Education is often considered a means for enhancing adaptive capacity, based on the consideration that formal education is likely to improve the ability of individuals to evaluate risks and respond to warning information. We explore the relation between the level and nature of education and enhanced ability to respond to tropical cyclone risk. We make a distinction between formal school-based e...

A postgraduate programme is developed to provide Family Medicine training to practising General Practitioners. The programme provides physicians with didactic material by distance education while enhancing clinical competence through face-to-face sessions in ambulatory clinics. Assessment of participating physicians is based on the responses to distance education assignments, case presentations...

Men have been using herbal medicines for thousands of years. The advantages of this type of therapeutics include good availability, local cultural aspects, individual preferences, the increasing demand for natural and organic products, and the already validated synergistic effects of herbal medicines. However, ethically, the scope and limits of these drugs need to be established not only by eth...

OBJECTIVE To identify and review existing empirical research about service-learning and medical education and then to develop a framework for infusing service-learning in Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine curricula. METHODS We selected literature on service-learning and medical education. Articles were screened with a protocol for inclusion or exclusion at two separate stag...

Purpose. To determine family medicine residents' perceived knowledge and attitudes towards the built environment and their responsibility for health advocacy and to identify their perceived educational needs and barriers to patient education and advocacy. Methods. A web-based survey was conducted in Canada with University of Toronto family medicine residents. Data were analyzed descriptively. R...

BACKGROUND Learning needs analyses are often undertaken to plan continuing education programs. They usually use questionnaires that have shortcomings regarding validity, relevance, breadth and detail. We tested a questionnaire using four questioning strategies to approximately 1762 general practitioners. METHOD Our questionnaire listing 104 topics asked open ended questions and specific infor...

The United States health system is in crisis. Amidst unprecedented opportunities to transform healthcare for the better, American medicine faces threats from two directions. One is financial and cannot be solved by the profession alone. Health care technologies are more expensive, more people want access to them, and reimbursement mechanisms neither provide universal coverage nor reward improve...

With medical education transitioning from knowledge-based curricula to competency-based curricula, critical thinking skills have emerged as a major competency. While there are validated external instruments for assessing critical thinking, many educators have created their own custom assessments of critical thinking. However, the face validity of these assessments has not been challenged. The p...

his paper proposes that the discipline of General Practice (Family Medicine) appropriately trains doctors to meet the identified health needs of Nepal and can make an extremely valuable contribution to the medical education of undergraduates. The paper will identify the current health needs of Nepal as revealed in The Human Resources Report of His Majesty’s Government (HMG) 2003 and demonstrate...

Background The distribution of postgraduate medical training (residency) positions in Canada is administered by medical schools and universities in conjunction with individual provinces. In Atlantic Canada, the Maritime provinces are considered a single unit under Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia (NS), although distributed medical undergraduate education through Dalhousie and Sherbrooke has ...