Aim: Postgraduate education systems for medical professionals are constantly developing worldwide. The study aims to assess the knowledge and attitude toward importance of continuing professional development emergency personnel. Methodology Design: Quantitative method was conducted among Georgia "GEO Hospitals" regional clinics' medicine department physicians nurses. Study design cross-sectiona...

It is important for Africa to blaze its own unique path in terms of developing ILS qualification models that would be realistic and relevant to the African context and, importantly, add value to African library and information services which have a crucial role to play in the growth and development of the continent. Towards this end, a research project is currently being undertaken in South Afr...

With internationally growing attention to the quality of higher education, a formal teaching qualification has become at many universities requirement for non-tenured staff be eligible tenure. To obtain qualification, participants in this case study reflect portfolio on their teacher identity by describing what they think is important and guides choices make. Based thematic analysis 47 portfoli...

DRS. DAVIS AND WILSON were the first of a long line of medical men who attended, or were appointed to attend, Queen Victoria throughout her lifetime of nearly eighty-two years. Also assisting at the birth was a midwife, Friaulein Siebold, who, although she also held a medical qualification, did not sign the bulletin. It is an interesting coincidence that the Frilulein also attended at the birth...

In Mali, a poor sub-Saharan country, maternity referral systems were implemented to combat the still-high rates of maternal mortality. This qualitative study was aimed at understanding the relationships between the qualification of staff in community health centres, the organization of services, and the management of pregnant women in the maternity referral system in Kayes, a rural region of Ma...

In 1998 the Stan Ackermans Institute at the Technical University Eindhoven (TU/e), the Netherlands, founded the User System Interaction (USI) Design Program. It is a two-year post-master program leading to the degree of `Master of Technological Design` (MTD). This USI design program requires an internationally recognized master degree or equivalent professional qualification. The content of the...

Internet enables multiple organizations to share their learning expertise enabling the generation of virtual learning communities. However, current Learning Management Systems do not allow real time access to the experiences offered by other peers, which is causing a problem of technological isolation. This paper presents a case study of generating a community of e-learning for corporate staff ...

Three new direct-service staff participated in a program that used a video model to train target skills needed to conduct a discrete-trial session. Percentage accuracy in completing a discrete-trial teaching session was evaluated using a multiple baseline design across participants. During baseline, performances ranged from a mean of 12% to 63% accuracy. During video modeling, there was an imme...