Training of non-psychiatrist medical professionals in psychiatry through short courses is an urgent need recognised by the National Mental Health Policy. In order to improve the training programmes over a time, a suitable method of evaluation of the effect of training is essential. Such a method of evaluation was developed at NIMHANS using clinical vignettes. These vignettes were successfully u...

This article explores the empowerment of women through vocational training programmes. The empowerment of rural women is seen as the only means of poverty eradication. Any economic step of empowering of these poor women will make provision to link the nature of empowerment with the skill training required for efficiently running it. It also discusses the outcome of vocational training, type of ...

Crew resource management (CRM) is a training concept for optimising the use of all available resources (e.g. human, technology, organisation) within high-risk operations. It has its origins in aviation, but the principles and methods of CRM are already used in many other industries, like medicine or fire service. In order to raise the reliability of teams working in these industries, it is impo...

Formal training programmes in psychiatry for general practitioners (GPs) by Psychiatrists so far reported have involved MBBS graduates. But, a considerable proportion of registered medical practitioners who serve the community are non-MBBS about whose training needs, no experience is yet available. This paper describes a training programme in which an attempt was made to know the training needs...

Urology training today is still largely based on the apprenticeship model. This means that frequently procedural skill training is patient based. Currently, there are more and more calls to introduce new training methods and models to supplement the traditional educational approach,[1-4] partly owing to legal and ethical objections raised against patient-based training. A report entitled ‘Unint...

The Curse and Blessing of Training the Unemployed in a Changing Economy: The Case of East Germany After Unification We analyse the effects of government-sponsored training for the unemployed conducted during East German transition. For the microeconometric analysis, we use a new, large and informative administrative database that allows us to use matching methods to reduce potential selection b...

Conclusion This is the first study that has proposed a set of essential clinical procedural skills for the training of family physicians in South Africa. The findings will act as a benchmark for programmes in South Africa and through the new initiative of ‘FaMEC in Africa’ may influence curriculum development in other African countries. They may be used as a guide for curriculum planning, as a ...

This systematic review describes the effect of exercise training on physical performance in frail older people. Randomized controlled trials were identified from searches in PubMed, EMBASE and CENTRAL from January 1995 through August 2007. Two reviewers independently screened the trials for eligibility, rated their quality, and extracted data. Randomized controlled trials that examined the effe...

The San Francisco, California, bay area is subject to continuous seismic risk. One particular response has been the development of community-based training programmes designed to teach residents basic emergency response skills. Citizens are taught emergency medical techniques, search and rescue, fire suppression and other fundamental response skills. Current estimates in the Bay Area place the ...

The Effects of Vocational Training Programmes on the Duration of Unemployment in Eastern Germany This paper focuses on the effects of vocational training programmes on the duration of unemployment in Eastern Germany. We use information from administrative data of the Federal Employment Office. To allow for observable and possible unobservable influences we apply a multivariate mixed proportiona...