Introduction: Continuing the medical education has already been a concern, as a universal principle and necessity in the universe, so that the World Health Organization (WHO) has specified it as an urgent necessity. This research objective was the assay of priorities of continuing training for global practitioners at Kashan University of Medical Sciences. Methods and Materials: In this cross-se...

The state of Wisconsin recently launched a Research-to-Practice Initiative. One aspect of the Wisconsin initiative was to survey Wisconsin-Certified Alcohol and other Drug Abuse Counselors (CADCs) to assess their attitudes, reported practices, and resources in regard to the integration of research and practice. The sample for the present study included 366 CADCs. Of the 366 respondents, 62 perc...

Traditionally, education and training in pathology has been delivered using textbooks, glass slides and conventional microscopy. Over the last two decades, the number of web-based pathology resources has expanded dramatically with centralized pathological resources being delivered to many students simultaneously. Recently, whole slide imaging technology allows glass slides to be scanned and vie...

BACKGROUND Advance care planning is a process of discussion that enables competent adults to express their wishes about end-of-life care through periods of decisional incapacity. Although a number of studies have documented social workers' attitudes toward, knowledge about, and involvement in advance care planning, the information is fragmented. The purpose of this review was to provide a narra...

PROBLEM Falls from heights in residential construction are common, especially among inexperienced workers. METHODS We conducted a comprehensive needs assessment to determine gaps in the school-based apprentice carpenters' fall prevention training. A team of carpenter instructors and researchers revised the fall prevention training to fill these gaps. Apprentice evaluation and feedback guided ...

Recent calls for an expanded perspective on medical education and training include focusing on complexities of professional identity formation (PIF). Medical educators are challenged to facilitate the active constructive, integrative developmental process of PIF within standardized and personalized and/or formal and informal curricular approaches. How can we best support the complex iterative P...

The present study discusses the concepts of education and training, while also highlighting the paradigm wars of the positivistic and naturalistic views, beginning with the age of ancient philosophies and continuing to the latest era of postmodernism. Additionally, language education is examined considering the linguistic and educational fundamentals which all need to be based on and combined b...

Electronic legal education involves the use of information, communication and instructional technologies to enhance students learning of the law and to provide law teachers with environments and tools for teaching the law. Since the beginning of the Eighties these types of technologies were introduced in legal education at Law schools and faculties of Law. The first applications in this field w...

The new millennium has seen significant changes in the operational environment and in the nature of the enemy. Training must likewise change to prepare our military to meet the challenges associated with this new paradigm. One of the current Department of Defense initiatives in education and training is the move to convert instructor-led courses to distributed learning. However, creating distri...

With a rising older person population with increasing life expectancies, the demand for care homes will increase in the future. Older people in care homes are particularly vulnerable due to their dependencies related to cognitive and/or functional self-care challenges. Although many care homes provide good care, maltreatment and abuse of older people can and does occur. One major step in preven...