Challenges for Evaluation in Higher Education: Entrance Examinations and Beyond: The Sample Case of Medical Education

2018 ◽  
pp. 59-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christiane Spiel ◽  
Barbara Schober
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Entrance Examinations ◽  
Sample Case

Profile of Medical Education in Latin America

1971 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-59 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. C. García
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Human Resources ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Human Resources Development ◽  
Health Manpower ◽  
American Schools ◽  
Pan American ◽  
Health Organization

Preliminary results of a study on medical education in Latin America carried out by the Department of Human Resources Development of the Pan American Health Organization are given in this article. Each of the Latin American schools of medicine existing at the end of 1967 and at the beginning of 1968 was visited by a researcher for approximately seven days. During this period specially prepared questionnaires were completed. An analysis of the data reveals the presence of three types of imbalances: (1) imbalance between the system of secondary education and that of medical education, (2) internal imbalance between the system of higher education and medical education, and (3) imbalance between the system of health services and that of medical education. The study of the data compiled may serve as a basis for the proposal of activities leading to harmonious development of the health manpower sector.

scholarly journals The management of academic supervision in the More Doctors for Brazil Project by higher education institutions

2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (suppl 1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rodrigo Chavez Penha ◽  
Rosa Gouvêa de Sousa ◽  
Sandro Schreiber de Oliveira ◽  
Erika Rodrigues de Almeida ◽  
Jackeline Gomes Alvarenga Firmiano
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Primary Care ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Education Policy ◽  
Continuing Education ◽  
Higher Education Institutions ◽  
National Health System ◽  
Public Higher Education ◽  
Professional Qualification ◽  
Education Professional

ABSTRACT The More Doctors Program is a strategic set of actions for the Brazilian National Health System (SUS) aiming at improvements in medical education, professional qualification and retention of doctors in unassisted areas. Among these actions, we highlight the Project More Doctors for Brazil (PMMB), responsible for the emergency supply of doctors. It was conceived as a response to the shortage of professionals in primary care across the country, an extremely important aspect in this set of strategies for SUS. The professional improvement proposed by PMMB has mobilized public higher education institutions to participate as supervisory institutions. They are responsible for supervising the activities developed by doctors and for strengthening the continuing education policy through teaching-service integration actions. This article aims to report on the experience of managing academic supervision in light of the challenge of the implementation of PMMB.

scholarly journals A competency-based approach to professional training of prospective nurses in the context of rehabilitation care reforms in Ukraine

2021 ◽  
pp. 166-175
Author(s):  
Natalia Rudakova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Medical Profession ◽  
Rational Approach ◽  
High Tech ◽  
Education Development ◽  
Rehabilitation Care

In present conditions of turbulent development of scientific and technological progress, reforms of Ukrainian educational system and integration into European educational space, high quality training and professional orientation of medical workers, especially nurses, is highly needed. The baccalaureate nurse should obtain a high level of knowledge and competence in all areas of their work. This is primarily due to the involvement of baccalaureate nurses in extraordinarily complex medical procedures, usage of high-tech equipment in specialized institutions, and independent decision-making related to the implementation of palliative care in health care institutions. Because of these changes, nursing should become an independent medical profession, and one of the prerequisites for this is the modernization and improvement of nursing training programs at the level of a higher education (bachelor and master levels). The article analyzes the research on the development of medical education in the context of reforming the medical field in times of global crisis. The author presents a retrospective analysis of nursing education development in Ukraine in the middle of the 20th –the first half of the 21st century; a parallel is drawn with the existing state qualification requirements and areas of professional training for nurses of different levels of education. The author of the article indicates the necessity of a rational approach to the training of prospective nurses and substantiates the directions of nursing education development in the context of modern health care reform by the Ministry of Health of Ukraine. It is argued the importance of developing not only hard skills, but also soft skills of prospective medical workers, especially within the framework of a narrow specialization during the period of study in higher education institutions. Keywords: medical education, rehabilitation support, nursing, competence, educational reforms.

scholarly journals Predictors and Protectors of Pathological Menopause

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Dilrabo T. Kayumova
Keyword(s):  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Higher Education ◽  
Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Uterine Fibroids ◽  
Menopausal Syndrome ◽  
The Metabolic Syndrome ◽  
Metabolic Imbalance ◽  
Main Components ◽  
A Prospective Study

A prospective study of 1484 women aged 35-70 years was conducted, which were divided into 3 groups - late reproductive, perimenopausal and postmenopausal. Menopausal syndrome (MS) was detected in 1369 (93.3%) women. Every third woman in peri- and postmenopause had a moderately severe MS. The metabolic imbalance worsened more as the severity of the MS increased, rather than with increasing age. Predictors of pathological menopause are identified - these are the main components of the metabolic syndrome (diabetes mellitus, hypertension, obesity); uterine fibroids, as well as urbanization and higher education. The protective factors for the development of the MS was the absence of the fact of marriage (single), medical education and waist circumference of 80 cm or less.Late reproductive stage

The Regulatory Environment of Non-Profit Higher Education and Research Institutions and Its Implications for Managerial Strategy

2017 ◽  
pp. 336-351
Author(s):  
Marian Mahat ◽  
Alan Pettigrew
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Regulatory Environment ◽  
Research Institutions ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Loosely Coupled ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
Managerial Strategy ◽  
Market Pressures

The concept of strategy in non-profit higher education is a contested issue. It is argued that strategy, in the business sense, does not apply to a substantially public and more institutionalized sector such as higher education and is not achievable in complex, loosely coupled organizations such as universities. Additionally, strategy does not sit easily with organizations operating in regulated contexts limiting competitive market pressures. This chapter discusses the regulatory environment of non-profit higher education by focusing on one of the most highly regulated disciplines: medical education and research. The chapter will begin by developing a context for discussion by firstly mapping the landscape of Australian medical education and research. Subsequently, the chapter argues that medical schools and research institutes need to exercise as much discretion as they can in the area under their control, develop sound strategies to deal with their changed circumstances, and develop a coherent and defensible basis for decision making through assessing their environment.

scholarly journals NURSES EDUCATION AND SPECIFIC CHARACTERISTICS IN MEDICAL COLLEGE IN EMERGENCY SITUATION

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Livija Jankovska ◽  
Velta Lubkina ◽  
Liga Danilane
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Medical Education ◽  
Professional Education ◽  
Emergency Situation ◽  
Doctoral Thesis ◽  
Medical College ◽  
Global Pandemic ◽  
Higher Medical Education ◽  
Present Emergency

Transformation of medical education in Latvia is connected to new requirements which are focused on developing complex competences that have become especially important in specific and health threatening conditions of Covid-19 global pandemic. Qualitative use of specific and transversal competences is necessary for more complicated and autonomous dimensions of the nurses’ responsibilities. Uniting of the existing 2nd level of the professional education with the 1st level of higher education into common higher medical education frame is planned in order to make nurses’ certification easier, to improve employment, mobility and adaptability to the unexpected conditions as, for the example, the present emergency pandemic situation. The study in the doctoral thesis frame reveals that improvement of acquisition of the competences can be promoted by transforming educational documents and focusing on practice-based environment.

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