This paper delineates a preventive approach to early childhood mental health by preparing the workforce to provide relational, sensitive care to young children ages 0-5. One of the most prevalent issues in early childhood is behavioral challenges and the inability of young children to regulate themselves. This leads to an expulsion rate in early childhood (3-4 times higher than K-12 expulsion r...

A History ofMedicine in South Carolina, 1825-1900, by JOSEPH I. WARING, Charleston, South Carolina Medical Association, 1967, pp. xv, 366, illus., $7.70. In this second volume Waring has continued the history of South Carolina from the graduation in 1825 of the first class at the Medical College. He deals separately with plantation medicine, the growth of hospitals, medical education, professio...

Continuing professional education (CPE) plays an important role in continuing professional development of pharmacists for providing quality pharmaceutical care but also to maintain professional and organizational vitality and meet changing community/population needs. The study objective was to describe and understand factors of importance in selection of CPE credit hours among Upper Midwest pha...

The massive shortage of skilled health professionals in many parts of the world is a critical constraint to achieving the goal of universal health coverage. This shortfall reflects a generalized failure of leadership: a chronic misalignment between the direction of health professional education and the health goals of society. The Medical Education Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and Nurse Educat...

Dear Dr. Alvares: My colleagues and I wish to bring to the attention of your readers “A Whole System Approach to Problem-Based Learning in Dental, Medical, and Veterinary Sciences: A Guide to Important Variables,” available at www.manchester.ac.uk/ceebl/ resources/resourcepacks/pblsystemapproach_v1.pdf. Its aim is to illustrate variables that affect the acceptability, effectiveness, or efficien...

t i R r o t o t H i P S c E w t a The times, they are a-changin’ ”—a familiar vocal rerain—is a sentiment that applies to the field of continuing edical education (CME). The provision of high quality ME to improve the care of patients with cardiovascular isease remains the core mission of the American College of ardiology (ACC). Fundamental changes across the landcape of CME, however, have crea...

In this review, we will attempt to envision not just emerging changes in training in each of our specialties, but also some of the general directions in which the field of postgraduate medical education will evolve. Although the formal training programs in our professional areas are at distinctive phases in the transition from a traditional time-limited apprenticeship model to one that is focus...

This qualitative interpretivist study analyzed the interrelationships among professional practice, the knowledge gained in continuing professional education programs, and the context of employment. Eighty semi-structured, tape-recorded interviews were conducted with social workers, lawyers, adult educators, and nurses who had attended continuing education programs 9-24 months previously. Findin...