scholarly journals The Impact Of Internship Programme And Its Effects On The Physiotherapy Practice In Nigeria

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ayodele Teslim Onigbinde
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Internship Training

Background: The recent introduction of one year internship training programme is one of the few steps taken to update standard and knowledge of upcoming physiotherapists in Nigeria. It is a compulsory one-year clinical training post-graduation from the university under the supervision of the clinicians. The major importance of introducing the new policy is to promote acquisition and utilization of new skills, and as well, develop skills and confidence already acquired during undergraduate days. Objectives: The aim of this study was to assess and evaluate the new internship-training programme considering welfare package like salary and wages, accommodation, employment opportunities, acceptability and working environment. The study also evaluated the opinion of the supervisors on the impact of the new policy on the profession, government and clinical practice. Method: Structured copies of self-administered questionnaires were distributed to forty-four interns at three accredited University Teaching Hospitals in Nigeria while 30 questionnaires were distributed to supervising physiotherapists in these hospitals. The response rate for interns was 100% while it was 60% for the supervisors. The data obtained from the designed questionnaire were analyzed by descriptive analysis. Results: The result showed that the 52% of the interns were satisfied with the support from their senior colleagues, work load (80%), freedom to plan and manage patients (100%), and supervision from senior colleagues (62%). They were grossly dissatisfied with their salaries (91%), equipment available (79%), pattern of conducting ward rounds (89%), and office environment (58%). The result also revealed that all the supervising physiotherapists (100%) were satisfied with the skill and clinical practice of the interns. The result further showed that the programme has a positive impact in terms of clinical practice, confidence employment opportunity, productivity and government policy (66–100%). Conclusion: This study concluded that the internship programme has a remarkable positive impact on the profession of physiotherapy in Nigeria. However, the intern physiotherapists were not satisfied most especially with their monthly income and pattern of conducting clinical rounds. KEY WORDS: Physiotherapy Internship Programme, Nigerian Physiotherapists.

scholarly journals Examining the impact of academic development in the engineering faculties in Chile: Changes in teaching philosophy and teachers' competencies

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 254
Author(s):  
Roxana Acosta ◽  
Marina Tomás-Folch ◽  
Mónica Feixas
Keyword(s):  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Teaching Quality ◽  
Teaching Philosophy ◽  
Engineering Sciences ◽  
Teaching Unit ◽  
Assessment Strategies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
And Training

The Faculties of Engineering Sciences at Universidad Católica del Norte in Chile regard teacher training as a necessary tool for its academics’ professional development and as a fundamental way to improve their teaching quality. The Teaching Unit for Innovation in Engineering (UIDIN) has developed a new curriculum and training programme which seeks to support the faculty in its implementation. This article presents some of the outcomes of a study aimed at qualitatively examining the development of the faculty’s conceptions and philosophy of teaching and improvements in pedagogical competencies as a result of the implementation and transfer of the training programme. The teaching philosophy is described in different ways, but overall it considers teaching an act of disciplinary knowledge transfer based on students’ interests, skills and attitudes, and with a heavy emphasis on building students’ core values. Interviews reveal changes in the participants’ learning and competencies due to the training, along with a positive impact on the teachers’ lesson planning and assessment strategies and students’ feedback and the willingness to engage in more reflexive teaching practice.

Evaluating the Elklan Talking Matters Programme: Exploring the impact of a training programme for early years professionals on pre-school children’s language development

2020 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 108-125
Author(s):  
Judy Clegg ◽  
Carla Rohde ◽  
Henrietta McLachlan ◽  
Liz Elks ◽  
Alex Hall
Keyword(s):  
Language Development ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
Early Years ◽  
Post Intervention ◽  
Main Effect ◽  
Tentative Evidence ◽  
Effectiveness Of Training ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Impact

