A new direction for medical education in Ireland?

Objective Structured Knowledge Exchange: A Novel Instructional Approach in Travel Medicine Education

The Potential of Blended Learning in Agricultural Education of Ireland

The management of agricultural education faces on-going challenges to deliver current and effective materials in an approach that takes advantage of developments in education technology. In this article the use of blended learning was compared with the traditional approach for the instruction of theoretical materials in agricultural education. This study used a pre-test, post-test experimental ...

Proposing and developing a National Institute for Forensic Toxicology in Ireland - transformation through education

Toxicology for coroners is an important minority service whose quality is central to the validity and integrity of the death certification system. Multidisciplinary case conferences are routine practice in the major medical specialties. In conventional practice for the coroners' courts, the dissecting pathologist is often relied upon to interpret toxicological data usually without specialist tr...

Continuing medical education for general practitioners--a Northern Ireland plan.

Following the introduction of the 1990 contract for general practitioners and the new postgraduate education allowance, the Northern Ireland Continuing Medical Education Group, comprising the clinical tutors from four Belfast hospitals and members of the University department of general practice, was established to provide high quality co-ordinated continuing medical education for general pract...

Awareness of Rabies Risk in a Sample of Travelers Attending an Irish Travel Medicine Clinic

Introduction: Many countries endemic for the rabies virus are popular tourist destinations for travelers from developed countries. This study was designed to assess the level of awareness of rabies in a sample of travelers attending a travel medicine clinic and to assess whether the rabies-specific information provided verbally should be reinforced into a written form before th...