Continuing professional development (CPD) courses seek to inform, educate and develop practitioners' patterns of prescribing in line with the evidence base. When devising such courses it would be useful for organisers to have some idea of what current practice is and the decision-making process as this would inform the development ...

A standardized continuing education course was developed to determine if behavior in dental practices could be modified to improve office participation in oral and pharyngeal cancer control through early detection and tobacco-use cessation.

Continuing education for chaplains, pastoral counselors and clinical pastoral educators is important for maintaining and advancing professional competency. Pastoral professionals who visited the Spiritual Care Collaborative (SCC) website to register for a conference were asked to complete a questionnaire on continuing education. Results of the survey show that continuing education, ...

Economic and political trends underscore the importance of engaged scholarship as evidence that colleges and universities are serving their constituencies. Set in a background of debate about pure versus applied social science this article describes a planned approach to continuing gerontological education grounded firmly in the principles of the scholarship ...

BACKGROUND: At the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Medicine (USA) "commitment to improving quality and safety in healthcare" is one of eight key characteristics set as goals for our graduates. As educators, commitment to continuous improvement in the educational experience has been modelled through improvement of the Medical Student Performance ...

OBJECTIVE: To assess changes in knowledge, attitudes, and intentions among childcare workers before and after an asthma-management-education session. METHODS: Between May and August 2004 five asthma-education sessions were provided for childcare workers from Sonoma County, California. A total of 71 childcare workers came to the sessions. Before and after each ...

Dentistry can be a very difficult profession in many ways, whether it's running a business in private practice, dealing with administrative and political aspirations in a school, or dealing with employees and the general public. Deciding on a type of continuing dental education can be a stressful experience as well. ...

Ever-increasing needs and demands by dentists and all other members of the dental team for education and training at all levels - undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing - are straining the resources of existing providers of such education. At the same time, there are ever-increasing opportunities to develop online delivery and ...

This third article in the series looks at the areas of education, continuing professional development and the forthcoming introduction of revalidation, which form a 'continuum of quality assurance' through a dentist's professional life and ensure that standards of dentistry remain high. The article introduces some of the key members of ...

The Internet offers a great opportunity to deliver dental education in new ways. However, to achieve the maximum benefit from this medium, it is necessary to understand its strengths and weaknesses and, above all, not to lose sight of the key principle that in education it is the message and ...

The three objectives of this study were 1) to evaluate the frequency of access to instruments of continuing education by dental practitioners belonging to the Order of Dental Practitioners of the Province of Prato, Italy; 2) to ascertain their understanding and use of evidence-based medicine; and 3) to identify their ...

CONTEXT: A learning portfolio was developed to support the development of trainee doctors piloting Foundation Programme prototypes across the Northern Deanery in 2004 and 2005. Trainee doctors and their educational supervisors were surveyed about their experiences of using the portfolio in the clinical workplace. METHODS: The evaluation consisted of semi-structured ...

Online courses are an integral part of nursing education programs.The responsibility for developing and teaching asynchronous online courses can be challenging, especially for neophyte educators. Two experienced educators discuss strategies for developing and enhancing selected aspects of asynchronous online courses. Practical, evidence-based aspects of designing, conducting, and evaluating web-based courses ...

Particles in a dental office can be generated by a number of instruments, such as air-turbine handpieces, low-speed handpieces, ultrasonic scalers, bicarbonate polishers, polishing cups, as well as drilling and air sprays inside the oral cavity. This study examined the generation of particles during dental drilling and measured particle size, ...

Continuing dental education is now a professional and ethical obligation. The practising dentist has the responsibility to be a continuous learner by participating in educational programmes. This requirement for a career long education system provides awareness to the public that the dental profession is dedicated to the maintenance of high ...

BACKGROUND: Workforce development is acritical factor allowing delivery on government health priorities. Against a backdrop of increasingdemand for dental therapists being significantly higher than the levels of recruitment, it is widely acknowledged that rural and remote areas (having greater recruitment and retention issues) will face significant shortfall in therapist numbers ...

In 2003, the Minnesota Dental Practice Act was modified to allow dental hygienists and assistants to place amalgam, composite, glass ionomer, and stainless steel crowns. The concept of utilizing allied professionals to perform expanded functions has been suggested as a way to increase access to care and productivity. A continuing ...

