Education and Training - Capacity Building

Capacity Development, Education & Training

Medical missions, surgical education, and capacity building.

Campbell and colleagues provide additional evidence hat a highly structured short-term experience in a resourceimited environment enhances training of North Amerian surgical residents. In this case, residents worked ith Operation Smile, which has provided high-volume umanitarian surgical care in many low-income counries for 25 years. Trainees from high-income countries ave also reflected that s...

General practice research - training and capacity building.

The Lancet in 1999 suggested that 'neglect of research has made primary care one of the most intellectually underdeveloped disciplines in medicine' and later labelled general practice research 'a lost cause'. According to the Medical Journal of Australia, this underdevelopment 'stems from a lack of research culture, a heavy service commitment and the late arrival of academic GPs'.

Community capacity building: a collaborative approach to designing a training and education model.

BACKGROUND Successful community-academic research partnerships require building the capacity of both community-based organizations (CBOs) and academics to conduct collaborative research of mutual interest and benefit. Yet, information about the needs and goals of research-interested CBOs is lacking. Our partnership aimed to conduct a community research needs assessment and to use results to dev...

Training, Coaching and Beyond: Building Capacity in Your Wraparound Workforce

A wraparound has continued to grow and expand, so has the variation among wraparound projects. This variation may be driven by political circumstances as they play out in funding and organizational options. It also may be driven by bureaucratic and administrative issues such as those related to Medicaid funding or state licensing requirements. Variation can also be fueled by human resource conc...