PROFESSIONAL-VOCATIONAL ORIENTATION TOWARDS THE NATUROPATHY CAREER IN RIOBAMBA, CHIMBORAZO, ECUADOR

Dentistry – a professional contained career in healthcare. A qualitative study of Vocational Dental Practitioners' professional expectations

BACKGROUND New graduates in the UK presently spend one year in training as Vocational Dental Practitioners (VDPs) in preparation for primary dental care. There is a growing recognition that the emerging workforce has very different professional expectations to those of earlier generations, with implications for the profession, patients and the performance of health systems. The objectives of th...

It’s Not Just the Technology, It’s the Surrounding System: How Researchers in Ecuador Found Ways to Make Themselves Useful to Farmers through Quinoa and Lupin Seed Systems

By NELSON MAZÓN†, EDUARDO PERALTA†, ÁNGEL MURILLO†, MARCO RIVERA‡, ALFONSO GUZMÁN§, NICOLÁS PICHAZACA¶ and CLAIRE NICKLIN††‡‡ †Programa Nacional de Leguminosas y Granos Andinos, Estación Experimental Santa Catalina, Instituto Nacional Autónomo de Investigaciones Agropecuarias (INIAP). Panamericana Sur, km 1. Quito, Ecuador, ‡Universidad Técnica de Cotopaxi, Latacunga, Ecuador, §Gobierno Provinc...

Medicinal Plants Used in Traditional Herbal Medicine in the Province of Chimborazo, Ecuador

BACKGROUND Phyto-therapy studies on Chimborazo province in Ecuador are really limited. This area, located within the Andes, is considered a millenarian and intercultural province, where multiples cultures and ethnic groups coexist. MATERIALS AND METHODS The study was conducted through direct interviews with 84 ancestral healers from the Province of Chimborazo, Ecuador. RESULTS We presented ...

Brazilian dental students' intentions and motivations towards their professional career.

Investigating career motivations and intentions of dental students provides a better understanding of their role in society and contributes to the debate on dental education and practices. This study describes the profile, career choice motivations, and career intentions of Brazilian dental students and evaluates factors related to these choices. A cross-sectional study was carried out among de...

Career guidance and orientation