BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Many residency training programs offer Balint groups as a means of encouraging residents in reflective practice. Residency Balint groups around the country are variable with regard to format when compared to the recommended structure. This paper describes a resident Balint group in which the residents initially expressed strong dissatisfaction with the group, although ...

BACKGROUND Ethiopia has a significant paucity of available health-care workers. Despite the increasing number of medical schools, there are not enough physician instructors. Furthermore, availability and standardization of postgraduate training are lacking. Modalities of e-learning have been shown to be successful when used to impart medical education in other resource-limited countries. The Em...

One area of pediatric care that strongly presents an opportunity for anticipatory guidance and clinical intervention is that of toilet training. Because most toilet training problems presenting to the health care practitioner reflect inappropriate training efforts and parental pressure, providers can, by consulting with parents, elucidate and address misconceptions parents have about the toilet...

PROBLEM Falls from heights in residential construction are common, especially among inexperienced workers. METHODS We conducted a comprehensive needs assessment to determine gaps in the school-based apprentice carpenters' fall prevention training. A team of carpenter instructors and researchers revised the fall prevention training to fill these gaps. Apprentice evaluation and feedback guided ...

a survay on the effectiveness of the training courses on the nurses of tabriz social security organization hospitals    ghaleei a [1]     received: 20 oct , 2013 accepted: 8 jan , 2014   abstract:   background & aims: promotion and development of organizations and institutes depends on the development of knowledge, skill, behavior, and human source attitude. according to this, most of organizat...

hajj and pilgrimage is the most important source of providing human resource for pilgrimage caravans. without a doubt, the heads of this organization need to be trained. based on this need, this study seeks to identify and rank the training needs of hajj caravan actors. the population of this study includes all the managers/administrators of hajj caravans in 2013.a sample of 222 managers/admini...