Background/AIMS: Continuing education is important to laboratory technologists. It helps them keep pace with the advances in medicine and pathology and thus to provide quality service. A survey was conducted to assess the attitudes of pathology laboratory technologists towards different educational activities. METHODS: Relevant continuing education activities include lectures, case ...

Compiegne's University of Technology is one of the main contributors in clinical engineering education in France. Knowledge and skills have been acquired since 1974 through professional specialization courses and new programs such as master's degrees, engineering and PhD degrees, and continuing education courses for technicians. To face current hospitals needs, ...

In continuing The Journal of Perinatal Education's mission to promote normal birth, this issue's "Celebrate Birth!" column features mother and daughter, Nancy Ferguson and Shelley Beebee, who share two complementary perspectives of the magic and mystery surrounding the home birth of Eloen, Nancy's granddaughter and Shelley's daughter.

A psychoanalyst faces the extraordinary demand of becoming instrumental in the psychoanalytic process. In the candidate's attempt to rise to that expectation, the first step is the training analysis. As the center-piece of psychoanalytic education, it is no ordinary analysis and bears special burdens intrinsic to its multiple functions and ...

AIMS: To identify the subjects of interest and to examine the modes as well as means of study for continuing professional dental education amongst general dental practitioners who attended the 26th Asia Pacific Dental Congress, 28 May-1 June 2004, Hong Kong. METHODS: A total of 381 general dental practitioners as ...

Despite the fact that oral cancer is usually diagnosed with the naked eye, dental radiology can play a significant role in the process of diagnosis, treatment planning, assessment of response to treatment, and prognosis. This paper will discuss a prototype tele-educational system to support dental radiology training programs, which will ...

In contrast to many industrialized countries, the growth of thoracic surgery in China was much more difficult over the first 5 decades under the ever-changing political and harsh socioeconomic conditions. As a matter of fact, the struggle to establish this specialty in a developing country with more than one fifth ...

The market for dental technology is expected to continue its growth, but to change in direction toward products based on biology. As the dental industry considers potential new technologies, it must consider the following components in the development process: patent protection of concepts, the clinical relevance of innovations, an overall ...

Tobacco use prevention (TUC) guidelines are mostly designed for undergraduate education. Most practising dental professionals have not been trained in TUC and so current and future guidelines need to be adapted for continuing education. It is important to motivate dental professionals to be involved in TUC. 'The 3 Ts' is ...

In the second paper of this two part series on Key Elements of Interprofessional Education (IPE), we highlight factors for success in IPE based on a systematic literature review conducted for Health Canada in its "Interprofessional Education for Patient Centred Practice" (IECPCP) initiative in Canada (Oandasan et al., 2004). The ...

Past changes in prosthodontic education have been influenced by educators" understanding of learning, the physical plants in which they teach and the evolution of the profession (both clinically and politically). A 1968 survey illustrates an emphasis on materials and techniques, and the literature of the day respected "expert" opinion. Although ...

CONTEXT: The American Board of Medical Specialties Maintenance of Certification (MOC) process will become effective in 2006. The College of American Pathologists (CAP) Education Committee defined pathology-specific competencies within MOC categories and used data from a survey of pathologists to create education courses targeted to each MOC category. OBJECTIVE: To ...

Many dentists would like to increase the number of esthetic and elective procedures they perform. What may be holding them back is the ability to communicate with, educate and motivate patients in the area of esthetic and elective dentistry. While implants, esthetic dentistry or elective dentistry is not for every ...

The number of vacant budgeted full-time faculty positions has changed little over the last three years, standing in 2002-03 at 280. The number of part-time vacancies, though, has continued to decline to twenty-seven. The average number of vacancies per school was 5.7, down from 6.4 of the past several years. ...

The roles and responsibilities of electroneurodiagnostic (END) technologists have changed significantly. The variety and complexity of procedures defined within the Scope of Practice for END Technology require that technologists be true professionals. External factors like state licensure, reimbursement issues, and the absorption of END procedures into the scope of practice ...

It is argued that dental organizations need ethics committees to address growing concerns among the public regarding ethical conduct. Such committees could provide education, help formulate policy and guidelines, and develop case review and consultation, as well as create useful networks. The results of a survey of Canadian faculties of ...

Videoconferencing to deliver asthma health education to patients or their parents has not been widely used in the USA. We used two 90 min interactive videoconferences to deliver an asthma education programme to a convenience sample of mainly Latino immigrant parents in the Bronx, New York. In these sessions short ...

