scholarly journals Postgraduate training course in the psychiatry of mental handicap

1991 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 216-217
Author(s):  
Dora Kohen
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Postgraduate Training ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Senior Registrar ◽  
Mental Handicap ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Good Medical Practice ◽  
Training Courses

Among other things, good medical practice demands continuation of training at every level of professional life. Post-membership psychiatrists who have started their senior registrar (SR) jobs may face a lack of formal training. In many subspecialities of psychiatry this has been extensively remedied by various training courses and programmes.

SMART tips for setting teaching objectives

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 614-617
Author(s):  
Yasmin Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
General Medical Council ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Medical Council ◽  
Effective Teacher ◽  
Good Medical Practice ◽  
Teaching Objectives ◽  
And Training

‘Doctor’, derived from Latin, means ‘teacher’. As doctors, we teach our patients, students and colleagues. The General Medical Council makes reference to this in ‘Good Medical Practice’, stating that as a doctor ‘you should be prepared to contribute to teaching and training doctors and students’. The importance of teaching is echoed in the RCGP curriculum. Despite its importance, not every doctor has the opportunity of formal training on how to become an effective teacher. This article presents a simple guide that doctors can use to plan teaching sessions.

scholarly journals What influences postgraduate psychiatric trainees’ attitudes to clinical audit?

2017 ◽  
Vol 37 (2) ◽  
pp. 106-110
Author(s):  
S. McWilliams ◽  
S. Schofield
Keyword(s):  
Sample Size ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Clinical Audit ◽  
Initial Study ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Ethical Practice ◽  
Specific Training ◽  
Direct Experience ◽  
Good Medical Practice ◽  
Positive Attitudes

IntroductionClinical audit is an important component of safe and ethical practice but many clinicians cite barriers to engagement in audit.MethodologyA total of 81 basic specialist trainees in psychiatry were surveyed in terms of their basic demographic details and their knowledge, direct experience and attitudes in relation to clinical audit.ResultsAmong the 49 (60.5%) who responded, 57.1% had received formal training in audit, but only 20.4% had received more than four hours of training in their whole career. The median positivity score was 30 out of a possible 54 (range 12–40), suggesting that participating trainees were barely more than ‘undecided’ overall when it comes to positive attitudes to clinical audit. Age, nationality and specific training did not predict attitudes to clinical audit. Gender, years of clinical experience and direct experience of clinical audit did not significantly predict attitudes to clinical audit, but these findings are at odds with some previous research.DiscussionMuch work is needed in improving postgraduate trainees’ attitudes to clinical audit, given that clinical audit is essential for good medical practice. Ours is an initial study of this area of training limited by sample size and the narrowness of the group tested. Further study of other specialities, higher trainees and consultant trainers would further enhance our understanding.

The effect of the implementation of a good medical practice booklet on nursing home residents’ drug prescriptions: a difference-in-differences analysis based on data from electronic pill dispensers (Preprint)

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stéphane Sanchez ◽  
Cécile Payet ◽  
Marie Herr ◽  
Anne Dazinieras ◽  
Caroline Blochet ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nursing Homes ◽  
Medical Practice ◽  
Intervention Group ◽  
Medication Use ◽  
Nursing Home Residents ◽  
Control Group ◽  
Multilevel Regression ◽  
Difference In Differences ◽  
Good Medical Practice ◽  
The Impact

BACKGROUND The elderly are particularly exposed to adverse events from medication. Among the various strategies to reduce polypharmacy, educational approaches have shown promising results. OBJECTIVE We aimed to evaluate the impact of the implementation of a good medical practice booklet on polypharmacy in nursing homes. METHODS We identified nursing homes belonging to a geriatric care provider that had launched a policy of proper medication use using a good medical practice booklet delivered to prescribers and pharmacists. Data were derived from electronic pill dispensers. The effect of the intervention on polypharmacy was assessed with multilevel regression models, with a control group to account for natural trends over time. The main outcomes were the average daily number of times when medication was administered and the number of drugs with different presentation identifier codes per resident per month. RESULTS 96,216 residents from 519 nursing homes were included between 1 January 2011 and 31 December 2014. The intervention group and the control group both decreased their average daily use of medication (-0.05 and -0.06). The good medical practice booklet did not have a statistically significant effect (exponentiated difference-in-differences coefficient 1.00, 95% confidence interval 0.99-1.02, P=.45). CONCLUSIONS Although the good medical practice booklet itself did not seem effective in decreasing medication use, our data show the effectiveness of a higher-level policy to decrease polypharmacy.

