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Education Model (education + model)

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Medical Sciences60%

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The past, present and future of nurse education in Poland: stages, conditions and activities

INTERNATIONAL NURSING REVIEW, Issue 2 2006
B. Sztembis rn
Aim:, This paper describes the multidirectional activities recently completed to adapt nurse education in Poland to European standards. Background:, The Polish system transformation and the changes that have taken place in health care since the 1980s required intensive effort and change in the nursing care and education systems of nurses and midwives. Outcomes:, Changes accomplished include: (1) preparation and implementation of a nurse education model complying with European standards; (2) discontinuance of the previous system of nurse education taught at the secondary school level; and (3) adjusting the organization and post-basic curricula of nurses and midwives to the actual needs of the society as well as for the nurses themselves. The goal of a uniform nurse education system in Poland that met European requirements motivated the Polish change agents. This change ensures the integration of Polish nurses with the nurses from Europe and other countries in their common endeavours to improve nursing care and health outcomes. Conclusions:, The adopted changes in the system of nurse education resulted in uniformity of education and acceptance of bachelor's level education, which complies with European standards as well as adjusting the post-basic education to actual needs. Describing the substance and process of our work may be helpful to nurses in other countries who are working on their own models of nursing and healthcare restructuring. [source]

Ability, Education, and Income Inequality

JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ECONOMIC THEORY, Issue 2 2004
Buly A. Cardak
A model of education where the distribution of abilities is the source of heterogeneity is investigated. Ability is a key determinant of human capital accumulated when young, which in turn determines income and its distribution. The assumption of heterogeneous abilities leads to steady-state income distributions that exhibit income inequality. Of particular interest is the result that symmetric distributions of ability generate positively skewed income distributions. Models of private and public education are analyzed and compared. It is found that private education results in higher incomes and less income inequality than observed in the public education model. [source]

Continuing medical education, needs assessment, and program development: Theoretical constructs

THE JOURNAL OF CONTINUING EDUCATION IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS, Issue 1 2001
Mr. Michael Aherne MEd Associate
Abstract Continuing medical education (CME) program development and needs assessment have historically been practiced within the tradition of Ralph Tyler's education model. In light of transformational social, political, economic, and technical forces that demand greater accountability and responsiveness from physicians, CME units are challenged to transform their cultures and structures from models that deliver education to models that support the facilitation of learning for enhanced competence and performance. This article describes key change forces for physicians and brings program development and needs assessment into focus for the discussion. The impact of change forces on program development and needs assessment are examined, and some techniques to move beyond the traditional approach of felt needs are presented as a way of enabling strategic administrative planning and change management. [source]

Competency Testing Using a Novel Eye Tracking Device

ACADEMIC EMERGENCY MEDICINE, Issue 2009
Paul Wetzel
Assessment and evaluation metrics currently rely upon interpretation of observed performance or end points by an ,expert' observer. Such metrics are subject to bias since they rely upon the traditional medical education model of ,see one, do one, teach one'. The Institute of Medicine's Report and the Flexner Report have demanded improvements in education metrics as a means to improve patient safety. Additionally, advancements in adult learning methods are challenging traditional medical education measures. Educators are faced with the daunting task of developing rubrics for competency testing that are currently limited by judgment and interpretation bias. Medical education is demanding learner-centered metrics to reflect quantitative and qualitative measures to document competency. Using a novel eye tracking system, educators now have the ability to know how their learners think. The system can track the focus of the learner during task performance. The eye tracking system demonstrates a learner-centered measuring tool capable of identifying deficiencies in task performance. The device achieves the goal of timely and direct feedback of performance metrics based on the learner's perspective. Employment of the eye tracking system in simulation education may identify mastery and retention deficits before compliance and quality improvement issues develop into patient safety concerns. [source]

Selling the Public on Sustainable Watershed Conservation

BULLETIN OF LATIN AMERICAN RESEARCH, Issue 3 2004
Jeff Pugh
Abstract:, The city of Quito, Ecuador, began working in 2000 to protect the ecologically fragile watershed area for its drinking water. In order to protect the Papallacta watershed, the independent Fund for the Conservation of Watersheds (FONAG) was launched to finance and manage economically sound sustainability projects in the area. FONAG is funded in part through start up grants from several organisations and a 1 per cent fee on all Quito water bills, but it has been unable to build an endowment sizeable enough to begin implementing conservation projects. We measure perceptions of the fund among Quito's university,based residents in two settings and evaluate the quality of the fund's proposed communication campaign based on existing communication theory. Further, we propose an adapted environmental education model based on a synthesis of existing theory and the empirical findings from our examination of the FONAG example. The Papallacta case study illuminates the potential strengths and weaknesses of the cultural ecology and political will of this type of collaborative sustainability project for addressing water problems in a developing country in a mountainous setting, centred around the themes of water conservation and sustainable development. [source]