2016 Canadian Association of Gastroenterology Educational Needs Assessment Report

2011 Canadian Association of Gastroenterology educational needs assessment report.

2009 Canadian Association of Gastroenterology educational needs assessment report.

The annual survey of Canadian Association of Gastroenterology (CAG)members’ educational needswas conducted via an online survey sent to 1036 CAG members in March 2016. A total of 100 individuals responded to the survey, of which 95 went on to rate educational topics. Similar to previous years, inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) topics were most in demand for future educational events. Other highl...

Canadian Association of Gastroenterology: Strategic Plan 2016–2020

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A Hepatitis C Educational Needs Assessment of Canadian Healthcare Providers

Background and Aim. Despite advances in the treatment of chronic hepatitis C infection (CHC), it remains a major public health problem in Canada and globally. The knowledge of healthcare providers (HCPs) is critical to improve the care of CHC in Canada. To assess the current knowledge and educational needs of healthcare providers (HCPs) in the area of CHC management a national online survey was...

Policy Capacity for Health Reform: Necessary but Insufficient; Comment on “Health Reform Requires Policy Capacity”

Forest and colleagues have persuasively made the case that policy capacity is a fundamental prerequisite to health reform. They offer a comprehensive life-cycle definition of policy capacity and stress that it involves much more than problem identification and option development. I would like to offer a Canadian perspective. If we define health reform as re-orienting the health system from acut...