OBJECTIVES There is growing appreciation of the value of early preparation of future medical educators. Staff development programmes, conferences and workshops pertaining to the training of educators may be crucial to the pursuit of a school's larger educational mission to educate students, doctors and scholars and to provide comprehensive knowledge, research, patient care and service. This stu...

Regional as well as centralized authorities around Europe develop and offer an increased variety of online public services, which may be particularly useful for small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in rural areas. Nevertheless, a major barrier towards their adoption has been identified to be the low degree of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) penetration that is usually recorded i...

The skills of early child care providers have been shown to influence how well child care experiences meet the needs of young children and the overall quality of this care. One influence on the skills of providers is their formal and informal training and education. The term professional development refers to all types of facilitated learning opportunities, both formal educational opportunities...

in the area of youth health, peers education is an approach to health promotion. assess the training needs of peers educators clarifies the components, values, and quality of training protocols. aim to that we conducted a participatory educational needs assessment of youth peer educators.involving youth and key informants in direct collaboration with research team, a qualitative approach was pl...

Training anatomic and clinical pathology residents in the principles of bioinformatics is a challenging endeavor. Most residents receive little to no formal exposure to bioinformatics during medical education, and most of the pathology training is spent interpreting histopathology slides using light microscopy or focused on laboratory regulation, management, and interpretation of discrete labor...

background: training teachers through educational programs are necessary for fulfilling health science teaching competencies, short-term workshop has variously reported as an influential training program. purpose: the purpose was to determine the effects of educational workshops on teaching performance of medical teachers. methods: a 29-item questionnaire containing demographic information, and...