Training early years practitioners to facilitate the language development of young children is a widely used intervention. Evidence to support the effectiveness of training in terms of the impact of children’s language development is limited. The Elklan Talking Matters programme is an accredited training programme for early years practitioners. Practitioners train to be Lead Communication Practitioners (LCPs) who cascade training across early years settings or Key Communication Practitioners (KCPs) who are embedded into these settings. The aim of this study was to identify if the Talking Matters Programme is effective in facilitating the language development of pre-school children. One hundred and twenty-six children from 13 early years settings were recruited (mean age 27.81 months; SD 4.90). Thirteen settings participated in the Talking Matters Programme (five LCP+KCP settings, four LCP settings and four control settings). At time 1, prior to practitioners participating in the programme, children completed the Pre-School Language Scales 5th Edition (PLS-5), a standardized assessment of receptive and expressive language. At time 1, 126 children completed the baseline assessment ( n = 43 in the LCP+KCP settings, n = 43 in the LCP settings and n = 40 in the control settings). Children then completed the post intervention (time 2) assessment approximately six months later. Children in the intervention groups (LCP+KCP settings and LCP settings) made more progress in their language development from time 1 to time 2 compared to the control. The children in the LCP+KCP settings made more gains than the children in the LCP settings. A significant main effect of groups and time was found but not an interaction of group scores with time, meaning the increases in scores were not statistically significant between the intervention and control groups. The study provides tentative evidence that the Talking Matters programme has a positive impact on pre-school children’s language development.

scholarly journals Rural Public Health Workforce Training and Development: The Performance of an Undergraduate Internship Programme in a Rural Hospital and Healthcare Centre

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (7) ◽  
pp. 1259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luis Dos Santos
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Training Programme ◽  
The United States ◽  
Rural Hospitals ◽  
Healthcare Management ◽  
Public Health Workforce ◽  
Healthcare Centre ◽  
Health Centres ◽  
One Year ◽  
Internship Training

Workforce shortages in the field of public health and healthcare are significant. Due to the limitations of career opportunities and compensation, rural hospitals and healthcare centres usually have on-going career openings for all departments. As a result, university departments of public health and healthcare management, and rural hospitals and health centres may need to establish internship and training programmes for undergraduate senior-year students in order to provide opportunities and human resource opportunities for both students and public health professions. The research examined the performance, feedback, and opinions of a university-based one-year-long on-site internship training programme between a university public health and healthcare undergraduate department and a regional hospital and healthcare centre in a rural region in the United States. Individual interview data were collected from management trainees and focus group activities data were collected from hospital departmental supervisors who have completed this one-year-long on-site internship training programme. The results offered an assessment of performance and evaluation of how a one-year-long internship programme could be beneficial to hospitals and health centres in the areas of human resources, manpower management, and skill training to prospective professionals in rural and regional communities. Also, the study provided a blueprint and alternative for universities and partnered sites to redesign and improve their current internship programmes which may better fit their needs for their actual situations.

scholarly journals Psychosocial Aspects of Bruxism: The Most Paramount Factor Influencing Teeth Grinding

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mieszko Wieckiewicz ◽  
Anna Paradowska-Stolarz ◽  
Wlodzimierz Wieckiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Chronic Stress ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Negative Influence ◽  
Psychosocial Aspects ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Teeth Grinding ◽  
Environment And Development ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Over Time

In clinical practice, patients suffering from an occlusal parafunctional activity have increased. It can be observed that a negative influence of environment aggravates patient’s health. The aim of this paper is to present the impact of environment and development of human civilization on the prevalence of bruxism and the correlation between them. The authors grasp the most relevant aspects of psychological and anthropological factors changing over time as well as their interactions and describe a relationship between chronic stress and bruxism. Current literature shows how contemporary lifestyle, working environment, diet, and habits influence the patient’s psychoemotional situation and the way these factors affect the occluso-muscle condition.

scholarly journals One Year with the COVID-19 Pandemic - Lessons Learnt? Intersectoral Collaboration Measures Established during the Crisis Could Benefit Capacity and Patient Flow Management in Daily Clinical Practice

