• Recognition of learning: Certification/ recertification/ formal/ informal. CPD Stakeholders Healthcare professionals, societies and colleges, regulators, educators, policy makers and healthcare authorities, patients and public are all CPD stakeholders. Meaningful coordination amongst them is fundamental to create an integrated and effective CPD system that meets the needs of the profession, p...

2 The Role of Computed Tomography in Trans-catheter Aortic Valve Replacement Tammy Jones, Stephanie Lough. Faculty: Division of Radiation Science Technology Education, College of Allied Health Professions, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, NE According to the American Heart Association, aortic stenosis, which is the narrowing of the aortic valve opening, remains one of the most comm...

Thirty-nine volunteer students from 3 health science colleges at Touro University California participated in an exercise designed to promote interprofessional collaboration. In the event, thirteen 3-person multidisciplinary teams of students identified potential medical errors in a series of case-based scenarios. In an immediate postevent survey, 33 of 39 respondents (85%) indicated that the ex...

There has been a recent tendency to attach special importance to writing education. Books on 'writing to heal' are being written in or translated into Korean. According to these texts, writing is a valuable tool for internal healing, depending on the mode of application. Writing can have positive effects and give hope to an individual or group, but it can also be a source of frustration and des...

1 Principal, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 2 Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, College of Health Sciences, Makerere University, Kampala, Uganda, 3 Department of Learning, Informatics, Management and Ethics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 4 Department of Public Health Sciences, Global Health, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden, 5 Sch...

On April 27, 2011, the City of Tuscaloosa, Alabama suffered the worst natural disaster in its history. A one mile wide F5 tornado with 200 mile an hour winds damaged a significant portion of the city. There were 53 casualties and more than 1,000 injuries. DCH Regional Medical Center is a 583 tertiary care hospital and Level II Trauma Center servicing patients of West Alabama. Two hundred of the...

BACKGROUND The eHealth Literacy Scale (eHEALS) has been widely adopted by researchers to understand how eHealth literacy can be put into context. eHealth researchers need to know how to promote positive health behavior changes across college students, given the importance of the Internet to acquire and use health information. The American College Health Association identified a set of key healt...