In the process of acquiring new skills, physicians-in-training may expose patients to harm because they lack the required experience, knowledge and technical skills. Yet, most teaching hospitals use inexperienced residents to care for high-acuity patients in complex and dynamic environments and provide limited supervision from experienced clinicians. Multiple efforts in the last few years have ...

This paper contributes to public institutions with the adaptation of a performance evaluation tool based on private companies. The objective is to demonstrate how the impact of an educational activity might be measured in the economic value added for the society of a public university hospital. The paper was divided in four parts, despite the introductory and methodological aspects and the fina...

BACKGROUND It is believed that the type of educational environment in teaching hospitals may affect the performance of medical knowledge base among residents, but this has not yet been proven. OBJECTIVE We aimed to investigate the association between the hospital educational environment and the performance of the medical knowledge base among resident physicians in Japanese teaching hospitals....

THERE HAS been a great increase in postgraduate educational activity in this country, as well as in America, over the past few years. In this country postgraduate educational programmes are being organised in a number of hospitals, and the district hospitals often lead university hospitals in this field. This paper seeks to outline and discuss the programme of one district hospital, with specia...

background : the purpose of this study was to explore nurses’ attitudes to the barriers of patient education as a right for getting information based on work situation of nurses, educational facilities in hospitals, and patients’ situation. methods : the study was conducted using a cross-sectional design. the populations consisted of 240 nurses affiliated in the educational hospitals. the data ...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To determine whether an educational initiative could decrease rates of ventilator-associated pneumonia in a regional health-care system. SETTING Two teaching hospitals (one adult, one pediatric) and two community hospitals in an integrated health system. DESIGN Preintervention and postintervention observational study. PATIENTS Patients admitted to the four participating h...