Research-Oriented Educational Program in Public Health Psychiatry

Preventive psychiatry within public health

Thank you, BJPsych, for your timely editorial on population mental health. It is a pity that the authors did not mention the strategy for England entitled No Health without Mental Health, launched in February (before their final submission) as this strategy did involve precisely the teamwork of psychiatrists, public health specialists and economists that they see as ‘the challenge’. Their ‘must...

Psychiatry and the Public Health

This book reprints the five Heath Clark Lectures of 1957 given by Professor Hargreaves. They deal with psychiatry and its origins, society, medical administration, the family doctor and public health practice. His beautifully turned phrases should make no one miss the wise counsel and penetrating commonsense focussed on the above topics (in which psychiatry has often been neglected). Family doc...

Evaluation of a National Online Educational Program in Geriatric Psychiatry

OBJECTIVE This study provides evaluation results of an online study group (OSG) for geriatric psychiatry continuing professional development. METHODS The OSG is an interactive, expert-facilitated, asynchronous educational experience for psychiatrists and residents in Canada. A retrospective web survey assessed self-efficacy, knowledge in geriatric psychiatry, comfort with online learning, and...

Designing the internal evaluation indicators of educational planning in postgraduate program (input, process, outcome domains) in public health faculty. Isfahan

Introduction:This study has tried to design educational program indicators for internal evaluation of graduate courses in health school. Regarding the systemic approach in educational framework, the related indicators have been categorized in three groups as input, process and output. Method: First, indicators of graduate educational programs were defined based on different resources and scho...

Graduate Program in Public Health