1 al said that knowledge acquisition does not necessarily mean successful application of the knowledge. What is more important is “Knowledge in action” and not the knowledge languishing in books or minds. Academic professionals need to possess not just the domainspecific knowledge but also greatly the ability to apply expeditiously knowledge and know-how, where and when needed. The gap between ...

OBJECTIVES Despite the importance of community health workers (CHWs) in strategies to reduce health disparities and the call to enhance their roles in research, little information exists on how to prepare CHWs involved in community-academic initiatives (CAIs). Therefore, the New York University Prevention Research Center piloted a CAI-CHW training program. METHODS We applied a core competency...

BACKGROUND Cultural competency can be understood as those learned skills which help us understand cultural differences and ease communication between people who have different ways of understanding health, sickness and the body. Recently, medical schools have begun to recognise a need for cultural competency training. However, few reports have been published that articulate and evaluate cultura...

This paper describes a federally funded training program developed to prepare entry-level occupational therapists to deliver early intervention services. The program had two phases. Phase I was designed to provide occupational therapy supervisors with advanced skills for supervising and teaching the students about the provision of early intervention services. These skills were specific supervis...

The aim of this study was to create simulation-based tests with credible pass/fail standards for 2 different fidelities of colonoscopy models. Only competent practitioners should perform colonoscopy. Reliable and valid simulation-based tests could be used to establish basic competency in colonoscopy before practicing on patients. Twenty-five physicians (10 consultants with endoscopic experience...

BACKGROUND Almost half of pediatric third-year residents surveyed in 2000 had never led a resuscitation event. With increasing restrictions on residency work hours and a decline in patient volume in some hospitals, there is potential for fewer opportunities. PURPOSE Our primary purpose was to test the hypothesis that an unannounced mock resuscitation in a high-fidelity in-situ simulation trai...

In response to the continuing need for competent child welfare professionals, a largemid-western university’s College of SocialWork collaborated with a public childwelfare agency to design and implement a one year,Title IV-E-funded training opportunity for second-yearMSWstudents. Student outcomes, including knowledge acquisition, attitudes about child welfare, and field of post-graduation emplo...