Congruence among the Intended, Implemented and Attained “Thinking and Life Style” Curricula in the Eighth Grade M. A. Jamalifar Sh. Hashemi Moghadam, Ph.D. Z. Abedi Karajiban, Ph.D. A.R. Faghihi, Ph.D. The present study was carried out to examine the congruence among the intended, implemented and attained “thinking and life style” curricula in th...

Dental health care providers continue to offer inconsistent and limited tobacco use cessation (TUC) interventions even though smoking-related morbidity and mortality continue to be a substantial health concern. Our purpose was to conduct a comprehensive, three-year (2003-06) TUC curriculum evaluation that included assessment of existing TUC education offered; dental hygiene educators' readiness...

Context It has become increasingly important that athletic trainers (ATs) understand and promote diversity, inclusion, cultural competency. One technique training educators can use to competency for those in the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, asexual (LGBTQIA+) community is by attending a safe space ally (SST) program integrate concepts of SST programing into their curric...

The training programme for specialist registrars in genitourinary medicine (GU) lists sexual dysfunction (SD) as 'beyond essential, core curriculum' despite many GU medicine clinics offering this service. A cross-sectional study was performed of all trainees on the British Association for Sexual Health and HIV mailing list. Data collected included frequency of clinics attended and involvement, ...

The aims, structure, methods and educational experiences employed in the training of rheumatologists vary from one national programme to another, according to traditions, rules and resources. Mutual recognition of titles, the free movement of labour and the striving towards for high-quality standards in medical care in Europe demand that efforts and progress are made to ensure that similar comp...

BACKGROUND Cultural Respect Encompassing Simulation Training (CREST) is a learning program that uses simulation to provide health professional students and practitioners with strategies to communicate sensitively with culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) patients. It consists of training modules with a cultural competency evaluation framework and CALD simulated patients to interact with...

Resident surgical skills’ training is about to undergo a fundamental change from what has been practiced before. It has been determined that surgical education is going to shift from a time-based training paradigm (5-year general surgery residency program) to a criterion-based model with an emphasis on obtaining and maintaining competency. The structure of the new paradigm will feature several ...

The Royal Colleges of Physicians have revised the core curriculum for SHOs in medicine and the medical specialties to make it objective based. The objectives, knowledge, skills and attitudes for 'core skills' use ward based and outpatient clinical scenarios in specialty areas. There are also important sections on 'generic skills' including communication skills, team-working skills etc., cross-s...

BACKGROUND Cultural competency can be understood as those learned skills which help us understand cultural differences and ease communication between people who have different ways of understanding health, sickness and the body. Recently, medical schools have begun to recognise a need for cultural competency training. However, few reports have been published that articulate and evaluate cultura...

Medical Director, State of Wisconsin USA As the Medical Director of Emergency Medical Services for the State of Wisconsin, I feel compelled to share the results of our review of the new [U.S.]National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA)-sponsored Curriculum for the training of Paramedic-level emergency medical technicians (EMT-P). A Committee of nurse and physician educators from each...