BACKGROUND Family Physician (FP) trainees are expected to be provided with high quality training in well organized practice settings. This study examines differences between FP trainers and non-trainers and their practices to see whether there are differences in trainers and non-trainers and in how their practices are organized and their services are delivered. METHOD 203 practices (88 non-tr...

Rwanda still suffers from communicable diseases which frequently lead to epidemics. In addition to other health workforce needs, Rwanda also lacks a public health workforce that can operate multi-disease surveillance and response systems at the national and sub-national levels.In 2009 and 2010 the Rwanda Ministry of Health and its partners from the Government of Rwanda (GOR) as well as the Unit...

this study intended to assess the utilization of information technology services by employees in public sector through taking geita district council, tanzania as a case study. the study aimed at examining the utilization of it services as a tool to generate efficiency of work in order to find out it services utilized by employees in the organization; it also investigates the role of it sectors ...

background and objectives: medical errors and adverse events have recently turned into one of the predominant concerns of health-policy makers and health services providers. promoting safety culture is fundamental to sustainable safety improvement in healthcare settings. the purpose of this study was to examine the effect of training on nurses’ attitudes towards safety culture.   methods: a cro...

AIMS To evaluate the acceptability and effectiveness of cultural competence and antiracism training to professionals providing services to ill or disabled children. METHODS Immediate post-training and retrospective questionnaire survey of trainees. Main outcome measures were acceptability; perceived relevance to practice; previous training in this area; perceived impact on professionals' conf...

The Florida Health Information Network (FHIN) was established in October 1989 to provide biomedical information services to the University of Florida Health Science Center (HSC) and to health professionals throughout the state--especially the northern thirty-nine counties of the state. FHIN services are available to all affiliates of the HSC and by annual subscription to nonaffiliates. At prese...

The aim of the AgroFE project is to play an important role in Agroforestry trainings in European dimension. Depending on the European countries, states or professional organizations and training actors try to reintroduce agroforestry training and education in different levels. The main objectives are to make a synthesis of needs and expectations, based on the present existing training actions a...

This paper reports the results of initial trials of a Group Process Support System (GPSS) to aid the training of Norwegian social services personnel in the use of a standardised framework known as Gerix, which is used for the assessment of social services clients. As well as providing the GPSS technology, a degree of structure was introduced to the groups involving feedback, debate, and re-asse...