Training and Personnel

Selection and training of personnel for space flight.

T H E ACCOMPLISHMENT of powered flight into space will depend not only on the development of suitable cabins, propellants and engines, but also on the equally important issues of selection and training of space crews. I t is the purpose of this report to formulate, in the light of presently available information and opinion, a tentative outline of crew requlirements for spaceships and then to i...

Specialty Training and the Performance of First-Term Enlisted Personnel

patterns and variations in native and non-native interlanguage pragmatic rating: effects of rater training, intercultural proficiency, and self-assessment

although there are studies on pragmatic assessment, to date, literature has been almost silent about native and non-native english raters’ criteria for the assessment of efl learners’ pragmatic performance. focusing on this topic, this study pursued four purposes. the first one was to find criteria for rating the speech acts of apology and refusal in l2 by native and non-native english teachers...

Ophthalmic medical personnel certification: the ultimate training tool.

In this issue of the Canadian Journal of Ophthalmology, Astle et al. identify the need for more well-trained ophthalmic medical personnel (OMP) and provide strategies for the long-term success of OMP training. They analyzed data collected from Canadian ophthalmologists and OMP regarding the value and role of certified eye care personnel. Even though the environment is changing and much is out o...

Non-melanoma skin cancer: Training of physician support personnel