OBJECTIVES This study explored the suitability and benefits of problem-based learning (PBL) in competency-based postgraduate public health training. The PBL was delivered within a rural retreat and included site visits. METHODS Qualitative semistructured interviews with trainee public health officers and key informants. RESULTS The learning approach (retreat-PBL combination with site visits...

Recent changes in medical training prompted by Modernising Medical Careers and the New Deal requires a more structured, competency based training programme. This paper describes the development of such a programme in an emergency medicine department of a teaching hospital. It describes the process of design and the various aspects incorporated to develop a balanced system of training, appraisal...

Innovation and change in postgraduate medical education programs affects teaching hospital organizations, since medical education and clinical service are interrelated.Recent trends towards flexible, time-independent and individualized educational programs put pressure on this relationship. This pressure may lead to organizational uncertainty, unbalance and friction making it an important issue...

The literature suggests that there is a need for measuring public health informatics (PHI) competency to further understand whether current educational modules and modalities meet the needs of PHI practitioners and researchers to perform their jobs more effectively, particularly for mid-tier practitioners that constitute the majority of public health workers in the USA. The present study seeks ...

HYPOTHESIS Expert levels can be developed for use as training end points for a basic video-trainer skills curriculum, and the levels developed will be suitable for training. DESIGN Fifty subjects with minimal prior simulator exposure were enrolled using an institutional review board-approved protocol. As a measure of baseline performance, medical students (n = 11) and surgery residents (n = 3...

background and purpose: one of the main goals of nursing education is training appropriate and efficient nurses. the purpose of this study was to discover the perceptions of nursing students and their teachers about professional competency of academic staff. materials and methods: in this qualitative content-analysis approach study, the data were collected through unstructured in-depth intervie...

OBJECTIVE The Residency Review Committee (RRC) requirement that residents must achieve competency in psychodynamic psychotherapy has generated considerable deliberation. METHODS The authors debated this subject at the 2004 American Psychiatric Association (APA) meetings. RESULTS Arguments favoring current requirements emphasize the importance of psychodynamic psychotherapy for psychiatric t...

CONTEXT The Food Safety and Standards Act have redefined the roles and responsibilities of food regulatory workforce and calls for highly skilled human resources as it involves complex management procedures. AIMS 1) Identify the competencies needed among the food regulatory workforce in India. 2) Develop a competency-based training curriculum for food safety regulators in the country. 3) Deve...