background and purpose: problem based medical education had been useful in education of medical sciences students. the objective is the determination of effects of problem based medical education on occupational health students' learning. methods: this study was a semi-experimental study. by using the curriculum of ministry of health, occupational toxicology course had been taught based on a pr...

The training of occupational physicians has recently undergone profound changes, is still changing, and in the future we may see some of the developments envisaged here. All four of the phases of training are changing: undergraduate, general professional training (basic specialist training), higher specialist training and, finally, continuing education which is maintained throughout professiona...

OBJECTIVES The purpose of this study was to describe current trends in parent education on infant feeding in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and to clarify the role of the occupational therapist in educating parents. METHOD Questionnaires were mailed to 190 neonatologists across the United States who were asked to forward it to a NICU occupational therapist. The questionnaire gathered...

patients and methods the study was designed as descriptive and comparative. the study sample consisted of 420 working and 482 nonworking adolescents (n = 902) aged 15 - 20 years, who were randomly recruited from two occupational education centers in istanbul, turkey and two high schools (formal educations) in the same district. results adolescent subjective wellbeing scale (asws) total mean (sd...

Evaluation in continuing medical education (CME) is a traditional part of planning but is often not approached with the same level of sophistication as other parts of the teaching/learning transaction. An understanding of the models and schema in the literature allows broader and more reasoned thinking about effective evaluation. This article briefly describes and compares several models and sc...

OBJECTIVES The study was conducted with the aim of evaluating applied occupational health teaching for final-year medical students at Hacettepe University, Faculty of Medicine. METHODS The study included all sixth grade medical students (n=293) during one academic year. Pre- and post-training tests were used to assess the magnitude of change in knowledge and attitude of students on occupation...

Processes and conditions of production may produce unhealthy effects. Both must therefore be included in the education of health care personnel. Vocational training in occupational health at Kocaeli University Medical School, Turkey aims to demonstrate students that occupational health is a specific and important area of work within the context of primary health care. This research is a cross-s...