Open Access. Powered by Scholars. Published by Universities.®
- Keyword
-
- Brazil (1)
- Consanguinity (1)
- Curriculum development – Nursing (1)
- Endogamy (1)
- Founder effect (1)
-
- Genetic Counseling (1)
- Genetic counseling (1)
- Genetic education (1)
- Health Education (1)
- Health education (1)
- Heterozygote Detection (1)
- Heterozygote detection (1)
- Human (1)
- Humans (1)
- Infant (1)
- MPS VI (1)
- Masters Degree (1)
- Newborn (1)
- Organization and management (1)
- Professional Practice (1)
- Rare Diseases (1)
- Rare disease (1)
- Rare diseasesarticle (1)
- Rural Health Services (1)
- Rural health care (1)
- Work-based learning (1)
- Work-integrated learning (1)
Articles 1 - 2 of 2
Full-Text Articles in Medicine and Health Sciences
Work Integrated Learning: A Whole Of Curriculum Approach, Catharine Andre, Beverley A. Ewens, Fiona Foxall
Work Integrated Learning: A Whole Of Curriculum Approach, Catharine Andre, Beverley A. Ewens, Fiona Foxall
Research outputs 2013
The School of Nursing and Midwifery at Edith Cowan University, Western Australia is currently developing an innovative work integrated learning masters to service the needs of students and industry. As this paper details, the program is aimed at Registered Nurses and Midwives to support and develop the skills to conceptualise and implement a work integrated program of study, the products of which are then used as recognised assessment items. Unlike many other work integrated learning initiatives, this curriculum is entirely work integrated learning based with early units of study providing students with the foundational skills and conceptual understanding required to …
Delivering Genetic Education And Genetic Counseling For Rare Diseases In Rural Brazil, A.X. Acosta, K Abe-Sandes, R Giugliani, Alan H. Bittles
Delivering Genetic Education And Genetic Counseling For Rare Diseases In Rural Brazil, A.X. Acosta, K Abe-Sandes, R Giugliani, Alan H. Bittles
Research outputs 2013
Brazil is the largest country in Latin America, with an ethnically diverse, Portuguese-speaking and predominantly Roman Catholic population of some 194 million. Universal health care is provided under the Federal Unified Health System (Sistema Único de Saúde) but, as in many other middle and low income countries, access to medical genetics services is limited in rural and remote regions of the country. Since there is no formally recognized Genetic Counseling profession, genetic counseling is provided by physicians, trained either in medical genetics or a related clinical discipline. A comprehensive medical genetics program has been established in Monte Santo, an inland …