Some Reflections on Graduate Professional Education in Adult Education

Professional education: Some reflections

It was a courageous decision to found a journal in the early 1980’s; and it was nothing less than a leap of faith to name a journal: Education for Information. The times were not auspicious: people were becoming less certain as to what ‘Education’ was; and it was often said of ‘Information’ that it told one more about the user of the term than it did about its intended objective correlative. Li...

Professional liability issues in graduate medical education.

Resident physicians, attending physicians, and graduate medical education (GME) institutions share a collective responsibility to deliver safe and appropriate care to patients. The law does not offer concessions in quality of care to accommodate GME. Resident physicians are generally held to the same standard of care as attending physicians in their respective specialties. This principle encour...

Environmerit: *Graduate Medical Education: Higher Education: *Medical Education: Physician Patient Relationship: Professional Continuing Education: Rural Areas: Teacher Effectiveness

The proceedings categorize 55 papers on research in medical education'in 12 sections: standards and standard setting (including equivalence-testing methods, standardized, examinations, and foreign exams) : predicting career outcomes (career choice and satisfacttion): teaching clinical skills (student-patient relations and interview skills): teachingin the clinical setting: continuing medical ed...

[Education of the nurse for caring: reflections of professional practice].

It is a reflective study that aimed at discussing the education of the nurse concerning the care in a perspective of change of the professional practice. The curricular guidelines for the profession are based Guidelines and Basis for National Edcucation which have aims to educate capable nurses to transform the practical reality of the Brazilian nursing. However, we realize that only the implem...

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