BACKGROUND In many countries, availability of basic training and continued professional development programmes in wheelchair services is limited. Therefore, many health professionals lack access to formal training opportunities and new approaches to improve wheelchair service provision. To address this need, the World Health Organization (WHO) developed the WHO Wheelchair Service Training of Tr...

Background and Aim. Reflection is known as a skill that is central to nursing students' professional development. Due to the importance and the role of reflection in clinical areas of nursing, it is important to know how to achieve it. However, nursing trainers face the challenge of how to help their students to improve reflection in clinical settings. The aim of this study was to investigate t...

We report the reactions of 250 patients who saw two doctors together, a general-practitioner trainer and a vocational trainee, when they came to a general practice for consultation.Over 80 per cent were neutral and the remainder were almost equally divided between those who preferred to see two doctors and those who preferred to see their own doctor alone.Selected favourable statements outnumbe...

In this paper we present general theoretical models to improve the coordination between team members. We apply these models for passing, a coordination problem in soccer, and demonstrate the usefulness of these models. For the improvement of the team a trainer has been used to extract good passing behavior out of a set of games. The trainer improves this behavior and gives advice for the agents...

An experimental multidisciplinary course for prospective general practitioner and practice nurse trainers is described. Factual knowledge and attitudes were measured before and after the course and some of the changes measured emphasized the importance of multidisciplinary training. The ideas generated by the group of nurse trainers in terms of their future professional development were identif...

The purpose of this paper is to explore the acceptance and the appropriation of videoconferencing-mediated training during real training situations in a French company. We compare the acceptance and appropriation by 60 employees of two videoconferencingmediated training systems : the virtual class (desktop videoconferencing) and the remote class (where learners are gathered together in the same...

Training in interventional pulmonology procedures is increasing in popularity. However, the nature of training is difficult to define, particularly with respect to an adequate number of cases. These guidelines approach training not just from a modest number of supervised cases, but also from a range of educational and outcome targets which give a rounded approach to the issue. These include pre...

Simulators are commonly used to train complex tasks. In particular, simulators are applied to train dangerous tasks, to save costs, and to investigate the impact of different factors on task performance. However, in most cases, the transfer of simulator training to the real task has not been investigated. Without a proof for successful skill transfer, simulators might not be helpful at all or e...

The growing prevalence in the types, severity, and percentage of mental illnesses in young adults ages 18 to 25 years, the age group of college students and studentathletes, is being recognized. Given the National Collegiate Athletic Association student-athlete participation rates of more than 450 000 in 2011–2012, the probability of encountering 1 or more student-athletes with psychological co...

Earlier this year, the General Medical Council (GMC) in the UK published a document setting out standards for training junior doctors. As such documents go, it is clear, comprehensive anddas the GMC might say itselfdfit for purpose. While no-one would be tempted to set it to music, it’s certainly useful to have a standard in writing like the following one: ‘Trainees must be supported to acquire...