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PubMed1995

Dental hygienists' information seeking and computer application behavior.

A questionnaire requesting information on information seeking, critical analysis, and computer applications was returned in 1992 by 136 of 197 (69 percent) currently licensed dental hygienists residing in Alaska, Delaware, and Idaho. The most common sources used for professional development and information retrieval were continuing education courses, discussions with colleagues, and journals. The respondents' own experience, credibility of the journal, and discussions with colleagues were the most frequent methods used to evaluate professional information. Many hygienists owned or had access to a computer, yet they rarely conducted online database searches to obtain professional information. The computer was primarily used to perform business functions rather than for clinical applications in these dental hygienists' employment settings. The majority of these hygienists were interested in attending related continuing education courses and indicated that computer skills should be part of dental hygiene curricula.

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[Diabetes mellitus educational software for health professionals: stages of design and development].

This research aimed at creating a software about Diabetes mellitus in order to stimulate the continuing education of health professionals as well as educative practices. The system was developed using Delphi application, through a data bank utilizing key-words and the Pascal language. The software includes key-words searching tools, improving the process of accessing the data bank.

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PubMed1993

The Health Sciences Consortium: innovator in educational training programmes.

The Health Sciences Consortium (HSC), a membership organization in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA, is devoted to the development and distribution of educational materials in the health sciences. Since 1971, HSC has grown to include 1200 members, comprising health sciences schools, hospitals and organizations in the USA and 28 other countries. HSC also publishes 1300 educational programmes covering all aspects of the health sciences and using a variety of delivery systems. In addition, HSC develops and customizes training and professional continuing education materials for pharmaceutical companies. The consortium provides several benefits to its members, including substantial discounts on instructional programmes, review and publication of submitted programmes, and faculty development workshops. HSC also sponsors an Instructional Design Fellowship Programme and a Visiting Faculty Programme open to all national and international consortium members.

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PubMed2005

Contents of a core library in continuing medical education: a Delphi study.

INTRODUCTION: In developing their professional competence, those who are interested in the practice of continuing medical education (CME) should recognize the knowledge base that defines their field. This study systematically identifies and organizes a list of books and journals comprising a core library (100 books/15 journals) for CME professionals. METHODS: The Delphi method was applied to elicit and combine the judgments of a fifty member panel considered knowledgeable about the CME field. The panelists participated in three iterations of the survey to first identify and then rank order nominated works. Separate ranked lists were created for books and journals. RESULTS: Forty-four participants completed the study (88% response rate). 268 books and 34 journals were identified. Mean ratings ranged from 4.78 (high) to 1.50 (low). DISCUSSION: The results of the study reflect the panel's judgment. The list is not definitive; instead, it describes what a select group of individuals knowledgeable about the CME field considered important. The list should therefore be seen as a general guide and a resource to facilitate decision-making, not as a prescription for creating a library.

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Continuing competency for health professionals: caveat emptor.

Continuing competency presents a challenge for professionals in the environmental health field and other public heath disciplines. It is argued that traditional continuing professional education alone is inadequate and other alternatives need to be developed which are complementary. Issues and concerns related to mandatory vs. voluntary continuing professional education are discussed. Communities of interest in the process are described which include practitioners, employers, faculty and consumers, each of whom contribute to a definition of competence. A format for increasing interaction among these communities and a credentialing--continuing competency model is presented. The model addresses the notion that obtaining and maintaining competency is an on-going dynamic process.

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PubMed1995

The continuing competence needs of physicians: a survey of the medical specialty societies.

The exchange of information among the medical specialty boards regarding assessment protocols, testing outcomes, and validity studies has had an important effect on how individual boards choose to accomplish their goal of validating competence [1]. With many recertification programs firmly in place, the focus now shifts to the societies' responses to recertification and to the emerging needs of their members as they face the prospect of documenting continuing competence. How the specialty societies understand and complement the efforts of their certifying boards and what types of programs they are developing in response to the continuing competence and recertification needs of their individual members is information that has not, to date, been collected or reported. The Task Force on Continuing Competence of the American College of Radiology developed a questionnaire to gather data on recertification and on the support programs developed by professional societies for recertification and continuing competence.

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Professional development.

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PubMed1997

The mentor commitment.

An active mentoring program can benefit an entire organization. The nurses being mentored always have a resource for questions and support. Orientation, inservice, and continuing education can be individualized, based on the needs of the nurse and the areas of work. Continuing education, so essential for professional development, can become an everyday occurrence, as it is an integral part of mentoring. Other benefits are those reaped by the mentors through the recognition and affirmation of their expertise. Difficult problems often require simple solutions. Using the expert ophthalmic nurse to mentor the novice can be one of these solutions. Through a mentor connection, job satisfaction, leadership, and professional empowerment can be a reality. In addition, achieving this will help us face a future in which the ophthalmic nurses' role will be at the forefront.

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