Teaching Staff Advanced Training: European Experience

Advanced trauma life support training for hospital staff.

BACKGROUND Injury is responsible for an increasing global burden of death and disability. As a result, new models of trauma care have been developed. Many of these, though initially developed in high-income countries (HICs), are now being adopted in low and middle-income countries (LMICs). One such trauma care model is advanced trauma life support (ATLS) training in hospitals, which is being pr...

House Staff Communication Training and Patient Experience Scores

OBJECTIVE To assess whether communication training for housestaff via role-playing exercises (1) is well-received and (2) improves patient experience scores in housestaff clinics. METHODS We conducted a pre-post study in which the housestaff for 3 adult hospital departments participated in communication trainingled by trained faculty in small groups . Sessions centered on a published 5-step s...

Improving Teaching-Learning Process and Experience Based on Students, Faculty and Staff Perspectives

In order to make strategic decisions, the new leadership team at the College of Agriculture at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona conducted a series of focus group interviews with its students, faculty, and staff members. The purpose of this qualitative study was to poll the opinions of these important stakeholders to improve the teaching-learning process in the college, to pro...

Improving ethnocultural competence of hospital staff by training: experiences from the European 'Migrant-friendly Hospitals' project

Cultural competence training for staff in healthcare seems one of the most widespread measures to deal with ethnocultural diversity, especially in North America. Most of the studies and experiences of this training originate from the United States; European contributions, especially from continental Europe, are rare. This paper contributes to the cultural competence discourse by presenting expe...

Teaching staff to cope with patient violence.