Practising what they preach? Development NGOs and the EU’s Emergency Trust Fund for Africa

Practising what we preach.

The question of what makes 'good medical ethics' is explored focusing on the principles and values of the clinical professions, how these are integrated into patient care and shared with the wider public and on the central importance of good communication. The need for an effective learning base at all stages in professional careers is emphasised and the importance of measuring and monitoring o...

Why Don't They Practice What Ee Preach?

One of the most intractable problems in software is getting engineers to consistently use effective methods. The Software Engineering Institute (SEI) has worked on this problem for a number of years and has developed effective methods for addressing it. This paper describes these methods and shows what they have accomplished with several hundred students and working engineers. After first descr...

Practising what we preach: using cognitive load theory for workshop design and evaluation

Theory-based instructional design is a top priority in medical education. The goal of this Show and Tell article is to present our theory-driven approach to the design of instruction for clinical educators. We adopted cognitive load theory as a framework to design and evaluate a series of professional development workshops that were delivered at local, national and international academic confer...

The ideals of group living homes for people with dementia: do they practice what they preach?

In the Netherlands, as well as in other countries, nursing home care has been traditionally modeled on hospital care. However, in the last decades of the twentieth century, realization grew that, unlike hospitals, nursing homes needed to serve as literal homes to people. As a consequence, the concept of group living homes for older people with dementia has taken root. Group living home care was...

Exemplary medicine: why doctors should practise what they preach.