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Select Readiness: Assessing The Clinical Learning Environment Of A Regional Branch Medical Campus, Margaret A. Hadinger Edd, Ms, Erica T. Mahady Ma, Edward Norris Md, Fapm, J Alan Otsuki Md, Mba
Select Readiness: Assessing The Clinical Learning Environment Of A Regional Branch Medical Campus, Margaret A. Hadinger Edd, Ms, Erica T. Mahady Ma, Edward Norris Md, Fapm, J Alan Otsuki Md, Mba
Edward R Norris MD, FAPA, FAPM
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A Survey Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine Knowledge Among Health Educators In The United States, Ping Johnson, Jennifer Priestley, Roy Johnson
A Survey Of Complementary And Alternative Medicine Knowledge Among Health Educators In The United States, Ping Johnson, Jennifer Priestley, Roy Johnson
Jennifer L. Priestley
Background: Complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is popular among U.S. health care consumers, but no study has examined how much health educators know about CAM. Purpose: To examine the knowledge of basic CAM concepts and common CAM therapies among health educators in the U.S. Methods: An online survey was conducted among 1,299 health educators with valid e-mails on a professional listserv. The response rate was 39%. The 16-item CAM knowledge scale yielded a Cronbach's alpha of .71. Results: Participating health educators were most knowledgeable about chiropractic and massage therapy, familiar with the general definition of CAM, understood whether acupuncture is …
Measuring Educational Workload: A Pilot Study Of Paper-Based And Pda Tools, Susan Tallett, Lorelei Lingard, Karen Leslie, Jonathan Pirie, Ann Jefferies, Lawrence Spero, Rayfel Schneider, Robert Hilliard, Jay Rosenfield, Jonathan Hellmann, Marcellina Mian, Jennifer Hurley
Measuring Educational Workload: A Pilot Study Of Paper-Based And Pda Tools, Susan Tallett, Lorelei Lingard, Karen Leslie, Jonathan Pirie, Ann Jefferies, Lawrence Spero, Rayfel Schneider, Robert Hilliard, Jay Rosenfield, Jonathan Hellmann, Marcellina Mian, Jennifer Hurley
Lorelei Lingard
BACKGROUND: Teaching is an important professional role for most faculty members in academic health sciences centres. Careful delineation of educational workload is needed to foster and reward teaching efforts, and to facilitate equitable allocation of resources.
AIMS: To promote recognition in teaching and facilitate equitable resource allocation, we developed, piloted, and qualitatively assessed a tool for delineating the educational workload of pediatric faculty in an academic health sciences centre.
METHODS: A prototype educational workload measurement tool was developed. Between 2002 and 2004, three successive phases of pilot implementation were conducted to (1) assess the face validity of the tool, (2) …