OBJECTIVES We evaluated an education, distribution, and fitting program for increasing age-appropriate and correct child restraint use. METHODS We performed a cluster randomized trial involving 28 early childhood education centers in low socioeconomic status areas in Sydney, Australia. The main outcome was optimal restraint use defined as age-appropriate restraints, installed into the vehicle...

Background: Medical education has experienced a significant shift from traditional teaching styles to online, distance, or electronic learning, which applies technology support strategies and engage learners in the learning process more effectively. Objectives: This study aimed investigate educators’ trainees’ viewpoints on virtual for community health workers (CHWs) at Kermanshah University of...

the main purpose of this study was to find the defects of agricultural education centers (aecs) inf hamadan province and to look for the remedies. hamadan province the research was carried out based on a descriptive survey method. research population consisted of agricultural education students (n=120). data was gathered through census method and questionnaire and as well through interview with...

INTRODUCTION In an attempt to address the rural medical workforce maldistribution and the concurrent inappropriate caseload at the urban tertiary teaching hospitals, Flinders University and the Riverland Division of General Practice decided to pilot, in 1997, an entire year of undergraduate clinical curriculum in Australian rural general practice. This program is called the Parallel Rural Commu...

INTRODUCTON In the USA, area health education centers (AHECs) work to recruit and educate students to serve in medically underserved communities, primary care, and rural settings. One important aspect of their work is connecting students with rural clinical experiences. Within these experiences, AHECs incorporate a community health/socioeconomic experience within the family medicine clerkship t...

Background A number of techniques have been used to modify the behavior of practicing physicians. Continuing medical education, practice guidelines and critical pathways represent a major thrust of these efforts. The relative effectiveness of each is largely dependent on the particular strategy employed in their implementation. Traditionally these strategies have focused on lectures and printed...

INTRODUCTION A community-based training (CBT) program, where teaching and training are carried out in the community outside of the teaching hospital, is a vital part of undergraduate medical education. Worldwide, there is a shift to competency-based training, and CBT is no exception. We attempted to develop a tool that uses a competency-based approach for assessment of CBT. METHODS Based on a...

CONTEXT Despite evidence that a variety of continuing medical education (CME) techniques can foster physician behavioral change, there have been no randomized trials comparing performance outcomes for physicians participating in Internet-based CME with physicians participating in a live CME intervention using approaches documented to be effective. OBJECTIVE To determine if Internet-based CME ...

An evaluation of dental and maxillofacial trauma in a level 1 trauma center in Israel was carried out to assess the causes of trauma and the relationship between the injuries to the patient's age, gender and ethnicity. Analysis was based on data from the Israel Trauma Registry. Patients hospitalized in a level 1 trauma center from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2005 were analyzed according to ...