BACKGROUND Judgements about students' competence influence the goals of their individualised education programs (IEPs), the location of service delivery, and their placement in general education (GE) as opposed to special education (SE) classes. The purpose of this study was to describe how presumed competence to learn the GE curriculum was reflected in the IEPs of students with intellectual an...

Background The use of an anesthesiology rotation in the realm of surgical education is not very well studied. Several studies show the importance of an anesthesiology rotation in the grand scheme of undergraduate medical education. However, its importance in perioperative medicine and surgical education is not very well understood. This study attempts to look at this relationship and determine ...

care.' Despite efforts to set standards, guidelines, or protocols implementing them in practice has generally received little attention. Guidelines are not self implementing.2 It is well known that new and valuable information; new scientific results; and, in particular, new consensus guidelines or protocols reach only part of the target group.35 Even if doctors are well informed about what to ...

BACKGROUND A number of studies investigated the general practitioners' and family physicians' knowledge, attitude, and practice (KAP) on diabetes. However, studies on internists' KAP on diabetes management are limited. This study aimed to investigate the Iranian internists' KAP on diabetes mellitus and its management. METHODS A cross-sectional study was conducted on a random sample of interni...

It is remarkable the reduction in the number of medical students choosing general surgery as a career. In this context, new possibilities in the field of surgical education should be developed to combat this lack of interest. In this study, a program of surgical training based on learning with models of low-fidelity bench is designed as a complementary alternative to the various methodologies i...

Workplace learning in undergraduate medical education has predominantly been studied from a cognitive perspective, despite its complex contextual characteristics, which influence medical students' learning experiences in such a way that explanation in terms of knowledge, skills, attitudes and single determinants of instructiveness is unlikely to suffice. There is also a paucity of research whic...

rently 4 states (Minnesota, Oregon, Idaho, and North Carolina) allow MOC to count in lieu of continuing medical education for relicensing (and a number of others are moving in that direction), and participation in MOC can result in increased reimbursement through the Physician Quality and Reporting System program. The fees charged for certification and MOC go to support the complex assessment t...

background: with regard to the importance of life skills, the present study deals with the effect of life skills training on general health of the students . materials and methods: this was a one-group, pre-test, post-test, quasi-experimental research. forty students were selected through purposive sampling method. the data collection tool was goldberg general health questionnaire. results: pai...

background: continuing medical education (cme) of general practitioners (gps) regarding most of the diseases, especially psychiatric disorders, is implementing worldwide to maintain and develop their knowledge, skills, and professional performance. we investigated the effects of cme on gps knowledge in the field of psychiatric disorders in dezful university of medical sciences (dums) as a newly...