Suicide Prevention Australia (SPA) is a member organisation founded in 1992. It has approximately 300 individual and corporate members. Its charter is to prevent suicide in Australia, using community-based education and training, advocacy, and networking of governments, organisations and individuals to achieve this goal. Its annual conference provides premier opportunities for these activities....

A patient's culture has an effect on her or his view of illness, decision to seek care, and adherence to treatment plans and follow-up visits. In this article, we describe community-academic partnerships designed to teach improved delivery of culturally effective care conducted in pediatric residency training programs in New York, New York, and San Diego, California. Columbia University-Childre...

tion of the conference report is concerned with considerations more closely related to the resident as an individual. It considers the type of life he leads, his choice of psychiatry as a profession, the selection of residents, the training centers, and the ideals and realities of training programs. In these chapters there is greater agreement resulting in more specific and to-thepoint discussi...

In the United States, a central piece of legislation in this changing perspective was the Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) of 1993, which requires federal agencies to set goals and objectives, measure performance, and report their accomplishments as part of movement toward a performance-based environment. These requirements were intended to provide political accountability for resu...

BACKGROUND Hospital administrators play a key role in the effective management of surge capacity in disasters, but there is little information available about the characteristics required to manage this. OBJECTIVES In this study, we aimed to identify characteristics of hospital administrators that are important in the effective management of surge capacity in disasters. MATERIALS AND METHOD...

Understanding what is lacking in the online teaching literature is critical to helping researchers and practitioners develop programs and support mechanisms for online teachers in higher education. This review formulates a critique of the standardsand competency-driven vision of online teaching from the perspective of transformative learning theory, in order to offer an alternative exploration ...

BACKGROUND Ethics education and research on medical residents is needed because, unlike medical students or experienced doctors, medical residents have to perform multiple roles simultaneously - student, teacher and clinician - thus exposing them to unique ethical stressors. In this paper we reviewed the literature concerning ethics education in postgraduate pediatrics training programs. Our go...

Regardless of practice setting, it is imperative that pharmacists be able to either participate in generating new knowledge or use the ever-expanding body of literature to guide patient care. However, competing priorities in Pharm.D. curricula and residency training programs have resulted in limited emphasis on acquiring research and scholarly skills. Factors likely contributing to this reduced...

Regulations that restrict resident work hours and call for increased resident supervision have increased attending physician presence in the hospital during the nighttime. The resulting increased interactions between attendings and trainees provide an important opportunity and obligation to enhance the quality of learning that takes place in the hospital between 6 PM and 8 AM. Nighttime educati...