introduction: with the advent of new technology and creating virtual training centers, e-learning and training have achieved a specific place in training centers. this article has been studied the feasibility of distance learning via internet for librarians working in central libraries of the ministry of health and medical education in tehran, iran. methods: in this descriptive survey data from...

Methods of alternative dispute resolution, including facilitation, can be used to identify and resolve areas of conflict. Facilitation was used by the University of Saskatchewan's Department of Family Medicine (Saskatoon division) after the strike by residents in July and August 1995 so as to allow optimal use of the remaining educational time. Through facilitation, experiences of the strike an...

Competency-based medical education (CBME), by definition, necessitates a robust and multifaceted assessment system. Assessment and the judgments or evaluations that arise from it are important at the level of the trainee, the program, and the public. When designing an assessment system for CBME, medical education leaders must attend to the context of the multiple settings where clinical trainin...

BACKGROUND Nutrition education is not an integral part of either undergraduate or postgraduate medical education. Computer-based instruction on nutrition might be an attractive and appropriate tool to fill this gap. OBJECTIVE The study objective was to assess the degree to which computer-based instruction on nutrition improves factual knowledge and practice behavior of general practitioner (G...

Over the past decade, education reform and teacher training projects have spent a great deal of effort to create and support sustainable, scalable online communities of education professionals. For the most part, those communities have been created in isolation from the existing local professional communities within which the teachers practice. We argue that focusing on online technology solely...

BACKGROUND Development and use of e-learning has not taken place to the same extent in military medicine in the Nordic countries. The aim was to explore the similarities and differences in education and training in military medicine for health professionals in the Nordic countries, and more specifically to identify the specific challenges regarding education and training of military medicine, a...

Service is central to the mission of a trauma surgeon and inextricably interwoven into our professional lives and activities. It is important to recognize the role that professional associations play in leveraging service as well as the need to continue to cultivate the ethic of service in medical education and in our training programs.

The purpose of this study was to assess the effects of a lower- and upper-body 10-week in-season resistance training program on explosive strength development in young basketball players. Twenty-five adolescent male athletes, aged 14-15 years old, were randomly assigned to an experimental group (EG; n = 15) and a control group (CG; n = 10). The subjects were assessed at baseline and after train...

extensively around the world for the preservice and inservice training of medical and allied health students and professionals. In several instances, such professionals have demonstrated improved knowledge scores and performance in the workplace upon completing distance education programs, but overall, there are few evaluation studies of education programs, distance or otherwise, that use rigor...