Adapting continuing medical education for post-conflict areas: assessment in Nagorno Karabagh - a qualitative study

Adapting continuing medical education for post-conflict areas: assessment in Nagorno Karabagh - a qualitative study

BACKGROUND One of the major challenges in the current century is the increasing number of post-conflict states where infrastructures are debilitated. The dysfunctional health care systems in post-conflict settings are putting the lives of the populations in these zones at increased risk. One of the approaches to improve such situations is to strengthen human resources by organizing training pro...

Pamphlet as a tool for continuing medical education: performance assessment in a randomized controlled interventional study

  Background: Pamphlet is a tool used for distance continuous professional development programs. In this study, we assessed the impact of an educational pamphlet on improving prescription writing errors in general physicians’ performance.   Methods : In this randomized controlled interventional study, we prepared a training pamphlet according to the most prevalent prescription writing problems....

Identifying priority healthcare trainings in frozen conflict situations: The case of Nagorno Karabagh

INTRODUCTION Health care in post-war situations, where the system's human and fixed capital are depleted, is challenging. The addition of a frozen conflict situation, where international recognition of boundaries and authorities are lacking, introduces further complexities. CASE DESCRIPTION Nagorno Karabagh (NK) is an ethnically Armenian territory locked within post-Soviet Azerbaijan and one ...

pamphlet as a tool for continuing medical education: performance assessment in a randomized controlled interventional study

background: pamphlet is a tool used for distance continuous professional development programs. in this study, we assessed the impact of an educational pamphlet on improving prescription writing errors in general physicians’ performance.   methods : in this randomized controlled interventional study, we prepared a training pamphlet according to the most prevalent prescription writing problems. w...

The need for needs assessment in continuing medical education.