Hemophilia associations should be recommended for educational programs for patients and caregivers. Hematologists and nongovernmental organizations can work together for lifelong educational programs. Finally, we recommend holding patient workshops twice a year as well as publishing simple books or brochures in each local language to improve the knowledge and therefore the quality of life of th...

The Internet can be used as an instrument to serve the market for management education. Depending on the educational demands of customers, the usage of the Internet varies. In the segment of continuing education programs it serves to provide complete degree programs—such as an MBA— which are combined with residential modules. A higher degree of Internet usage can be found in the segment of shor...

OBJECTIVE To improve academic general pediatrics (AGP) fellowship programs by 1) developing curriculum guidelines and program standards and 2) creating a process for program review and consultation that might later be used for accreditation of AGP fellowship programs. METHODS This project of the Ambulatory Pediatric Association (APA) created 4 documents: AGP fellowship program requirements, c...

porpuse: this study aims to identify factors affecting rural women's participation in educational- extension programs of the jihad- agriculture service centers in amol township, in order to be able to take positive steps in facilitating and accelerating the process of rural and agricultural development, as the result of the improvement in their level of participation. methodology: considering t...

The growth of online programs offered by U.S. educational institutions in the past decade has surpassed expectations. This growth has fueled research in online education, which though diverse does not address management of online teaching. Effective management of online teaching can lead to quality programs and enhanced student learning. In this paper we propose a framework that outlines how th...

Education is a cornerstone of antimicrobial stewardships programs, because 50% of inappropriate antimicrobial prescriptions are a consequence of an imbalance between the high levels of knowledge required for the appropriate use of antibiotics and the scarce training offered to medical specialists. For this reason, programs optimizing antimicrobial (PROA) are essentially based on support and edu...

In view of the likelihood that the complexity of care required by those admitted to nursing homes will continue to increase, an expert consensus study was conducted to reach consensus on the competencies which distinguish baccalaureate-educated registered nurses from other nursing staff working in nursing homes. Thirty-one international experts, identified through literature and our professiona...

BACKGROUND Recent surveys suggest few emergency medicine (EM) training programs have formal evidence-based medicine (EBM) or journal club curricula. Our primary objective was to describe the methods of EBM training in Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) EM residencies. Secondary objectives were to explore attitudes regarding current educational practices including e-learn...