Many senior doctors have had little in the way of formal ethics training, but express considerable interest in extending their education in this area. This paper is the report of an initiative in continuing medical education in which doctors were introduced to narrative ethics. We review the theoretical basis of narrative ethics, and the structure of and response to the two-day workshop.

This paper shows that policy reforms in Vocational Education and Training in Australia since the late 1980s developed with the specific intention of reforming the official pedagogic discourse and associated pedagogic spaces that existed at that time. The discourses of flexible delivery, flexible learning, online learning, e-learning and blended learning established pedagogic spaces that are des...

Continuing medical education sessions are often poorly attended by general practitioners. One reason may be that these traditionally consist of lectures by hospital consultants with a strong theoretical bias which may have little relevance to the learning needs of general practitioners. To compare the learning styles of teachers and learners in general practice, learning style questionnaires we...

The relationship between industry and clinicians in educational programmes needs to be regulated. Industry may be best placed to deliver educational programmes in "craft" related specialties and particularly in areas where device implantation/technology based therapy has a major clinical role. The authors supervise industry sponsored clinical teaching at a purpose built independent teaching fac...

background: documentation is one of the nurses’ professional tasks, which is an important component of medical evidence and patient’s record. finding effective teaching methods for enhancing nurses’ ability in documentation can be helpful. aim: this study was performed to determine the effect of continuing education program on nurse’s knowledge, attitude and performance about documentation. met...

They made a big deal about those two birds. Apparently Betty and her mate were the subjects of a test to determine whether crows could learn how to extract meat from a test tube with a wire. The birds were presented with two wires, one straight and the other bent into a hook. The experiment did not last long. As soon as the crows learned that only the bent wire was effective, the dominant male ...

PURPOSE In the past decade, we have witnessed increasing numbers of individuals entering the field of epidemiology. With the increase also has come a diversity of training and paths by which individuals entered the field. The purpose of this survey was characterization of the epidemiology workforce, its job diversity, and continuing education needs. METHODS The Minority Affairs and Membership...