Review of the studies on masters′degree training programme of disaster relief nurses / 中国实用护理杂志

Nurses play a key role in disaster prevention, delivery and management of care in disaster situations. Training high education level and enhancing disaster core competencies of disaster nurses are essential part in response to mass casualty incidents and reserving the nursing talent. Masters′degree of disaster nurses began in 2013 in China. At that time, disaster nursing task force was composed of faculty members from both the Hong Kong Polytechnic University and School of Nursing in Sichuan University, and then, students of disaster nursing were enrolled by School of Nursing in Shandong University and Chuanbei College. Masters′ degree training programme of disaster relief nurses was not perfect in China. This paper reviewed the studies on masters′degree training programme of disaster relief nurses.

The practice and effects of pre-job comprehensive training of medical postgraduates / 中华医学教育探索杂志

Objective To improve the teaching methods of graduate students, and provide the theoretical basis for other teaching hospitals to extend the preclinical training mode of clinical medicine professional degree students. Methods 90 clinical medical postgraduate students of Grade 2012 were divided into four groups according to their specialized field and 54 hours of pre-job clinical intensive training were conducted at the same time. The training included four modules lectured by teachers with physician-in-charge above title, such as communication between doctors and patients and medical history collection, physical examination, medical record writing as well as theory of knowl-edge. Before and after the implementation of intensive training, these four skills and knowledge of the students were tested and assessed by professional teachers. Relevant data were paired t test, ANOVA and non-parametric tests. Results The test results of patient-doctor communication and patient history collection, physical examination, complete medical records and theoretical examination results of each group after training were improved to be higher than before (P<0.05). And the effect of patient-doctor communication and patient history collection was the most significant. The doctor-patient communica-tion and history acquisition performance of different groups of graduate students had statistically sig-nificant difference (P=0.001). Conclusion Strengthening the preclinical comprehensive training for medical postgraduate can make the students master the basic clinical skills better and more effectively and the corresponding training methods are worthy of popularization to the other teaching hospitals.

Masters Degree in Medical Education at the Centre for Medical Education,the University of Dundee / 医学教育

1) At the University of Dundee, the postgraduate certificate, diploma and Masters programme in medical education has been designed to meet the teacher training needs of health professions' teachers at a range of levels.2) In this programme, outcome-based approach was used in curriculum development, reflection is encouraged throughout the coursework, and linking theory with practice was emphasized.3) At the end of this programme, participants will understand the theory of medical education in general with the ability to apply it to their own institutions as well as the basics of how to conduct medical education research.

Una aproximacio de las variables a tener en cunta para la confeccion de un siistema de acreditacion y evaluacion de especialidades / An approachment to the variables that can be taken into account as starting point for the Evaluation and Accreditation System for the specialties in Health Sciences

La búsqueda de alternativas que promuevan el mejoramiento continuo de la calidad en la formación de los recursos humanos de las Ciencias de la Salud es una tarea priorizada del Ministerio de Salud Publica. Una de las formas de garantizar lo anterior es el establecimiento de Sistemas de acreditación y evaluación para cada uno de los niveles de formación. Los resultados en la formación académica de postgrado en nuestro país han mostrado el iderazgo de la formación de especialistas en y para el sistema de salud de Cuba y el mundo, con la proyección internacionalista como eje central en la formación prestación de los servicios. No existe hasta hoy un sistema de evaluación de las especialidades en la Salud Publica que acredite la calidad del proceso y del especialista como resultado. Se hace el análisis de documentos publicados o no relacionados con esta temática y se identifica un conjunto de variables que pueden ser tenidas en cuenta como puntos de partidapara el establecimiento del Sistema de Evaluación y Acreditación de las Especialidades en Ciencias de La Salud, el cual debe contemplar la complejidad del proceso, dado en última instancia por los elementos comunes del modelo del especialista y el perfil profesional donde coexisten elementos que particularizan e identifican cada especialidad o grupo de ellas.

The search for alternatives to promote the continuous improvement of the quality in the formation of the human resources for the Health Sciences is a priority task for the Ministry of Public Health. One of the ways to guarantee this is the establishment of Accreditation and Evaluation Systems for each of the levels of academic formation. The results in the academic formation of postgraduate courses in our country have shown the leadership in the formation of specialists within the Health System in Cuba and in the rest of the world and for it, with the internationalist projection as the core in the formation and provision of services. So far, it does not exist an evaluation and accreditation system of specialties in Public Health that accredits the quality of the process and the specialist as a result. An analysis of documents, published or not, related to this subject is done, and a set of variables that can be taken into account as starting point for the establishment of the Evaluation and Accreditation System for the specialties in Health Sciences are identified. This analysis must consider the complexity of the process ultimately given by the common elements of the specialists model and the professional profile where elements distinguishing and identifying each specialty or group of them can coexist.

Present Status of Dietetic Internship Program in Korea

The purpose of this study was to develop the standardized manual for dietetic internship. The general information of the dietetic internship program in Korea was gathered and of dietetic internship(DI) in the USA was also surveyed. The existence of DI program manual, the number of intern and length of the dietetic internship program, and other general information were investigated. At first, the questionnaire was developed and mailed to 130 hospitals in Korea and the number of returned questionnaires was 42 showing participating rate of 28%. Second, telephone survey was carried out and the number of response was 40 out of 46 participating rate of 87%. The results of this study could be summarized as follow. 1. General informations of dietetic internship program in Korea; The hospital having a dietetic internship program was 31.7% and of them 14.6%(12 hospitals) have a manual developed by themselves. The number of dietetic intern per hospital was 2.0+/-1.4. The length of the program was from 3 to 12 months. Ten hospitals (38.5%) have a only food service program and 16 hospitals (62.5%) have both food service and clinical program. Seventy one percent (58 hospitals) of total hospital were willing to use the well developed standardized dietetic internship manual. 2. General information of Dietetic Internship Program in the USA; Two hundred fifty nine hospital had the dietetic internship program approved by ADA. The number of dietetic intern in each hospital was 10.6+/-6.3. The mean length of the program was 13.6+/-6.3 months. Twenty seven percent of institution have coordinated internship/masters degree program. The range of tuition for DI program was from $300 to 30,855(otherwise, interns were payed by the hospital in Korea). As a conclusion, the standardized dietetic internship program for the clinical dietitian as nutrition professionals to carry out their job at the hospitals should be developed. And the coordinated internship/masters degree program could be considered to improve the skill levels and job performances of clinical dietitian.