This report describes a clinical training program designed to increase general practitioner involvement with a public mental health service. The program involved one half-day clinical session per week and one two-hour formal training seminar per month, over a six-month period. Prior to training, participants demonstrated major clinical and theoretical skill deficits when assessing patients with...

PURPOSE This study was planned to investigate which medical knowledge examination score-written examination on basic medicine, individual clinical medicine, and comprehensive clinical medicine-was closely related to clinical skill score in medical students. METHODS Scores on basic medicine, clinical medicine, graduation assessment, clinical performance examination (CPX), and objective structu...

Introduction: There is a demand for surgical simulation training to be made accessible in low-resource countries. We conducted pilot workshop at new state-of-the-art center and evaluated two novel low-cost models lower middle-income country (LMIC). Methods: A hands-on train local educators about was held center. Participant surveys were analyzed following the “training-the-trainer” workshop. Lo...

1 William J. Harvey is with Roberts Recreation Center at Douglas Hospital, 6875 Lasalle Blvd., Verdun, Quebec, Canada H4H-1R3. E-mail: [email protected]. Greg Reid is with the Department of Kinesiology and Physical Education at McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. E-mail: [email protected]. Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder: A Review of Research on Movement Skill Pe...

An "American-style" pediatric trauma care symposia consisting of lectures, workshops, and skill stations was held at a pediatric trauma center to improve pre- and post-hospital care for children, facilitate communication, and to set up standards within the regional rescue chain.