Thank you very much for inviting me to start off the discussions today on post-graduate medical education. Historically post-graduate education has always been grounded in the perception of the specific health care needs of patients. Therefore, I'm first going to address some of the more important health care needs of children, emphasizing the unmet needs which future pediatricians must be prep...

Background Iran is designing an evidence-based plan for promoting postgraduate medical education and efficient distribution of health professional human resources. An important part of this program is foresight studies for post graduate medical education considering the important trends affecting the future of health status and postgraduate medical education in Iran. In this article, we clarify...

Supervising Supervisors and Ph.D. Candidates on the development of supervision as a form of instruction and a pedagogic instrument in postgraduate education

A 3-year project of curricular renaissance undertaken by the faculty of an entry-level master's degree program is described. This project culminated in a thoroughly redesigned program of study centered around the construct of occupation and built on a foundation of knowledge in occupational science. Described herein are three developmental and highly iterative domains of activity that were cruc...

Friendship Bridge Nurses and Vietnamese nurses developed a partnership based on the concepts of collaboration, sustainability, critical mass, and shared vision. This article explores the process of development and issues of implementation of a graduate nursing education program in Vietnam.

Participants of the third colloquium of the Residency Review and Redesign in Pediatrics (R(3)P) Project concluded that pediatricians who practice ambulatory, hospital-based, a combination of ambulatory and hospital-based, and subspecialty pediatrics are sufficiently different to justify differences in general pediatric residency training. This conclusion along with others of previous colloquia ...