Issenberg et al. lists the factors that might boost the future role of simulation technology in the education of health professionals such as demonstrated educational effectiveness, increased technological efficiency and simplicity, educational cost-effectiveness, and slow evolution in the culture of clinical education [ 18].
We hope that this enactment of stage 3 (intervention) of the Global Campaign against Headache [1] will demonstrate educational and practical benefits to neurologists and, more importantly, measurable health benefits for their patients with headaches.
Training for intraoperative technical skills on simulators and for perioperative care in virtual patients have independently demonstrated educational value, but no training combining these 2 approaches has been designed yet.
As could be demonstrated, educational interventions may be effective, in particular with regard to patients with acute or subacute back pain [ 18].
Such political influence (e.g. – interest or 'pressure' groups) may also force faculty and administrators to include contents that are inconsistent with schools' academic philosophy and/or demonstrated educational needs, thus leading to pedagogically inadequate, incoherent programmes.
The successful completion and presentation of the project was felt to be an important milestone to demonstrate educational significance, as knowledge and skills learned in QI sessions were applied to a real-life scenario.
An Iranian study demonstrated educational training in risk factors of cardiovascular disease had a sustained effect 6 years after training was initiated on modifying community lifestyle risk factors (14).
In Table 2 a comparison of two regression models (model A including patient group, gender and age; model B including the aforementioned characteristics plus educational level) demonstrated that educational level in itself contributes to the explanation of differences with respect to importance scores.
In summary, this study has the potential to produce evidence demonstrating an educational intervention can have a preventative effect on sleep disturbance and mood disorders in the postpartum period.
The continuous operation of TCom at the University of Toronto, despite a lack of research to date clearly demonstrating its educational effectiveness, is a result of very positive ratings of the program by students and by their teachers and patients.
