OBJECTIVE to analyze in detail the current situation of doctorate training in Nursing in Chile. METHODOLOGY through a historical and contextual analysis of the background to the development of postgraduate education in Nursing, especially at doctorate level. RESULTS aspects that limit development were identified in national institutionalism of the sciences as well as in higher education and...

INTRODUCTION Career choice, sense of professional identity and career behaviour are influenced, subject to change and capable of development through interaction with the learning environment. In this paper workplace learning discourses are used to frame ongoing concerns associated with higher specialist training. Data from the first stage of a multimethods investigation into recruitment into an...

graduate dean and the chief executive in an NHS trust to oversee the provision of education for doctors in training and to ensure that this is carried out to a satisfactory standard. Many clinical tutors are, in practice if not in name, directors of medical education with a position on the trust board or trust executive committee. They are able to inform trusts about the effect of organisationa...

In spite of the existence of a dual system of postgraduation, one under the Medical Council of India (MCI) and the other on a parallel track under the National Board of Examinations, postgraduate medical education in India is beset with several problems. For example, the curriculum has not been revised comprehensively for several decades. The diploma course under the MCI has become unpopular an...

The aim of this article is to describe cancer education in Lithuania according to the data of 2013. In Lithuania, there are the following stages of education for physicians: basic education through integrated studies of medicine (six years), postgraduate education through residency studies (four to five years), and continuing professional development. In recent years, integrated studies of medi...

AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The aim of the larger study was to ascertain the medication practices of registered and enrolled nurses in rural and remote areas of Queensland after the introduction of the Health (Drugs and Poisons) Regulation. This paper reports on the findings of the role of registered nurses and their confidence in the ability to provide information on medications in a way that the clie...

Anatomy faces new challenges in the 21st century. Exponential growth of knowledge, paradigm shifts in medical education, and the scientific trend to subcellular and molecular research make an impact on the institutions of today. We described our concept of clinical anatomy as a contemporary and innovative model for student teaching, postgraduate training, and applied clinical research. Anatomy ...