SOCIAL SERVICE TRAINING

Service, training, mentorship: first report of an innovative education-support program to revitalize primary care social service in Chiapas, Mexico

Background The Mexican mandatory year of social service following medical school, or pasantía, is designed to provide a safety net for the underserved. However, social service physicians (pasantes) are typically unpracticed, unsupervised, and unsupported. Significant demotivation, absenteeism, and underperformance typically plague the social service year. Objective Compañeros en Salud (CES) aim...

Residency In-service Training Exam

Bibliography of Social Service

The following bibliography has been developed in connection with courses on social service in the Department of Psychology of the University of Pennsylvania. Its aim is to furnish a background for studying the heterogeneous mass of activities known as the modern "Social Service Movement". General biological, psychological, and sociological knowledge is presupposedreferences avowedly technical i...

Training for Social Workers

answer to a question in the House that legislation was to be introduced, on December 12th the Report was again brought before the notice of the Minister by Mr. Kenneth Robinson who asked whether the recommendation concerning financial assistance from central government funds for the training of social workers was to be accepted. The Circular states that, pending the formation of the new Council...

Comparison of the cost effectiveness of pre-service training and in-service training in Ethiopia

Background Ethiopia has implemented the Integrated Pharmaceutical Logistics System (IPLS) since 2009, under the Pharmaceutical Funds and Supplies Agency (PFSA). Although more than 5,000 healthcare workers have been trained on IPLS, staff attrition and expanding service delivery has required ongoing training. To address this, partners provide mainly in-service training (IST); although, recently,...