RATIONALE, AIMS AND OBJECTIVES The prenatal education promotes the empowerment of parents during pregnancy and postnatal period. This study aimed to assess the quality of educational sessions held in the third trimester of pregnancy as part of the parenting education programme for Spanish National Health System in Madrid. METHODS The design is a cross-sectional study in 41 primary care centre...

BACKGROUND Regular physical activity practice has been widely recommended for promoting health, but the physical activity levels remain low in the population. Therefore, the study of interventions to promote physical activity is essential. OBJECTIVE To present the methodology of two physical activity interventions from the "Ambiente Ativo" ("Active Environment") project. METHODS 12-month no...

OBJECTIVE To examine the effectiveness of an intervention that combined continuing medical education with process improvement methods to implement "office systems" to improve the delivery of preventive care to children. DESIGN Randomised trial in primary care practices. SETTING Private paediatric and family practices in two areas of North Carolina. PARTICIPANTS Random sample of 44 practic...

OBJECTIVE To assess the respective roles of general pediatricians and pediatric subspecialists in the provision of primary pediatric care. DESIGN AND METHODS A practice characteristics questionnaire that included questions about primary care was sent to a random sample of 1616 board-certified and board-eligible active Fellows of the American Academy of Pediatrics; 1145 (70.9%) responded. Anal...

The purpose of this study was to describe the development, implementation, and evaluation of an educational program in family medicine for general practitioners in Saudi Arabia from 2009 to 2011. A continuing medical education program called Family Medicine Education (FAME) was developed with 7 modules each consisting of 12-14 hours of teaching to be delivered in 3 day blocks, over 45 days. Twe...

I n his 2008 research letter, Ebell 1 highlights the relationship between residency fill rates and physician specialty salary (r=0.82). Mullan referred to this as the “white-follows-green law.” In the same issue, Salsberg et al reported that graduate medical education (GME) expansion since funding caps were put in place favored nonprimary care specialties and was associated with a reduction in ...

INTRODUCTION Performance Improvement Continuing Medical Education (PI CME) is a mechanism for joining quality improvement (QI) in health care to continuing medical education (CME) systems together. Although QI practices and CME approaches have been recognized for years, what emerges from their integration is largely unfamiliar, because it requires the collaboration of CME providers and stakehol...

The Editorial Board of JNMA is proud to launch yet another reader-oriented monthly column entitled "Radiology Rounds", which will be orchestrated by Dr. James Collins, longtime NMA member and professor of radiology at UCLA. Dr Collins and his colleagues across the country will endeavor to bring us a variety of interesting cases with both an educational and clinical message that will undoubtedly...

It is universally agreed concept that education is a corner s‌tone for socio economic transformation.  Education has been recognized as weapon to fight backwardness, poverty and illiteracy for ages. Experience have shown that all the good benefit of education has been assured only when there is quality education. However, there are visible indicators that education quality has not been s‌till a...