7 Such curricula aim to guide and support educators in developing and implementing educational programmes in patient safety.
Interventions delivered by adult educators were shown to be more effective in the longer term than peer-education programmes.
Medical educators strive to promote the development of clinical, communication and reasoning (critical thinking) skills in their educational programmes [ 11].
Peer education programmes, therefore, can be effective, but it is not clear whether these programmes are effective because they are run by peer educators or whether they might be more effective if the same programmes were run by adults.
As part of the education programme, the peer educators were intentionally used in training the junior students in the communication skills component, including skills taught as part of the TeamSTEPPS training.
Eight educators were experienced in working with older people in hospitals, and two new graduate physiotherapists delivered the education programme for approximately 8 weeks at multiple sites when any of the educators were on leave.
Intervention A six hour structured group education programme delivered in the community by two professional healthcare educators.
Local health educators who were trained by research staff over a four day workshop delivered the salt reduction education programme.
Moving beyond basic literacy, formal education and programmes that help educators integrate ICTs into interactive teaching approaches can help improve learning outcomes and teach "21st century skills" such as use of technology, problem-solving, teamwork and self-motivation.
Barker, Gary, Gender Equitablee Boys in a Gender Inequitable World: Reflections from qualitative research and program development with young men in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil', 1999 This paper asks how males with gender-equitable attitudes differ from their less egalitarian peers and how educators and programme specialists can help promote gender-equitable attitudes among young men.
"Right now I work as a peer educator for a programme called Youth for Change.
