Posts Tagged ‘national’
General Practitioners Participate In National Pain Summit On 11 March 2010 In Canberra
Concerns about the alarming number of Australians suffering from persisting pain during their lifetime underpins the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners’ (RACGP) participation at the National Pain Summit, which will be held in Canberra at Parliament House on 11 March 2010…
The resident-as-teacher educational challenge: a needs assessment survey at the National Autonomous University of Mexico Faculty of Medicine
Background:
The role of residents as educators is increasingly recognized, since it impacts residents, interns, medical students and other healthcare professionals. A widespread implementation of resident-as-teacher courses in developed countries’ medical schools has occurred, with variable results. There is a dearth of information about this theme in developing countries. The National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) Faculty of Medicine has more than 50% of the residency programs’ physician population in Mexico. This report describes a needs assessment survey for a resident as teacher program at our institution.
Methods:
A cross-sectional descriptive survey was developed based on a review of the available literature and discussion by an expert multidisciplinary committee. The goal was to identify the residents’ attitudes, academic needs and preferred educational strategies regarding resident-as-teacher activities throughout the residency. The survey was piloted and modified accordingly. The paper anonymous survey was sent to 7,685 residents, the total population of medical residents in UNAM programs in the country.
Results:
There was a 65.7 % return rate (5,186 questionnaires), a broad and representative sample of the student population. The residents felt they had knowledge and were competent in medical education, but the majority felt a need to improve their knowledge and skills in this discipline. The majority (92.5 %) felt that their role as educators of medical students, interns and other residents was important/very important. They estimated that 45.5 % of their learning came from other residents. Ninety percent stated that it was necessary to be trained in teaching skills. The themes identified to include in the educational intervention were mostly clinically oriented. The educational strategies in order of preference were interactive lectures with a professor, small groups with a moderator, printed material for self-study and homework, material available in a website for self-learning, and small group web-based learning.
Conclusions:
There is a large unmet need to implement educational interventions to improve residents’ educational skills in postgraduate educational programs in developing countries. Most perceived needs of residents are practical and clinically oriented, and they prefer traditional educational strategies. Resident as teachers educational interventions need to be designed taking into account local needs and resources.
Protecting Patients: Study Shows That Johns Hopkins Flu Vaccination Rates Are Twice The National Average
A campaign that makes seasonal flu vaccinations for hospital staff free, convenient, ubiquitous and hard to ignore succeeds fairly well in moving care providers closer to a state of “herd” immunity and protecting patients from possible infection transmitted by health care workers, according to results of a survey at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. In a report published in the Feb…
Johns Hopkins Flu Vaccination Rates Twice National Average
A campaign that makes seasonal flu vaccinations for hospital staff free, convenient, ubiquitous and hard to ignore succeeds fairly well in moving care providers closer to a state of “herd” immunity and protecting patients from possible infection transmitted by health care workers, according to results of a survey at The Johns Hopkins Hospital. In a report published in the Feb…
CMS Approves Three National Organizations To Accredit Suppliers Of Advanced Imaging Services
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is designating three national accreditation organizations – the American College of Radiology (ACR), the Intersocietal Accreditation Commission (IAC), and The Joint Commission (TJC) – to accredit suppliers furnishing the technical component (TC) of advanced diagnostic imaging procedures…
Brown: Mass. Voters Shouldn’t Have To Pay For National Health Reform
The Washington Post: “While many are describing the election to fill the late Edward M. Kennedy’s Senate seat as a referendum on national health-care reform, the Republican candidate rode to victory on a message more nuanced than flat-out resistance to universal health coverage: Massachusetts residents, he said, already had insurance and should not have to pay for it elsewhere…
CMS Issues Annual Report On National Health Spending
Nominal health spending in the United States grew 4.4 percent in 2008, to $2.3 trillion or $7,681 per person. This was the slowest rate of growth since the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services started officially tracking expenditures in 1960. Despite slower growth, however, health care spending continued to outpace overall nominal economic growth, which grew by 2…
Validation Of A Modified National Institutes Of Health Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index To Assess Genitourinary Pain In Both Men And Women
UroToday.com – Generally, assessments of symptoms in men and women with BPS and chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome have used separate instruments. Clemens and colleagues from the Urologic Pelvic Pain Collaborative Research Network of the NIDDK modified the validated and widely used NIH-Chronic Prostatitis Symptom Index to permit its use in men and women…
CDC Kicks Off National Travelers’ Health Public Awareness Campaign
Every holiday season, millions of Americans travel through the nation’s airports, seaports, and train stations to spend time with loved ones. Special holiday get-togethers – and traveling itself – bring people close together but also provide an ideal way for illness to spread. To help travelers avoid the flu this holiday season, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention today launched its largest ever public awareness campaign about staying healthy while traveling.
Pharmaceutical Society Of Australia Supports Draft National Pain Strategy
The Pharmaceutical Society of Australia (PSA) has welcomed the release of the initial draft of the National Pain Strategy. PSA National Vice President and the only pharmacy representative on to the National Pain Summit Leaders’ Meeting, Dr Lisa Nissen, said that PSA supported the intent of the draft strategy and looked forward to seeing the strategy finalised.
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