The College of Family Physicians of Canada (CFPC) has recently endorsed the recommendation from the Section of Teachers’ Working Group on Postgraduate Curriculum Review that residency training programs should develop and implement a competency-based curriculum that is • comprehensive, • focused on continuity of education and patient care, and • centred in family medicine. Together, these recomm...

background: examining the quality of nursing care from the patient's perspective is an important element in quality evaluation. the extent to which patients' expectations are met will influence their perceptions and their satisfaction with the quality of care received. methods:   a cross- sectional survey was conducted among admitted patients at king khalid teaching hospital, riyadh, saudi arab...

BACKGROUND Providing comprehensive emergency preparedness training (EPT) for patient care providers is important to the future success of emergency preparedness operations in the United States. Disasters are rare, complex events involving many patients and environmental factors that are difficult to reproduce in a training environment. Few EPT programs possess both competency-driven goals and m...

A core mission of health professions schools is to educate and train a workforce that will be optimally prepared to provide health care and public health services for the diverse communities that they serve. It is important to create and develop a health care workforce who can understand and assist in the battle against health care disparities. For health care workers and health profession scho...

Background The UK College of Emergency Medicine recommends that level 1 ultrasound competency is a basic standard for EM doctors and is now mandatory for career progression. Focused Assessment with Sonography in Trauma to include the detection of pleural fluid and pneumothorax (the Extended-FAST scan) forms part of this competency. We compare the diagnostic accuracy of E-FAST with the “gold sta...

In the current dynamic era, health care leaders are promoting interprofessional teams as one method to ensure timely access to the highest quality care. However, in a care paradigm that involves multiple professionals with specialized expertise, what is the role of medical leadership? How are contemporary professions to navigate these potential conflicts of expertise and authority in order to a...

The Objective Structured Clinical Examination is a versatile multipurpose evaluative tool that can be utilized to assess health care professionals in a clinical setting. It assesses competency, based on objective testing through direct observation. It is precise, objective, and reproducible allowing uniform testing of students for a wide range of clinical skills. Unlike the traditional clinical...

As nurse educators prepare new graduates for practice, part of the challenge is to ensure that these nurses are capable of functioning in a broad continuum of care with increased responsibilities. To identify competencies needed by new baccalaureate graduates in today's health care environment and determine whether these competencies fall into particular dimensions, a cross-sectional survey des...

background and objectives: discharge against medical advice (dama) is a significant healthcare problem posing negative impact on effectiveness of patient care and costs of the health system. in order to address this problem, first the potential influencing factor should be identifies. this study followed two major objectives: first, to evaluate the prevalence and potential causes of dama, and s...