This study analyzed factors that influence the decision to attend or not attend tele-education broadcasts via a telemedicine network for continuing education (CE) credits. A questionnaire was developed and sent to all participating sites on our telemedicine network that have attended CE broadcasts. The majority of respondents attend specific types ...

We compare the incidence of 25 nonmetric dental traits of the people of the Neolithic Dawenkou culture (6300-4500 BP) sites in Shandong Province, North China with those of other East Asian populations. The Dawenkou teeth had an overwhelmingly greater resemblance to the Sinodont pattern typical of Northeast Asia than to ...

RB, a patient with probable Alzheimer's disease, makes continuous perseverations of single letters when writing (e.g. fruit-->fruuit), particularly on high frequency letters. An analysis of her errors reveals that her perseverations do not reflect letter substitutions or transpositions, nor do they suggest difficulty with geminates. No continuous perseverations were found ...

This article asks and answers a series of questions about Web-based continuing education for dentists. A summary of these answers are: (1) all indicators point to a substantive increase in the number and types of continuing education courses in the next five years; (2) the main reasons to take an ...

The importance of evidence in teaching, and to support clinical decisions, is well established in health care, including dentistry. Defending clinical decisions, whether it be with a patient, with a colleague, or at law, increasingly requires reliable data or evidence to support either the treatment plan provided or the treatment ...

CONTEXT: Vaccine-preventable diseases among adults are major contributing causes of morbidity and mortality in the United States. However, adult immunizations continue to be underutilized in both urban and rural areas. PURPOSE: To evaluate the effectiveness of a community-wide education campaign and mailed reminders promoting pneumococcal immunizations to rural Medicare beneficiaries. ...

Conventional dermatology teaching favours a didactic, factual approach, rather than a problem-solving approach. A Web-based education system that uses a problem-solving approach offers many advantages. Several international Websites now provide continuing education to specialist dermatologists. These are all 'discretionary' Websites, that is, they are visited by choice; 'obligatory' educational Websites ...

This continuing education course is designed for general dentists, dental hygienists, dental assistants, and office managers. This continuing education course will provide general information pertaining to the reporting of dental services to medical third parties. An office protocol outlining the steps necessary to file medical insurance claims for dental treatment ...

Dental practice and education are becoming more globalized. Greater practitioner and patient mobility, the free flow of information, increasingly global standards of care and new legal and economic frameworks (such as European Union [EU] legislation) are forcing a review of dental licensure, specialization and continuing education systems. The objective of ...

OBJECTIVE: The American College of Nurse-Midwives implemented a 4-year Domestic Violence Education Project (DVEP) with the goal of educating all midwives in the USA to respond appropriately to abuse experienced by the women they serve. METHOD: A four-pronged set of objectives was used that included policy, basic preservice education, continuing ...

STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS: Specification 25 of the American Dental Association (ADA) states that final setting expansion measurements of improved dental stone are made 2 hours after mixing. In a limited pilot study on selected type IV and V dental stones, measurements showed delayed linear expansion or early contraction continuing up ...

With this issue, NWD begins a look into the varied and versatile dental study clubs that are a part of the continuing education landscape in Minnesota. To the "question of the month" in a recent issue of JADA, 86% of respondents said they had participated in at least one such ...

In order to provide basic data for evaluation of malaria control measures, a study on the knowledge and behavior of people regarding prevention of malaria was carried out in 8 malaria endemic villages in Khammouane Province of Lao PDR from 1999 to 2000. The total valid questionnaire respondents were 932, ...

OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the effect of an educational campaign for reducing the breeding places of Aedes aegypti, the principal vector of dengue; and to compare its effects with the ones obtained by spraying of malathion at ultralow volume. DESIGN: Randomised community trial. SETTING: Colima city, in the State of Colima, ...

Experiments, in the sense of novel actions taken with only a probable chance of success, are common in dental practice. Use of new materials or techniques learned in continuing education courses are examples. The grounds for ethically defensible experiments include (a) undertaken for the patient's sake, (b) within the standard ...

Continuous quality improvement (CQI) can be envisaged as a circular process of goal-setting, followed by external and internal evaluations resulting in improvements that can serve as goals for a next cycle. The need for CQI is apparent, because of public accountability, maintaining European standards and the improvement of dental education. ...