Advisor: Peter Barton Hutt

The purpose of the paper is to design a Continuing Education Model for Industrial Arts teachers Irkutsk Oblast. article considers need develop regional in “Industrial Arts” subject area, describes positive experience teaching personnel development region. authors have presented project structure area Oblast that includes target, technological and result-evaluating components. Special place give...

This paper reports on the findings of a prospective exploratory study related to nurses' self-reports of continuing professional education access and support. The data were gathered by two postal surveys undertaken in 2004 and 2007 each which sampled 3000 nurses of the 30,000 nurse members of the industrial body - Queensland Nurses' Union. The response rates were 44.9% and 39.7% for 2004 and 20...

The establishment of a continuing medical education system for established Principals in a semi-rural area is described. The essential requirement is a 'link man' in each general practice in the area. Clinical tutors, course organisers and regional advisers are all actively involved to produce a regional educational policy.

The structure and aim of continuing medical education (CME) is shifting from the passive transmission of knowledge to a competency-based model focused on professional development. Self-directed learning is emerging as the foremost educational method for advancing competency-based CME. In a field marked by the constant expansion of knowledge, self-directed learning allows physicians to tailor th...

This paper proposes an action research model as basis for the management of change in continuing professional distance education (CPDE). The model proposed emerged from the need to manage a complex change process from traditional paper-based distance education to e-learning. In order to illustrate and support the model proposed, this paper describes and discusses such a change process in a CPDE...

Continuing medical education (CME) is an indispensable part of maintaining physicians' competency. Since attending conferences requires clinical absenteeism and is not universally available, online learning has become popular. The purpose of this study is to conduct a retrospective analysis examining the creation process of an anesthesia website for adherence to the published guidelines and, in...