DETA adopted its current Program Evaluation Strategy in August 2005. The strategy is part of the agency’s corporate governance framework and outlines the requirements for the planning, conducting and reporting of program evaluations. The aim of the strategy is to deliver a robust and inclusive evaluation framework based on a rolling a three year schedule. It includes supporting documentation, a...

INTRODUCTION Prader-Willi syndrome (PWS) is a rare genetic disorder characterized by severe hypotonia during the neonatal period and the first two years of life, the onset of hyperphagia with a risk of obesity during infancy and adulthood, learning difficulties and behavioral or severe psychiatric problems. This complex disease has severe consequences and difficult management issues also for pa...

introduction. considering the improvement of the teaching quality in the higher education, this study was planned to evaluate the field training in the faculty of management and medical informatics by students. its results will be used in planning field training of this faculty methods. a checklist with five variables was distributed among 57 students in this survey. data analysis (both descrip...

BACKGROUND Recognizing the growing demand from medical students and residents for more comprehensive global health training, and the paucity of explicit curricula on such issues, global health and curriculum experts from the six Ontario Family Medicine Residency Programs worked together to design a framework for global health curricula in family medicine training programs. METHODS A working g...

Objectives: One of the problems in the process of assessment and evaluation, especially of clinical training in rehabilitation disciplines, is the lack of an instrument with objective criteria for evaluation. Considering the effects of appropriate evaluation on quality assurance of clinical training, the aim of the present study was to design a valid and reliable tool for general evaluation of ...

Serious games are part of the new emerging world of education environment that is based on sophisticated technology with elements of entertainment. They have been seen as good supplements for supporting the learning processes due to their capability to in‐ crease visualisations and challenge the student creativity. They have the potential to sig‐ nificantly improve training and education activi...