OBJECTIVE To analyze the level of noise at the workplace environment among Physical Education teachers during indoor bike classes and its association with some aspects of health. METHODS Cross-sectional study carried out in 15 different gyms with 15 teachers in Rio de Janeiro (Southeastern Brazil) in 2007. A standardized questionnaire, tested in relation to its replication, was used in order ...

Accounts of early activities of public health educators, statements of the American Public Health Association on the qualifications and functions of these educators, and studies concerned with their responsbiliities, functions, work, or roles are reviewed. These point up the three major foci in public health education over time in the U.S., viz, dissemination of information, community organizat...

OBJECTIVE In this article, the authors ask three questions. First, what will physicians need to know in order to be effective in the future? Second, what role will technology play in achieving that high level of effectiveness? Third, what specific skill sets will physicians need to master in order to become effective? METHOD Through three case vignettes describing past, present, and potential...

The history of medical education in Malaysia is a relatively short one. From 1905 until 1964, Malaysian doctors were trained either at the King Edward the VII Medical College in Singapore or overseas in other Commonwealth countries. In 1964, the Faculty of Medicine was set-up in the University ofMalaya in Kuala Lumpur and admitted its first class of 46 students (Faculty of Medicine, University ...

In this issue of the CMEJ we showcase several studies of successful innovations, a commentary calling for more and better research into curriculum delivery models to eventually improve the choices available to curriculum planners, and a suggestion that a recent change in resident work hours was ill advised. Applied research, which is much of what currently happens in medical education, by its v...

Within the Eastern Leprosy Control Project of Nepal, a retrospective case control study looked for simple factors that might be used operationally to predict non-compliant behaviour in patients. Patients with these factors would then become the targets of measures such as intensified health education messages and home visits in order to reduce the risk of defaulting. A study of 1442 patient car...

OBJECTIVE To describe a process for developing low-literacy health education materials that increase knowledge and activate patients toward healthier behaviors. METHODS We developed a theoretically informed process for developing educational materials. This process included convening a multidisciplinary creative team, soliciting stakeholder input, identifying key concepts to be communicated, ...

INTRODUCTION Professionalism is characterized by the degree of dedication displayed by individuals regarding the values and behavioral attributes of a specific career identity. Professionalism indicates attitudes that represent high levels of identification with and commitment to a specific profession. In the process of the professional development of nursing, various factors affect these obsta...

one of the important problems concerning women in iranian organizations is the stereotype attitudes towards women inherited from the past. many of these negative attitudes have been made by men, and that’s why, women's efficiency and effectiveness in organizations seems low as compared to that of men. this study attempts to examine the popular clichés concerning women's organizational...