Foreign and domestic political challenges facing Russia actualize issues of improving the education system. Public municipal administration can only be effective if it relies on real needs society, which evolve all time. In turn, is a universal way to ensure compliance with public demand necessity. Education for service special part youth vocational training this case, tasks professional themse...

background and purpose: in education of medical science courses, there has been a growing orientation towards replacing traditional teaching in with e-learning education. since the modern system of education is based on self-directed learning, e-learning requires special powers to deal with new-emerging challenges and professionally encounter the learning environment. the purpose of the present...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE There has been much discussion concerning the relationship between an education in liberal arts and an education in a health profession. Some take a traditional view that the classics are the core of a liberal arts education, and therefore are separate from and preparatory for the professions.1 Others take a more contemporary view, such as using the arts or the humanities...

BACKGROUND Limited information exists on the framework and content of postgraduate education in internal medicine in Europe. This report describes the results of a survey of postgraduate training in internal medicine in the European countries. METHODS Two online questionnaire-based surveys were carried out by the European Board of Internal Medicine, one on the practice of internists and the o...

Modern medicine is dominated by guidelines. For most doctors, hardly a day goes by without consulting a document with the latest guidance on managing one medical condition or another. At the same time, guidelines and their place in medicine are being called into question as never before. In the most downloaded article in the BMJ this year, for example, Trisha Greenhalgh and her colleagues offer...

COURSE IN THE AREA OF HEALTH PROMOTION Mahrokh Kheshvari, Niko Yamani, Peyman Abidi, Hossein Shahnazi. Assistant Professor, Nursing and Midwifery Research Center in nursing and midwifery school in Isfahan University of medical sciences, Isfahan, Iran; Associate Professor, Medical Education Research Center, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran; Professor of Medicine; Isfahan Uni...

OBJECTIVE To standardise a complex intervention by defining the characteristic (specific) components of treatment for a randomised controlled trial of acupuncture as an intervention for individuals who have been diagnosed with depression using a consensus method. METHODS A nominal group technique was used. Potential components of the acupuncture intervention were generated from the literature...

BACKGROUND The recent growth of arts and humanities in medical education shows recognition that these disciplines can facilitate a breadth of thinking and result in personal and professional growth. However creative work can be a challenge to incorporate into a busy curriculum. Offering the option of creative media as a way of reflecting is an example of how this can occur. This study aimed to ...