Postgraduate education in general practice.

Future of general practice postgraduate education.

Motivation of general practitioners attending postgraduate education.

BACKGROUND The 1990 Contract encouraged general practitioners to participate in continuing medical education by providing a financial incentive. AIM The study was designed: to determine the motivation of general practitioners attending education events; and to compare motivation and reasons for attendance pre- and post-Contract at commercial and non-commercial meetings, and at the different e...

The place of homoeopathic medicine in postgraduate education for general practice.

The academic growth of homoeopathic medicine justifies and depends upon adequate representation within the postgraduate curriculum of general practice. Its role and status within the health service requires this if it is to be an effective and well integrated therapeutic option for doctors and patients. Its approach to illness offers a perspective that enhances the general practitioner's tradit...

Evidence based practice in postgraduate healthcare education: A systematic review

BACKGROUND Training in Evidence-Based Practice (EBP) has been widely implemented throughout medical school and residency curricula. The aim of this study is to systematically review studies that assessed the effectiveness of EBP teaching to improve knowledge, skills, attitudes and behavior of postgraduate healthcare workers, and to describe instruments available to evaluate EBP teaching. METH...

Postgraduate Education in Psychiatry for the General Practitioner

The improvement in the public health during the past century has resulted in an increased expectation of life. Today the public have gone a step further, and they are showing an increasing interest not only in the quantity of life available to each person but also in the quality of that life. Certainly what prevents many from enjoying a full and productive life within the affluent society in wh...