Events Centro’s events and other outreach projects are intended to promote a positive image of the Puerto Rican community based upon the contributions of our leaders and our communities to the city and its neighborhoods, and to celebrate the individuals and groups that have made a difference. Our programs promote the interaction of academics, artists, and the community in general and encourage ...

OBJECTIVE describe how music is used in the development of group educational activity in Family Health. METHODS a qualitative, descriptive and exploratory study, developed with 10 group coordinators, distributed in five basic care units in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil. Data were collected from March to July, 2009, with non participant observation in the group itself, and semi-structur...

Improvements in rail-highway grade crossing safety have resulted from engineering, law enforcement, and educating the public about the risks and the actions they should take. The primary form of the latter is a campaign called Operation Lifesaver which started in the 1970s. This paper uses a negative binomial regression to estimate whether variations in Operation Lifesaver activity across state...

UNLABELLED The Italian Ministry of Education, University and Research has recently reformed the medical schools of specialization in accordance with a series of EC Directives. Four different curricula have been defined into the class of "Diagnostics and Laboratory Medicine", respectively: Anatomic Pathology, Clinical Biochemistry, Clinical Pathology, and Microbiology & Virology. Each curriculum...

Study selection Studies were selected if they were randomised controlled trials (RCTs) or quasi-experimental studies with contemporaneous data collection, involved qualified health professionals or post graduate trainees, examined the effect of planned educational activities, and objectively measured health professional practice behaviour or patient outcomes. Studies were excluded if allocation...

An experience on design and implementation of electronic workshops about hot e-business topics and delivery of those workshops to various types of audiences is reported in this work. First aim of this work is to report the experience of our institution on building e-learning content suitable for electronic workshops and presenting the major facilities of the selected e-learning platform namely ...

AIM To describe the development of an undergraduate Gerodontology course in Athens Dental School. BACKGROUND Because of demographic changes, undergraduate dental curricula should place appropriate emphasis on the oral care of the elderly. Therefore, the Athens Dental School Curriculum Committee authorised the development of a new Gerodontology course. METHODS The new course was introduced i...

BACKGROUND A health science educational outreach program which began in 1991 and targets K-12 teachers and students has had 15,911 participants consume 60,069 hours of education as of the end of December 2003. The program is called the "Partners in Health Sciences" (PIHS) program. Many educational activities in the PIHS program contain information on both cancer biology and cancer prevention. ...