OBJECTIVES The Myanmar Ministry of Health has formed a partnership with Australasian professional colleges and international medical specialists to deliver a comprehensive programme for emergency care training and development. We describe this programme, emphasising the training of the first emergency specialists for Myanmar. METHODS Eighteen junior specialists (EM18) joined a new postgraduat...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine how occupational therapists perceive postprofessional education, specifically the reasons for pursuing or not pursuing graduate education, as well as to examine the factors that seem most important. METHOD Seven hundred and fifty members of the American Occupational Therapy Association who did not have advanced degrees were surveyed. Respon...

The state of Florida requires all students complete Algebra I and pass the End Course Examination (EOCE) to graduate with a standard high school diploma. EOCE results indicate that many African American do not examination. This research sought determine if there is relationship between students’ failure Four hypotheses, null alternative were tested. Two ninth-grade cohorts, 2013-2014 2014-2015 ...

The study examined the utilization of information and communication technologies by agricultural extension workers in Niger State, Nigeria. To achieve the study objective, 206 respondents were proportionately and randomly selected from the three agricultural zones in the State through multi-stage sampling technique. Validated questionnaire with reliability coefficient of 0.81 was used to collec...

Nurses’ image has always been a concern among those in the profession. This study set to determine the professional image of nursing as perceived by nurses working in tertiary hospitals in Enugu State, Southeast Nigeria. The objectives were to assess the factors within the nursing profession that motivates the nurses to practice nursing, determine the organizational factors that inhibit nurses ...

Background: Infection is a very common post-operative complication. Now day the knowledge about infection among healthcare provider essential. The study was aimed to determine health care regarding management of in postoperative ward. Methods: cross-sectional conducted 90 respondents (60 doctors, 50 nurses & 40 supporting staff) from January 2015 December Dhaka Medical College and Hospital....

BACKGROUND One of the goals of plastic surgery residency programs is to provide effective training in aesthetic surgery. Recently, programs have adopted the idea of chief clinics to provide senior residents with the opportunity to perform cosmetic surgery with an increased level of autonomy. The goal of this article is to characterize chief clinics currently in place and their usefulness in pro...

OBJECTIVE To perform an outcome-based evaluation of the diploma programme initiated in 2006 at the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture. METHODS The broad based evaluation was done at the Centre of Biomedical Ethics and Culture, Sindh Institute of Urology and Transplantation, Karachi, from July 2011 to June 2012 and comprised pass out batches from 2006 to 2010. Outcome logic model was appl...

Research shows that social work graduate programs offer little education in suicide prevention and intervention, yet social workers' experiences and attitudes regarding suicide education are unknown. This Web-based survey of 598 social workers found that almost all respondents had worked with at least one suicidal client, but most received little, if any, training in suicide prevention or inter...

While references to the concept of “learning community” abound in the literature, a common ingredient is the belief that learning is enhanced when there is a commitment to sharing ideas and knowledge within a collaborative group or network of individuals. To support student teachers completing their practicum placements as part of a one-year Graduate Diploma of Secondary Education at the Austra...