Training Courses for Delegates

1970 ◽  
Vol 10 (111) ◽  
pp. 327-327
Keyword(s):  
Red Cross ◽  
Humanitarian Law ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Training Course ◽  
Geneva Conventions ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
The Subject

The ICRC organized its first “ training course for delegates ” in Geneva from 11 to 14 May.The theory lessons (humanitarian law, Geneva Conventions) and practical lessons (delegates' activities on mission), which were introduced by various ICRC collaborators, the Swiss Red Cross and medical experts, were prepared in close collaboration with the Henry Dunant Institute. During the seminar, Professor O. Reverdin gave a lecture on the subject “ Switzerland and the concept of neutrality ”.

CONCLUSIONS

PEDIATRICS ◽  
1960 ◽  
Vol 26 (5) ◽  
pp. 883-883
Author(s):  
Carl C. Fischer
Keyword(s):  
Social Factors ◽  
Postgraduate Training ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
The Future ◽  
Question And Answer

After reviewing the presentations of the four panelists and the informal question and answer period that followed, the following conclusions would seem to represent the consensus insofar as the panel is concerned: (1) The practice of pediatrics as a specialty would seem to be here to stay—at least insofar as can be presently judged. (2) The term "new" pediatrics is a misnomer in that many pediatricians have been practicing it for many years. Our present interest, then, lies not so much in a "new" or comprehensive pediatrics—but in better ways to accomplish it. (3) Our undergraduate and postgraduate training must be brought up to date in order to better equip the pediatrician of the future for the comprehensive practice of pediatrics as it exists in his community. (4) This does not necessarily mean more time or more formal training but rather better use of all available facilities, including participation in as well as full awareness and understanding of the emotional and social factors in the lives of the "little people" under their care.

scholarly journals Could Personalised Self-Inking Stamps Improve Identification Standards in Medical Records?

2012 ◽  
Vol 94 (4) ◽  
pp. 128-130
Author(s):  
Sac MacKeith ◽  
Svelusamy ◽  
A Pajaniappane ◽  
P Jervis
Keyword(s):  
Medical Practice ◽  
Medical Records ◽  
General Medical Council ◽  
Case Note ◽  
Medical Council ◽  
Patient Records ◽  
Medical Case ◽  
Good Medical Practice ◽  
Professional Contact

Doctors' handwriting has long been criticised as being difficult to read or even illegible. In more recent years research has confirmed that it is not uncommon to find medical case note entries that are deficient, illegible or unidentifiable. In Good Medical Practice the General Medical Council (GMC) asks that doctors 'keep clear, accurate, legible and contemporaneous patient records'. In addition, the GMC 'expects that all doctors will use their reference numbers widely to identify themselves to all those with whom they have professional contact'. This includes encouragement for its use in case note entries and prescribing.

Coaching and Coach Education in Spain: A Critical Analysis of Legislative Evolution

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 281-292 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sebastián Feu ◽  
Javier García-Rubio ◽  
Antonio Antúnez ◽  
Sergio Ibáñez
Keyword(s):  
Education System ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Coach Education ◽  
Single Process ◽  
The Status ◽  
Training Courses ◽  
Administrative Procedures ◽  
Legislative Changes ◽  
Sport Coaches ◽  
Spanish Education

The purpose of this paper is to describe the status of coaching and coach education in Spain. Particular emphasis is placed on legislative evolution of the qualifications of sport coaches and the repercussions it has had on the sport and education system. The formal training of sport coaches in Spain has undergone many legislative changes since the promulgation of the Constitution in 1978. This period of legislative changes has been long and has not ended as a single process. Transitory provisions are still being used to impart and approve training courses. The changes adopted have served to introduce sport teaching into the Spanish education system as a special education system; and to homogenize the study plans, the requisites for teachers who give the courses and the administrative procedures, among the different sport disciplines. The equalization of professional sport qualifications at the European level is now more feasible.

scholarly journals A Contribution by John Bowlby

1981 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 2-4
Author(s):  
John Pippard
Keyword(s):  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Professional Life ◽  
Formal Training ◽  
Child Psychiatrist ◽  
Childhood Experience ◽  
College Hospital ◽  
Medical Background ◽  
John Bowlby ◽  
Medical Qualification

In giving a brief account of salient events in my professional life I will start in 1937 when I was aged 30 and had just completed my formal training as a child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. Apart from a medical background and an interest in psychology, my choice of career had been determined by what I had seen and heard during the six months that I had spent in a school for disturbed children between my preclinical training at Cambridge, where I had also read natural sciences and psychology, and completing my medical qualification at University College Hospital. During my time at the school I had worked with children and adolescents whose difficulties I know now to be typical of much personality disorder, and had been exposed to hypotheses, derived from the ‘new psychology’ emanating from Vienna, regarding the role of childhood experience in their origin. Accordingly I had decided to train as a psychoanalyst. This I began before qualifying medically and continued whilst spending eighteen months at the Maudsley, learning the psychiatry of adults as one of Aubrey Lewis's early students. This proved a productive relationship, not least because on many questions we agreed to differ.

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