BACKGROUND With the reformed curriculum "4C", the Medical Faculty of the University of Cologne has started to systematically plan practical skills training, for which Clerkship Maturity is the first step. The key guidelines along which the curriculum was development were developed by experts. This approach has now been validated. MATERIALS AND METHODS Both students and teachers were asked to ...

Both the effectiveness of German Apprenticeship Training (GAT) and the reasons why firms voluntarily subsidise it hinge on how transferable it is. Describing the regulations surrounding GAT and examining the effects of post-apprenticeship mobility on wages and skill use using German panel data, we show that GAT is transferable within a broad vocational field (e.g. a 1-digit occupational group)....

The rise of Internet has created an urgent need to define widely agreed-upon methods and vocabularies for describing its contents in a consistent and orderly manner. This necessity can be satisfied by means of the use of Metadata Schemas. In achieving this aim in relation to the Educational, Vocational and Training sector, several initiatives have emerged at an international level, but there is...

This paper presents an overview of current or recently completed initiatives to create, structure, or help foster curricula for the on-going vocational training of information professionals with the aim of informing the implementation of DigCurV’s curriculum framework. The initiatives examined include the Digital Curation Centre, DaMSSI (Research Data Management Skills Support Initiative), DigC...

Educational games may improve learning by taking advantage of the new knowledge and skills of today’s students obtained from extensive use of interactive games. This paper describes how interactive dynamic simulators of advanced technical systems and phenomena can be shaped and adapted as games and competitions supporting technical education and training. Some selected examples at different edu...

‘Non-excludability’ of skills is suspected to give rise to poaching externalities and cause under-investment in training. To substantiate this hypothesis, the paper at hand investigates the relationship between labor turnover and firms’ dedication to continuing vocational training (CVT) exploiting novel survey data on firms in Germany (BIBB-FluCT data, N = 1.238). Regression analyses of these d...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate participants' perceptions of the impact on them of an additional six months' training beyond the standard 12 month general practice vocational training scheme. DESIGN Qualitative study using focus groups. SETTING General practice vocational training in Northern Ireland. PARTICIPANTS 13 general practitioner registrars, six of whom participated in the additional six mo...

Labor Productivity and Vocational Training: Evidence from Europe In this paper we show that vocational training is an important determinant of productivity growth. We construct a multi-country, multi-sectoral dataset, and quantify empirically to what extent vocational training has contributed to increase the growth rate of labor productivity in Europe between 1999 and 2005. We find that one ext...

Medical education research has focused almost entirely on the education of future physicians. In comparison, findings on other health-related occupations, such as medical assistants, are scarce. With the current study, we wanted to examine the knowledge-is-power hypothesis in a real life educational setting and add to the sparse literature on medical assistants. Acquisition of vocational knowle...