1Department of Medical Education, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar 2Department of Pediatrics, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar 3Department of Surgery, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar 4Department of Dentistry, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar 5Department of Anesthesia, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar 6Department of Geriatrics, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qata...

Key Messages 1. A randomised controlled trial was conducted to determine the effectiveness of a computerised, errorless, learning-based, training programme to enhance schizophrenic patients’ cognitive functions and vocational outcomes. 2. A total of 80 Chinese with schizophrenia were randomly assigned to a 4-week, computerassisted, errorless-learning (CAEL) group, a therapistadministered (TA) g...

Social media nowadays influences almost every part of life. Particularly the educational context is characterized by an increased use of social and digital media in teaching and learning scenarios. Although most students are familiar with the use of social media, many students have problems when it comes to integrate social media in the learning processes of educational and professional context...

We use vocational training curricula to investigate how IT skills are trained within broader packages and these relate labour market outcomes. Skills the typical combinations of (e.g., CNC) technical or nontechnical material sciences work safety) that jointly required in real world occur curricula. This broadened perspective teaching offers new insights into digital can be successfully integrat...

OBJECTIVE Health-care communication skills training may be particularly needed in the Arabian Gulf countries because of the variety of cultures within the physician and patient populations. This study describes the implementation and results of a communication skills training program for physicians in Qatar that assessed previous training, and effect of previous training on participants' course...

The accreditation of information technology executive officers is being approached in this article as a problem of multicriteria decision analysis of professional skills, studies and vocational training. The proposed approach includes the analysis and modelling of the qualitative criteria that fall into the problem as well as the implementation of a set of multicriteria aggregation-disaggregati...

In this paper we estimate, for the 1989-93 period in Belgium, the effect of vocational classroom training on the rate of transition out of unemployment. We show that rationing of the demand for training increases the unemployment duration of non-participants, an effect neglected in programme evaluations. We propose a “control function” estimator accounting for variable treatment effects and ide...

OBJECTIVE To describe the adaptation of the Individual Placement and Support model of supported employment to individuals with a recent first episode of schizophrenia or a related psychotic disorder. METHODS AND RESULTS Given that the vocational goals of persons with a recent onset of schizophrenia often involve completion of schooling rather than only competitive employment, the principles o...

In this paper we provide reliability and validity data on the German language version of the Trait-Self-Regulation Questionnaire and report on the use of self-regulation as an outcome variable in training. The notion of self-regulation defines a comprehensive field of research and of theory development within educational psychology (Bandura; Deci & Ryan). A major area of interest is self-direct...