High-stakes student testing, accountability for students' outcomes, new educational trends, and revised curricula and standards are only a few of the reasons that teachers must learn to teach complex material with skilled and intentional practices. As a result, professional development for educators is in critical demand. Nevertheless, research in the field of professional development indicates...

Office of Academic Affairs and Education and Department of Medicine, Division of Gastroenterology, University of Connecticut School of Medicine, Farmington, Connecticut; Division of Gastroenterology, Department of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California; Henry D. Janowitz Division of Gastroenterology, and The Brookdale Department of Geriatrics and Palliative...

BACKGROUND While attraction of doctors to rural settings is increasing in Mali, there is concern for their retention. An orientation course for young practicing rural doctors was set up in 2003 by a professional association and a NGO. The underlying assumption was that rurally relevant training would strengthen doctors' competences and self-confidence, improve job satisfaction, and consequently...

Supreme Court Justices' uniform professional backgrounds have drawn increasing criticism. Yet it is unclear how diverse professional training would affect the Court's decisions. This Article offers the first empirical analysis of how Justices with diverse professional training vote: It examines a unique period when Justices with formal legal education sat with Justices who entered the professio...

Due to changes in the delivery of health care and in society, medicine became aware of serious threats to its professionalism. Beginning in the mid-1990s it was agreed that if professionalism was to survive, an important step would be to teach it explicitly to students, residents, and practicing physicians. This has become a requirement for medical schools and training programs in many countrie...

In this review, we will attempt to envision not just emerging changes in training in each of our specialties, but also some of the general directions in which the field of postgraduate medical education will evolve. Although the formal training programs in our professional areas are at distinctive phases in the transition from a traditional time-limited apprenticeship model to one that is focus...

UNLABELLED Theme: Child protection and managing risk. INTRODUCTION On child abuse the protection of children requires cooperation between health and education professionals. OBJECTIVES To relate the sociodemographic and training context variables with the perception of teachers about child abuse. METHODS A descriptive-correlational and cross-sectional study. A sample of 172 teachers of th...

In recent decades, reflexivity has received much attention in the professional education and training literature, especially in the public health and health promotion fields. Despite general agreement on the importance of reflexivity, there appears to be no consensus on how to assess reflexivity or to conceptualize the different forms developed among professionals and participants of training p...

This article provides a historical review of certified occupational therapy assistant (COTA) education, professional roles, career mobility, and professional development. The evolution of COTA education from 2 hospital-based, 12-week training programs to the current 162 accredited 2-year college degree or professional certificate programs is examined. The expansion of the COTA role from well-de...

As part of wider reforms within the pharmaceutical sector, the pharmaceutical care concept has been introduced in the Republic of Macedonia. This article provides discussion on current opportunities and challenges which pharmacy practice face in Macedonia. The emphasis is on three prerequisites for the implementation of pharmaceutical care including: organization of pharmaceutical services, leg...