the purpose of this study was to develop an emotional intelligence training program and to evaluate its effectiveness on decreasing behavior problems of adolescents with emotional and behavioral problems that living in single-parent families. this program was offered through workshop which consisted of 10 sessions, two hours per session. the study utilized a quasi-experimental research method w...

INTRODUCTION Patient handoffs are common during residency and are often performed with little or no training. We devised a simple intervention to improve the readiness of interns to perform handoffs. METHODS We administered a 90-minute interactive workshop during intern orientation in 2009 and 2010. It consisted of a discussion, a case presentation, and a trigger video, followed by debriefing...

BACKGROUND Occupational health (OH) practitioners need to be confident in identifying and managing mental health problems in the workforce. AIMS To evaluate the effectiveness of a one-day workshop in improving the knowledge, attitude and confidence of OH practitioners in detecting and managing depression, anxiety, suicide risk, alcohol misuse and drug abuse. METHODS Interactive mental healt...

Although several research groups within institutions in Nigeria have been involved in extensive malaria research, the link between the research community and policy formulation has not been optimal. The workshop aimed to assist post graduate students to identify knowledge gaps and to develop relevant Malaria-related research proposals in line with identified research priorities. A training need...

psychoeducational workshop that was rapidly developed and disseminated to an affected community in response to the attack on the World Trade Center (WTC). The workshop provided conceptually, empirically, and experientially grounded training to community and educational personnel on responses to disaster and trauma, resilience, tolerance, and compassion fatigue. [Brief Treatment and Crisis Inter...

This paper was originally prepared for the workshop, the Secondary Science Education for Development (http://www1.worldbank.org/education/scied/Training/training.htm), which was organized by the World Bank, Human Development, Education Group in April 2000. The workshop aimed to explore some of the issues involved in science education reform within a larger context of social and economic develop...

Long training workshops on the writing of exam questions have been shown to be effective; however, the effectiveness of short workshops needs to be demonstrated. The aim of this study was to evaluate the impact of a one-day, seven-hour faculty development workshop at the College of Dentistry, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia, on the quality of multiple-choice questions (MCQs). Kirkpatrick's f...

This first Educators’ Symposium of the conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS formerly the UML series of conferences) was intended as a forum to foster discussion and the exchange of information on education and training concerning model-driven engineering. This summary reports about the workshop and the results of the discussions during the workshop.