Effective quality assurance actfvftfes that improve the delivery of health services to the publfc are of particular concern to the American College of Physicians. The College is committed to mafntafnfng hfgh standards of quality in the delivery of health services and believes that quality assurance mechanisms can be an effective means for achieving this goal. Some of the College's efforts to en...

Medical education is a leading step in improving the quality of health services all over the world; in recent years such an important issue has changed tremendously. New concepts and theories were introduced particularly in undergraduate medical education [1], these may include beyond curriculum education and the concept of problem based learning (PBL) [2,3]. The latter was introduced by Barrow...

Evaluation in continuing medical education (CME) is a traditional part of planning but is often not approached with the same level of sophistication as other parts of the teaching/learning transaction. An understanding of the models and schema in the literature allows broader and more reasoned thinking about effective evaluation. This article briefly describes and compares several models and sc...

Further development of public health education is critical to improve population health globally. A debate on the relevance and direction of some 400 schools of public health and many other related institutions around the world is therefore timely. Some argue that most public health schools set up in low-income countries blindly follow their counterparts in high-income countries, reproducing cl...

there is an escalating demand for geriatric oral healthcare in all developed and developing countries including india. two-thirds of the world’s elderly live in developing countries. this is a huge population that must receive attention from policy-makers who will be challenged by the changing demands for social and health services including oral health services. resources are limited thus rath...

objective: the  implementation of  family  psychoeducation at  the  service delivery level is not without difficulty. few mental health professionals receive special training to work with families especially in iran.   the aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of training health professionals in terms of their adherence to protocol. method: eight professionals (general prac...

At the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria, dental students are prepared not only to provide skilled care to individual patients, but also to assume responsibility for the community as a whole. In establishing the rural posting program for dental students, it was planned that all fifth year dental students would undertake a rural posting at Igboora, approximately 80 km from Ibadan, the capita...

OBJECTIVE The opinion about pharmacy services was studied using an instrument which measured satisfaction with pharmacy services. The main focus of the instrument was to assess patients' opinion and expectation of the present pharmacy services. METHOD The instrument contained 20 items, which were grouped based on their similarity into eight dimensions, namely, General satisfaction, Interperso...

After introductory comments and some words of caution regarding certain modern trends in medical education, I shall set down, as I see them, the items of prime importance in the education and character of those who aspire to high endeavor in medicine. Scripture tells us that the Lord spoke out of the whirlwind to his servant, Job, saying: "Who is this that darkeneth counsel by words without kno...