There are a number of e-Learning modalities, some or all of which may be used throughout a medical, dental, nursing or any other health related undergraduate curriculum. The purpose of this paper is to briefly describe what e-learning is along with some of the modalities, their common advantages and limitations. This publication ends with practical implications of these modalities for Pakistan.

BACKGROUND Implementation of World Health Organization case management guidelines for serious childhood illnesses remains a challenge in hospitals in low-income countries. Facilitators of and barriers to implementation of locally adapted clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) have not been explored. METHODS This ethnographic study based on the theory of participatory action research (PAR) was co...

BACKGROUND Non-communicable diseases and their risk factors are leading causes of disease burden in Iran and other middle-income countries. Little evidence exists for whether the primary health-care system can effectively manage non-communicable diseases and risk factors at the population level. Our aim was to examine the effectiveness of the Iranian rural primary health-care system (the Behvar...

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Background: Education focuses on strengthening the performance of employees while improvement prepares them for other positions in organization. Objectives: The present study aimed to identify dimensions and components quality education rural health workers Hormozgan, Iran. Methods: current applied-descriptive reviewed healthcare (called “behvarz” Persian) based document Delphi methods. To this...

In the United States of America, the Area Health Education Center (AHEC) system of training residents has allowed high-quality postgraduate education to flourish. This paper describes the evolution of the AHECs in the context of medical education over the past 50 years. The arrangements for programme administration and design, resident assessment and appraisal, training of trainers in education...

Background: Rural health workers (Behvarz) are considered health- care pioneers standing at the forefront of providing services for rural areas. Those providers need to be optimally educated throughout country. What can serve this purpose is an integrated high quality "education". Methods: The current descriptive research compared two situations education quality. To end 300, completed research...

In 2011, the Medical Curriculum Committee appointed a new working group to revise the standards to reflect national trends and recent developments in medical education. In the process, we retitled our competency-based curriculum The Nine Abilities. A major goal of the revision was to clarify the domains of our curriculum that focus on patient-centered care, advocacy, and professional developmen...