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Diabetes self-management education (DSME) is recognized as a fundamental component of diabetes care.1 The goal of DSME is to help patients acquire the knowledge, information, self-care practices, coping skills, and attitudes required for the effective selfmanagement of their diabetes. Several reviews and meta-analyses have found DSME interventions to have a positive impact on diabetes-related h...

BACKGROUND Academic medicine is in a state of dramatic transformation. For this reason strategic thinking is the most essential part of educational planning. The main purpose of the present study was developing the strategic educational planning of Ophthalmology in Iran from 2007 to 2010 METHODS A qualitative investigation using focus group discussion has been implemented successfully for dev...

Experience with Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students in the Bachelor of Applied Health Science (BAppHSc) course suggests that one of the key elements for students is the sense of relationship built up through Problem Based Learning (PBL). Failure to retain students is more likely to be related to personal than academic concerns. The low attrition rate is largely attributed ...

Nursing education programs may face significant difficulty as they struggle to prepare sufficient numbers of advanced practice registered nurses to fulfill the vision of helping to design an improved US healthcare system as described in the Institute of Medicine's "Future of nursing" report. This paper describes specific challenges and provides strategies to improve advanced practice nursing cl...

Vocational education in Hungary has seen significant changes over the past 20 years. However, the adaptivity of the system is largely aggravated by certain problems of content, compensation and selection. As a result, the success of Hungarian public education, as shown by PISA research, lags far behind its possibilities. In our present paper the adaptive model of vocational education is outline...

Only by evaluating the effectiveness of DE programs can we justify their use and continue to develop their quality