BACKGROUND As in other countries, the Irish Regulator for Pre-Hospital practitioners, the Pre-Hospital Emergency Care Council (PHECC), will introduce a Continuous Professional Competence (CPC) framework for all Emergency Medical Technicians (EMTs), Paramedics and Advanced Paramedics (APs). This framework involves EMTs participating in regular and structured training to maintain professional com...

PURPOSE/OBJECTIVES To describe the needs of testicular cancer survivors, develop a nurse-led workshop, and explore the experience of participation. RESEARCH APPROACH A systematic intervention development process was used to design a self-management workshop for cancer survivors, which then was evaluated qualitatively. SETTING Outpatient clinic in England. PARTICIPANTS 26 healthcare profes...

BACKGROUND The medical and nonmedical care of patients is the necessary skills in nursing profession. That it needs proper knowledge and attitude. Hence, it is important to promote nurses' knowledge and attitude by education based on need assessment. This study aimed to define the efficacy of a medical and nonmedical intervention educational workshop on nurses' knowledge and attitude until 3 mo...

BACKGROUND Health sciences research is increasingly focusing on big data applications, such as genomic technologies and precision medicine, to address key issues in human health. These approaches rely on biological data repositories and bioinformatic analyses, both of which are growing rapidly in size and scope. Libraries play a key role in supporting researchers in navigating these and other i...

INTRODUCTION Improving the health of the elderly must be based on their special needs that can be achieved through self-needs assessments through education, which is one of the most important tools in the field of health improvement. The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effect of need-oriented educational interventions on the general health of the elderly living in nursing homes. ...

BACKGROUND In order to incorporate new knowledge, skills and emerging concepts from dynamic fields of public health into ongoing courses reform of curriculums sounds necessary. Accordingly, this study was performed to modify health education curriculum of public health undergraduate level. MATERIALS AND METHODS Using Delphi technique, 18 health education lecturers from Tehran, Tabriz, Yazd, S...

INTRODUCTION Despite the importance of curriculum analysis for internal refinement of a programme, the approach for such a step in under-described in the literature. This article describes the analysis of the medical curriculum at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Gezira (FMUG). This analysis is crucial in the era of innovative medical education since introducing new curricula and curricul...

One of the most important factors in the development of societies, consider to traning. Identification and training needs analysis, is a prerequisite for a successful educational system and determine the training needs is considered the first step of educational planning. The purpose of this study was to investigate Educational needs of engineers, rice supervisors Engineering agricultural engin...

abstract one of the technologies that deal with efficient use of water is sprinkler irrigation systems. if farmers are to continue the use of sprinkler systems which may be crucial in agricultural development, educational programs should be tailored to their needs. therefore, the main purpose of this study was to analyze educational needs of farmers equipped with sprinkler irrigation. furthermo...

BACKGROUND There is compelling evidence to suggest that undergraduate surgical education may fail to provide appropriate instruction in basic surgical principles and skills. METHODS We completed a descriptive, cross-sectional survey of stakeholder groups (surgeon educators and recent medical school graduates) to assess the perceived relevance and learning for surgical principles, surgical ski...