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hiller M ◽  
◽  
Bracht H ◽  
Schroeder S ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Patient Flow ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Daily Clinical Practice ◽  
Intersectoral Collaboration ◽  
Patient Pathways ◽  
Patient Flow Management ◽  
One Year ◽  
Communication Culture

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way hospitals work. Some of the urgently established measures have proven to be so useful that they should be adopted in standard care. Recent research has assessed patient management, human resource planning and communication measures in terms of their impact and practicality for continuation in daily clinical practice. Strategies that were detached from the boundaries of departments and responsibilities in the COVID-19 pandemic and that have proven themselves under extreme conditions show a beneficial influence on patient flow and resource management as well as on the communication culture. The continuation of closer interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral cooperation in a “new clinical routine” could have a positive impact on personnel concepts, communication strategies, acute care capacities and the management of patient pathways.

scholarly journals Hospital ethics reflection groups: a learning and development resource for clinical practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. Bruun ◽  
L. Huniche ◽  
E. Stenager ◽  
C. B. Mogensen ◽  
R. Pedersen
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
General Hospital ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Reflection Group ◽  
Ethical Challenge ◽  
Ethical Challenges ◽  
Reflection Groups ◽  
Patient Admissions ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Ethics Reflection

Abstract Background An ethics reflection group (ERG) is one of a number of ethics support services developed to better handle ethical challenges in healthcare. The aim of this article is to evaluate the significance of ERGs in psychiatric and general hospital departments in Denmark. Methods This is a qualitative action research study, including systematic text condensation of 28 individual interviews and 4 focus groups with clinicians, ethics facilitators and ward managers. Short written descriptions of the ethical challenges presented in the ERGs also informed the analysis of significance. Results A recurring ethical challenge for clinicians, in a total of 63 cases described and assessed in 3 ethical reflection groups, is to strike a balance between respect for patient autonomy, paternalistic responsibility, professional responsibilities and institutional values. Both in psychiatric and general hospital departments, the study participants report a positive impact of ERG, which can be divided into three categories: 1) Significance for patients, 2) Significance for clinicians, and 3) Significance for ward managers. In wards characterized by short-time patient admissions, the cases assessed were retrospective and the beneficiaries of improved dialogue mainly future patients rather than the patients discussed in the specific ethical challenge presented. In wards with longer admissions, the patients concerned also benefitted from the dialogue in the ERG. Conclusion This study indicates a positive significance and impact of ERGs; constituting an interdisciplinary learning resource for clinicians, creating significance for themselves, the ward managers and the organization. By introducing specific examples, this study indicates that ERGs have significance for the patients discussed in the specific ethical challenge, but mostly indirectly through learning among clinicians and development of clinical practice. More research is needed to further investigate the impact of ERGs seen from the perspectives of patients and relatives.

scholarly journals Inflammatory Bowel Disease Training During Adult Gastroenterology Residency: A National Survey of Canadian Program Directors and Trainees

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 118-125
Author(s):  
Zane R Gallinger ◽  
Amir Rumman ◽  
Kevin Pivovarov ◽  
Kyle Fortinsky ◽  
Marla Dubinsky ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Inflammatory Bowel Disease ◽  
Bowel Disease ◽  
Clinical Training ◽  
Training Model ◽  
Program Directors ◽  
University Teaching ◽  
Teaching Hospitals ◽  
Full Time ◽  
Inpatient Management ◽  
Inflammatory Bowel

