background and purpose: there are 3 specific reasons for education evaluation: to justify the existence and budget of the training department by showing how it contributes to the organization’s objectives and goals, to decide whether to continue or discontinue training programs, and to gain information on how to improve future training programs. we aimed to assess the effectiveness a media produ...

In January 2000, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM) cosponsored an invitational workshop entitled "Medical Informatics and Health Services Research: Bridging the Gap." Planned by a small committee of representatives from NLM and AHRQ institutional training centers, the workshop was designed to address the need for education of resear...

To address a severe shortage of human resources for health, the Zambian Ministry of Health has begun to make use of lay counsellors for HIV counselling and testing. However, their skills and knowledge rarely have been reviewed or refreshed. We conducted a two-day refresher workshop for lay counsellors to review their performance and refresh their skills and knowledge. The objective of this stud...

BACKGROUND Practicing physicians often wish to improve their procedural skills but have limited educational opportunities to do so. DESCRIPTION To summarize the effects of two procedural workshops on participants' confidence, proficiency, and practice patterns. EVALUATION Following completion of a skin biopsy or arthrocentesis workshop, participants completed a post-course and an 8-month fo...

BACKGROUND An intensive 3-day training programme, the 'Registrar Research Workshop' (RRW), has aimed to build research capacity among Australian general practice registrars since 1994. OBJECTIVES To investigate the impact of the RRW on participants' skills, confidence, interest in research and research activity. METHODS Cross-sectional postal survey in 2006 of five groups of registrars who ...

BACKGROUND In Nigeria, as in other developing countries, access to training in research ethics is limited, due to weak social, economic, and health infrastructure. The project described in this article was designed to develop the capacity of academic staff of the College of Medicine, University of Ibadan, Nigeria to conduct ethically acceptable research involving human participants. METHODS T...

  Background: Ergonomic training had been implemented for prevention or reduction of neck and shoulder complaints among workers. The purpose of the present study was to assess the role of ergonomic training intervention on decreasing the prevalence of neck and shoulder complaints among workers of an automobile factory.   Methods : Within the present randomized clinical trial, the role of three ...

Nephrology fellows often face difficult conversations about dialysis initiation or withdrawal but are frequently unprepared for these discussions. Despite evidence that communication skills are teachable, few fellowship programs include such training. A communication skills workshop for nephrology fellows (NephroTalk) focused on delivering bad news and helping patients define care goals, includ...