Continuing Educational Liaison Program

Networks and Learning: MIT Industrial Liaison Program

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Industrial Liaison Program entitled “Networks and Learning.” The topic was neural networks, their power, potential, and promise. A dozen distinguished professors and researchers presented informative and entertaining talks to an audience of technically minded business executives and industrial researchers who subscribe to MIT’s popular series of sympo...

Continuing Medical Education Faculty Program Directors

Continuing education in the family health strategy: rethinking educational groups.

OBJECTIVE to analyze the experience of the family health team in resignifying the way to develop educational groups. METHOD groups of discussion, with twenty-six biweekly group meetings conducted, with an average of fifteen professionals from the family health team, during the year 2009. The empirical material consisted of the transcription of the groups, on which thematic analysis was perfor...

Educational program for premature labor.

In spite of advances in prenatal care, the rate of prematurity has remained relatively constant at 7 percent. Prematurity accounts for 75 percent of perinatal mortality. I The benefit of tocolytic treatment is diminished, because 70 percent to 80 percent of patients in preterm labor do not seek help until membranes have ruptured or cervical dilation is too advanced for treatment to be effective...

Evaluation of an Assertive Continuing Care Program for Hispanic Adolescents.

PURPOSE This study evaluated an Adolescent Community Reinforcement Approach (A-CRA) and Assertive Continuing Care (ACC) program targeting Hispanic adolescents at risk for substance abuse. METHOD The Clinic for Education, Treatment, and Prevention of Addiction (CETPA, Inc.), a behavioral health provider offering culturally appropriate substance use and mental health services, carried out the i...