Successful Distance-based Training for Technologically Challenged Urban HIV Providers

Electric Vehicles in New Zealand : Technologically Challenged ?

Special Measures for Quality and Challenged Providers: Study Protocol for Evaluating the Impact of Improvement Interventions in NHS Trusts

Background Healthcare organisations in England rated as inadequate in terms of leadership and one other domain enter the Special Measures for Quality (SMQ) regime to receive increased support and oversight. There is also a ‘watch list’ of challenged National Health Service (NHS) providers at risk of going into SMQ that receive support. There is limited knowledge about whether the interven...

Prevalence and drivers of HIV stigma among health providers in urban India: implications for interventions

INTRODUCTION HIV stigma inflicts hardship and suffering on people living with HIV (PLHIV) and interferes with both prevention and treatment efforts. Health professionals are often named by PLHIV as an important source of stigma. This study was designed to examine rates and drivers of stigma and discrimination among doctors, nurses and ward staff in different urban healthcare settings in high HI...

Using distance-based technologies for emergency medicine training and education.

Cost-effective and sustainable ways of continuing to improve emergency medical services and education worldwide must be pursued if the field is to continue to expand globally. Distance-based learning and the use of telecommunications advances present us with an ideal opportunity to improve international medical education. Such technologies can overcome the financial and logistic constraints of ...

Evidence-based training in the era of evidence-based practice: Challenges and opportunities for training of PTSD providers.

There is a pressing global need for trained and competent mental health clinicians to deliver evidence-based psychological therapies to millions of trauma survivors in need of care. Three model, large-scale training programs were initiated a decade ago, one in the United Kingdom (U.K.), and two in the United States (U.S.), to disseminate high-quality, evidence-based psychological care to trauma...