Abstract Background Clinical training in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) is a mandated component of adult gastroenterology fellowship. This study aims to assess methods of instruction in IBD and identify priorities and gaps in IBD clinical training among residents and program directors (PDs). Methods Using both an online and in-person platform, we administered a 15-question PD survey and 19-question trainee survey that assessed the methods of IBD teaching and trainee perceptions of knowledge transfer of 22 IBD topics. The survey was previously developed and administered to US gastroenterology trainees and PDs. Results Surveys were completed by 9 of 14 (62.3%) PDs and 44 of 62 (71%) trainees. Both trainee years were equally represented (22 residents in each year of training). All respondents were based at university teaching hospitals with full-time IBD faculty on staff. Dedicated IBD rotations were not offered by more than half of training programs, and IBD exposure was most commonly encountered during inpatient rotations. Overall, only 14 (31.2%) trainees were fully satisfied with the level of IBD exposure during their training. Thirty-six (81.8%) trainees reported being comfortable with inpatient IBD management, whereas only 23 (52.3%) trainees reported being comfortable with outpatient IBD management. There was strong concordance between the proportion of PDs ranking an IBD topic as essential and trainee comfort in that area (Pearson’s rho 0.59; P=0.004). Fewer than half of trainees reported comfort in 11 of 22 (50%) proposed IBD topics. Identified areas of deficiency included phenotypic and endoscopic classification of IBD, inpatient management of severe active IBD, perianal disease management, monitoring biologic therapy and extra-intestinal manifestations of IBD. Conclusions Only one-third of Canadian gastroenterology trainees are fully satisfied with the level of IBD exposure under the current training model. Furthermore, several IBD topics appear to be inadequately covered during training. Our findings, which are similar to previously published US data, highlight the need for additional focus on IBD during gastroenterology residency.

scholarly journals Impact of IoT on social innovation in Japan

2019 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 341-353 ◽  
Author(s):  
Temitayo Shenkoya ◽  
Cho Dae-Woo
Keyword(s):  
Social Innovation ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
National Level ◽  
Geographical Location ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Working Environment ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Incremental Change ◽  
The Impact

Purpose Recently, the discussion on the impact of the Internet of Things (IoT) in theory and in practice is increasing. While some proponent envisage that the IoT will bring about positive radical change in the modern society, others argue that the IoT will introduce more disadvantages in the long run (mainly in terms of job losses) than advantages. The purpose of this paper is to arbitrate this controversy by examining the impact of IoT on the Japanese society. Design/methodology/approach While previous studies have largely been qualitative in nature, in this study, a quantitative approach was used. A multi-dimensional analysis was carried out and the statistical method known as the one-way analysis of variance was used to process the data obtained during this study. Findings The results show that indeed the IoT has a positive impact on the daily lives of the Japanese people, however the change it brings are mainly incremental change and not radical. Furthermore, rather than reducing job opportunities, it has created more opportunities and simplified operation processes. Research limitations/implications However, a limitation of this study is in its narrow scope. It is important to note that further studies on an international level or perhaps multi-national level is needed. Furthermore, there may be other underlining factors, such as culture, social, economic, geographical location, technology capacity, that may contribute to the impact of the IoT on daily life. Therefore, future research needs to verify if indeed this is the case. Originality/value This research successful arbitrates the argument about the impact of the IoT on the society by specifically showing that the advantages brought by the IoT out-ways its disadvantages. Furthermore, the uncertainty (fear of job losses) expressed by some experts was addressed in this study. The results obtained showed that the diffusion of the IoT has no correlation with job loss but rather supports improved working environment and creation of jobs.

scholarly journals Assessment of the impact of the extension of vaccination mandates on vaccine coverage after 1 year, France, 2019

2019 ◽  
Vol 24 (26) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Lévy-Bruhl ◽  
Laure Fonteneau ◽  
Sophie Vaux ◽  
Anne-Sophie Barret ◽  
Denise Antona ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Vaccination Coverage ◽  
Positive Impact ◽  
Vaccine Coverage ◽  
Communication Strategy ◽  
Childhood Vaccination ◽  
Increasing Trend ◽  
Data Coverage ◽  
The Law ◽  
One Year ◽  
The Impact

One year after the extension of the childhood vaccination mandates to the 11 routine vaccinations for children under 2 years old, we estimated vaccination coverage through vaccine reimbursement data. Coverage for children born in 2018 has notably increased. Moreover, vaccine coverage for children and for vaccines not concerned by the law have also shown an increasing trend, supporting a positive impact of the ongoing communication strategy on vaccination, beyond the extension of vaccination mandates.

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