Need to define and measure "learning outcomes" in medical education

Coronavirus and medical education: Getting change and turning to new education paradigm: the need for scaffolding learning in online training

Coronavirus pandemic has caused extensive changes in various fields. Education is one challenging and necessary dimension to be paid attention by policymakers and considered as a necessity. Due to changes in the methods and styles of providing medical education from face-to-face to virtual training, and due to its novelty in our country and several challenges ahead, it is necessary to take meas...

The need to pay attention to differences in health literacy and knowledge in health education interventions

The Health Literacy (HL) is an individual and social capacity for access, understanding, evaluation of information and health services, and optimal utilization of it for health promotion [1]. Today, HL has been recognized as an important and vital indicator of the results and costs of health care the need for the effective health care system, has a good level of health literacy [2]. According t...

We Need to Measure and Address Corruption and Poor Governance in Health Systems; Comment on “We Need to Talk About Corruption in Health Systems”

Hutchinson et al offer a compelling argument for greater attention to and work in corruption in healthcare. We indeed need to talk about corruption, to understand and to grasp how to prevent and address it. This paper lays out some of the rationale for how to define the research questions, how best to address corruption – arguing that governance rather than corruption may offer a preferred star...

Need to define patient engagement in research.

[Need for occupational healt h education in undergraduate medical education].

Sr. Editor. Los profundos cambios políticos, demográficos y económicos de los últimos años han tenido un impacto importante en la demanda y provisión de servicios de salud en el Perú, los cuales han ido adaptándose a las nuevas condiciones. Desde el año 2004 el empleo formal en el Perú viene incrementándose progresivamente, siendo los sectores agricultura, pesca y minería los que concentran la ...

How to effectively define and measure maintainability

Maintainability and flexibility at the software level are of predominant importance to drive innovation at the business process level. However, existing definitions of maintainability, such as the Halstead Volume, McCabe's Cyclomatic Complexity or the SEI maintainability index provide a very poor understanding of what maintainability is how it can be assessed and ultimately controlled. This pap...