BACKGROUND Literature suggests a paucity of formal training in end-of-life care in contemporary American medical education. Similar to trainees in adult medicine, paediatric trainees are frequently involved in end-of-life cases. OBJECTIVE To determine current experience and comfort levels among paediatric trainees when caring for dying patients with the hypothesis that more clinical experienc...

OBJECTIVE To make salient the striking similarities between the program planning processes used in both health education and contemporary marketing. METHOD Through a discussion of the analogous nature of both processes and a review of the literature, the authors (1) illustrate why marketing principles should be embraced and (2) suggest how marketing strategies can be integrated into health ed...

Objectives: Competency-based medical education (CBME) requires factual knowledge to be practically applied together with skills and attitudes. With the National Competence-Based Learning Objectives for Undergraduate Medical Education (NKLM) representing a strong official demand for competence-orientation, it is generally important to explicitly outline its characteristics and review its realisa...

INTRODUCTION Our current knowledge-based society and the many actualisations within the medical profession require a great responsibility of physicians to continuously develop and refine their skills. In this article, we reflect on some recent findings in the field of continuing education for professional doctors (continuing medical education, CME). Second, we describe the development of a CME ...

of planning. according to the family physician’s idea, evaluating programs in order to improve them is one of the necessities of promoting quality and increases the efficiency and effectiveness of continuing education. this study aimed to determine family physicians’ educational needs regarding health and its applicability in continuous medical education in fasa university of medical sciences. ...

objectives: the needs and problems of students with physical-motor disabilities should be properly identified in order to solve them. the main purpose of this research was to determine the needs and problems of iranian male students with physical-motor disabilities in the education and employment dimensions.  methods: this was a descriptive study. all the male students with physical-motor disab...

background and purpose: medical education is a complex process that intends to train the students in situation like they should work in future such as hospital, clinics, health care center and theire oficess. so, first, it should be clear that, how much the curriculum of medical education meets the professional needs. method: questionnaires were designed and distributed among 125 physicians (gp...

introduction: by considering daily progress of advanced technology and unimaginable advances in the management technology region, demand to educate and improve working personnel of administrative health and hygiene fields seems to be vital by considering the present situation. the main purpose of this study is to specify the educational demand of health care management graduates who are working...

abstract background: family psycho-education is one of the most effective interventions for preventing relapse in patients with schizophrenia. we evaluated the efficacy of a needs-assessment–based educational program in comparison with a current program (textbook based) in the treatment of schizophrenia. materials and methods: patients with schizophrenia and their families (n = 60) were allocat...