In many countries, family medicine (FM) training has been conducted mainly by senior family physicians alone. However, FM training in Singapore in the last 30 years has involved specialists working in close collaboration with family physicians. The areas in which specialists are currently involved include the training of FM trainees in tertiary hospitals, the Master of Medicine in Family Medici...

background: continuous evaluation is required in order to ensure the university system’s efficiency. one of the important aspects of evaluating the educational system’s effectiveness is judging the system’s ability in meeting environmental needs. the present research’s goal has been to investigate nursing education’s efficiency through investigating the graduate’s condition and their views on e...

Undergraduate medical education in Sweden has moved from nationally regulated, subject-based courses to programmes integrated either around organ systems or physiological and patho-physiological processes, or organised around basic medical science in conjunction with clinical specialities, with individual profiles at the seven medical schools. The national regulations are restricted to overall ...

This paper offers a wide ranging analysis of the drivers that resulted in scrutiny of medical, nursing, and healthcare professional roles. It suggests that what is needed is a coherent vision of the future shape of the health workforce. This requires moving beyond the presumption that reforming working practices primarily involves "delegating doctors" responsibilities to nurses. The paper argue...

Interprofessional education (IPE) is acknowledged as important in producing health care profession graduates able to work collaboratively with colleagues from other health professions. There are, however, a range of obstacles to development of effective IPE programmes. Differing health professional cultures and socialisation processes have been identified as two potential barriers. This article...

SETTING An orthopaedic interprofessional training ward manned by students at a University Hospital. OBJECTIVE To assess to what extent students from different undergraduate programmes evaluated the effects of a 2-week rotation at the ward on their professional roles and the value of teamwork within health care. METHOD A questionnaire was filled in by 841 students by the end of a 2-week rota...

AIM To reduce variations in grading of midwifery practice and enhance reliability of assessment. BACKGROUND The first phase of a national project showed there to be widely ranging interpretation and application of professional educational standards in relation to grading of practice in midwifery. This raised concerns about reliability and equity of professional assessment. The second phase th...

Internationally, medical education has increasingly been the subject of scrutiny and debate. This article represents a review of the burgeoning literature on medical education. The focus is on encouraging teachers to improve the quality of students' learning. The educational rationale for some of the major current developments is considered. Change imposes significant challenges for teachers an...

Although decades of research have well elaborated on teacher professional development, we still do not have a thorough picture about what teacher professional development could entail and what components it consists of. The present study aims to develop and validate a teacher professional development scale in an Iranian English foreign language context. An initial tentative model with 130 items...