TRAINING FOR COMMUNITY SERVICE

Internship training adequately prepares South African medical graduates for community service - with exceptions.

BACKGROUND The 2-year internship period for medical graduates began in South Africa in 2005 and has never been formally evaluated. OBJECTIVE This study assessed the perceptions of community service medical officers (COSMOs) working at district hospitals (DHs) in KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) to determine whether the 2-year internship programme had adequately prepared them for community service (CS). ...

Community service.

kirkpatrick evaluation model for in‑service training on cardiopulmonary resuscitation

abstract background: there are several evaluation models that can be used to evaluate the effect of in‑service training; one of them is the kirkpatrick model. the aim of the present study is to assess the in-service training of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (cpr) for nurses based on the kirkpatrick’s model. materials and methods: this study is a cross‑sectional study based on the kirkpatrick’s ...

Design of Authorization-Pull Service for Community Authorization Service

This paper proposes an Authorization-Pull support for Community Authorization Services (CAS), an authorization-push model for the Grid authorization by the Globus Alliance, to evaluate it in the role of a pull model. The proposed system tries to evaluate the advantages and use of an authorization-pull model in the grid scenario making use of CAS and compares the same with the push-model origina...

Selecting shelter dogs for service dog training.

Service dogs are an essential aid to persons with disabilities, providing independence, mobility, and improved self-esteem. Because of these proven benefits, the growing se of service dogs is creating a demand and supply crisis. One major cause is the 50% verage dropout rate for dogs selected for training. Weiss and Greenber (1997) re-cently found that a dog, successful on the most commonly use...