing list and web site to coordinate the regionwide accident and emergency specialist registrar teaching programme. The process entailed in setting up these resources is explained. ...

The RIPPLE study is a randomized controlled trial of peer-led sex education in English secondary schools. In 1997, 27 schools were recruited and randomly allocated to a programme of peer-led sex education or to act as control schools. In experimental schools peer educators in Year 12 (aged 16/17 years) were ...

This paper is a descriptive one and provides the background and programme description of the Postgraduate Diploma in Primary Care and Family Medicine at The University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago. This time-efficient model, built on the principles of adult learning, draws on the participants' past ...

BACKGROUND: Eighteen patients with asthma-like symptoms but negative asthma tests, randomly selected, participated in a problem-based learning health education programme. The programme had a multidisciplinary approach and included exercises inspired by cognitive behavioural therapy. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to describe how the patients experienced the programme. METHODS: ...

Peer-assisted learning (PAL) is a useful learning method. PAL is learning through active help of peer group members. PAL is increasingly being used in medical education although documented experience to date is limited. A PAL programme has been instigated and run by students at a Scottish medical school. The experience ...

It is recognized that training methods differ among the various medical colleges; however, trained specialists should be competent to discharge their duties independently in any part of the country. Therefore, to maintain uniform standards of education, there is a need to harmonize postgraduate training in anatomy. It is proposed that ...

The University of the West Indies (UWI) comprises three campuses located on three different islands. Two of the Campuses, Mona in Jamaica and St Augustine in Trinidad & Tobago offer full medical programmes, i.e. both basic sciences and clinical training. At Cave Hill, where basic sciences courses are not offered, ...

OBJECTIVES: To develop and evaluate a computer program for interpretation of spirometry. METHODOLOGY: The spirometry programme was constructed in Epi Info software using a previously defined algorithm for interpretation. The programme incorporated current American Thoracic Society guidelines on interpretation of spirometry and was based on regression equations for healthy North ...

The San Francisco, California, bay area is subject to continuous seismic risk. One particular response has been the development of community-based training programmes designed to teach residents basic emergency response skills. Citizens are taught emergency medical techniques, search and rescue, fire suppression and other fundamental response skills. Current estimates in ...

BACKGROUND: The selection and the professional training for a resident in internal medicine requires a great investment of time, training effort and money. Drop-outs are therefore considered a failure of the selection procedure. To evaluate our selection model and outcome of the training programme, we determined the drop-out rate at ...

INTRODUCTION: Communication skills training (CST) in medicine, once considered a minor subject, is now ranked a core clinical skill. To assess the state of formal and informal CST at Dalhousie Medical School a needs assessment was undertaken in 1997 with the goal of using these findings to plan and implement ...

Radon remediation programmes in domestic dwellings were carried out in five areas, from three counties of England, and the total costs obtained. A single company, which abided by the Code of Practice of the Radon Council of Great Britain, carried out the remediation. The dose savings from the programmes were ...

In July 1999, the Argentinean government decided to extend the national telemedicine network from eight to 108 hospitals and medical schools. In April 2000, a telemedicine workstation was donated to every hospital, although there was no training, no guidelines and no overall objectives. We have been leading this project since ...

This paper describes the ongoing pilot project to examine the organisation and procedures of the 33 national good laboratory practice (GLP) compliance monitoring programmes in OECD to determine the extent to which they comply with the recommendations of the 1989 Council Decision-Recommendation on compliance with GLP. The project is based ...

Rural Links is a videoconference training initiative developed for those who work with at-risk young people in remote and rural regions of Western Australia. The training programme was run twice (in parallel) for two groups of participants: 17 workers from the Great Southern and South West regions of Western Australia ...

In order to improve the knowledge and skills of midwives at health facilities and those based in villages in South Kalimantan, Indonesia, three in-service training programmes were carried out during 1995-98. A scheme used for both facility and village midwives included training at training centres, peer review and continuing education. ...

OBJECTIVE: To compare the cost-effectiveness of the tuberculosis (TB) programme run by the Bangladesh Rural Advancement Committee (BRAC), which uses community health workers (CHWs), with that of the government TB programme which does not use CHWs. METHODS: TB control statistics and cost data for July 1996 - June 1997 were ...

A quality assurance (QA) and quality control (QC) programme was applied to the personal monitoring department (TLD based) of the Greek Atomic Energy Commission (GAEC). This programme was designed according to the recommendations of international bodies such as the International Organization for Standardization (ISO), the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the ...

Recent advances in genetic engineering now allow the design of programmable biological artifacts. Such programming may include usage constraints that will alter the balance of ownership and control for biotechnology products. Similar changes have been analyzed in the context of digital content management systems, and while this previous work is ...

OBJECTIVES: This study aimed to identify the key skills and knowledge required for the delivery of an ideal patient consultation in order to develop a training programme (using simulated-patients) to teach consultation skills to undergraduate pharmacy students. METHODS: Participants included all third year undergraduate Pharmacy students (MPharm, level III) at ...

The analysis of effects of a two-month developmental training cycle realised within a basketball season revealed statistically significant positive changes at the multivariate level in components of motor-functional conditioning (fitness) status of the sample of talented basketball cadets (15-16 years). The greatest correlations with discriminant function were found in variables ...

