Virtual teaching offers practitioners new style of radiotherapy training

The Effect of Training in Virtual Environment on Nursing Students Attitudes toward Virtual Learning and its Relationship with Learning Style

Introduction: It is impossible to be successful in virtual training unless we consider individuals’ viewpoints toward it. Despite this fact, less attention has been paid to students’ attitudes at the end of a virtual course in the published studies. This study investigates the effect of a virtual training course on the students` attitudes toward virtual education and its relationship with learn...

New approaches to training general practitioners.

Virtual Reality Training for Radiotherapy becomes a Reality

A report in 2007 to the UK Government identified a crisis in England for training staff and students for the radiotherapy treatment of cancer. The Hull authors have developed an immersive life size virtual environment of a radiotherapy treatment room, known as VERT, to address this problem. VERT provides the trainee with models, simulation, enhanced visualization and training aids for treatment...

Educational Needs of Medical Records Practitioners in Isfahan Teaching Hospitals

Introduction: Need assessment through testing the staff's skills and knowledge reveals the gap between the present and optimal situation and helps prioritize job needs. Educational need assessment is an essential step in developing educational programs and improving human resources' skills and knowledge. So this research was done to determine educational needs of medical records practitioners' ...

Training General Practitioners in Psychiatry - a New Venture

Formal training programmes in psychiatry for general practitioners (GPs) by Psychiatrists so far reported have involved MBBS graduates. But, a considerable proportion of registered medical practitioners who serve the community are non-MBBS about whose training needs, no experience is yet available. This paper describes a training programme in which an attempt was made to know the training needs...