Medical residents (postgraduate trainees in a medical specialty) fulfil an important role in the Dutch health care system. They take their share of the responsibility for efficient patient care in hospitals, mental health care centres, rehabilitation centres and other medical institutions. Medical residents see the period of postgraduate training as a phase in which finding a balance between tr...

This lecture deals with training nets of cubic nodes and introduces another major (quite general) algorithm-Reward Penalty. Insight into how we might train nets of cubic nodes is provided by considering the problems associated with generalisation in these nets. We then go on to consider feedback or recurrent nets from the point of view of their implementing iterated feedforward nets (recall thi...

Background Nowadays the training in mitral valve (MV) surgery is competitive and difficult due to reasons including limited exposure, complexity of 3D structure of MV, complexity of surgical techniques used in MV repair and low rate of MV surgery in some centres. Therefore low-fidelity simulation in MV surgery becomes a necessity. We compare between the training in dry and wet lab simulation in...

E-learning and tele-training have been evolved over time from a newborn trend for complementing the learning process to a major form of education and training for supporting mainly geographically scattered users. Learning and training, can be applied to a wide variety of fields and areas, each of which is accompanied by some special characteristics related to the field of learning/training, to ...

OBJECTIVES Variations in radiological examination procedures and patient load lead to variations in standards of care related to patient safety and healthcare quality. To understand the status of safety measures to protect patients undergoing radiological examinations at residency training hospitals in Taiwan, a follow-up survey evaluating the full spectrum of diagnostic radiology procedures wa...

OBJECTIVE To test the impact of training for educators on the health of children enrolled in public and philanthropic day-care nurseries. DESIGN A randomised, institutional, non-blind clinical trial was conducted. An educational intervention was performed in four day-care centres and the control group consisted of four other day-care centres. Interviews with the mothers, collection of blood f...

Malnutrition is common among children aged 6-24 months in developing countries. It increases the risk of mortality. Interventions to improve infant-feeding hold the promise of reducing malnutrition among these children. A study in Brazil has shown the success of training in communication and counselling skills among health workers in improving the nutritional status of young children. Questions...

PURPOSE OF THE STUDY Glaucoma, a chronic non-communicable disease, and leading cause of irreversible blindness worldwide is a public health problem in Nigeria, with a prevalence of 5.02% in people aged ≥40 years. The purpose of this nationwide survey was to assess Nigerian ophthalmologists' practice patterns and their constraints in managing glaucoma. STUDY DESIGN Ophthalmologists were sent a...