The training of oral and maxillofacial surgeons varies considerably throughout the world and is reflected in the length of programme and scope of practice. The duration of training and workload for British and American trainees have long been topics of discussion and debate. The purpose of this paper was to ...

The Education Council of the Catalonian government drew up a programme to improve the quality control of school canteens in Catalonia. The objectives of this programme were to contribute to developing healthier eating habits in school children through school canteens and to improve school canteen services considering other aspects such ...

The objectives of this study were (i) to assess the level of knowledge with respect to pain and symptom management among doctors in their first year after graduation and (ii) to measure the impact of a structured teaching programme on their level of knowledge. All 34 newly qualified junior house ...

Nurse educators face the challenge of competing pressures. Programmes must be developed that more adequately prepare students to meet the demands of a changing and complex health care system. These programmes must reflect excellence in teaching and learning and this needs to be achieved within the constraints of economic rationalism. ...

For over 20 years the occupational therapy programmes offered by McMaster University and Mohawk College, Hamilton, Ontario have used small-group, problem-based learning tutorials as a major component of their curriculum. These programmes were among the first occupational therapy programmes in the world to use a problem-based tutorial format. The inclusion ...

In New Zealand opioid users obtain their drugs by extraction from codeine-based products, prescribed medication and poppies (in season) as geographical isolation and efficient border protection mean that street heroin is expensive and irregularly available. Hospital run methadone programmes have a virtual monopoly on the provision of opioid substitution programmes ...

SETTING: This innovative educational programme was developed in the South African context for general practitioners (GPs). AIM: This short report describes the process of designing an Internet-based distance education programme Mental Disorders in Primary Care. LEARNING METHODS: The article discusses relevant educational principles and then describes four stages in the ...

BACKGROUND: The Russian-American Partners for Prevention was an adaptation and evaluation of the Slick Tracy Home Team Program which was developed in Minnesota in order to delay the onset of drinking. The Slick Tracy Home Team Program was the first intervention of Project Northland, a large 3 year community trial ...

OBJECTIVE: to explore the feelings and views of student midwives of their education as they progressed through their two-year programme in Ireland, with the intention of interpreting and understanding the working and learning world of the participants so that future students might be assisted to improve their educational experiences. DESIGN: ...

OBJECTIVES: To determine respondents reported levels of exposure to audit during their medical career and as a general practice non-principal. To assess and identify audit education and training needs. DESIGN: Postal questionnaire survey. SETTING: The West of Scotland. SUBJECTS: Two hundred GP non-principals. RESULTS: A response rate of 79% was ...

There is a wide consensus that an external review mechanism, both in the form of a peer review, accreditation and certification according to the ISO 9000 series, is more than its standards. The survey process, the role of inspectors and standard interpretation contribute to the essence of the programme itself. ...

This paper presents a review of the ultrasonically assisted extraction of bioactive principles from herbs. Much of the work was carried out under European community grants under the COPERNICUS programme and in a COST D10 network. Some aspects of classical and non-conventional extraction procedures are also presented and briefly discussed.

BACKGROUND: A national cervical screening programme is being established in Ireland and there is little information on the level of resources required. AIMS: To obtain information on attitudes of Irish general practitioners (GPs) and on the resources needed by them in relation to participation in the programme. METHODS: An anonymous ...

The Calman reforms were introduced to Otorhinolaryngology in July 1996 and we are half-way through its first cycle. Further changes may become necessary with expansion of our specialty and because of the need to incorporate super-specialization into current training programmes. We felt that it was an appropriate to evaluate these ...

Recently, a growing interest in problems at school of peer aggression and victimization was observed. As a result, intervention strategies appropriate for this kind of problem were required. The Norwegian anti-bullying intervention that was developed and evaluated by Olweus (1992) in the region of Bergen was considered to be a ...

This report describes the evaluation of a curriculum-integrated programme designed to help students develop an awareness of the nursing literature, the skills to locate and retrieve it, and skills required in its evaluation; in other words'information literacy'. Positive changes in student performance on objective measures of information-literacy skills were revealed ...

The economic implications of regulations governing radon gas level identification and remediation in buildings are poorly understood, and attempts to address these issues have been criticised for lack of comparability. It is imperative therefore that a general model for the economic evaluation of radon remediation programmes is adopted to ensure ...

In order to share the issues involved in setting up a communication skills training programme in a medical school, the development of such a programme at the Skillslab of Maastricht Medical School, the Netherlands, is described and the problems encountered are addressed. A multidisciplinary working group developed teaching goals for ...

BACKGROUND: Inpatient teaching no longer reflects the full spectrum of paediatric practice and community-based programmes with clearly defined aims and evaluation of learning are becoming increasingly important. Competition for community resources poses threats to the delivery of effective community child health learning programmes by individual medical schools. OBJECTIVES: To develop ...

AIM: To evaluate the effectiveness of a leadership development seminar introduced into the Resuscitation Council (UK) Advanced Life Support (ALS) Provider course. METHODS: Observational assessments of leadership performance during cardiac arrest scenarios before and after a leadership seminar. RESULTS: The leadership training programme significantly improved candidates leadership performance in the ...

Participation in proficiency testing schemes (PT-schemes) is an important way to prove and to improve the skills of analytical chemical students. It gives valuable information on the professional capabilities of the students and is thus an important step in the training of laboratory engineers and technicians. In the programme described ...