This was provided by the academic partner in the team, by periodic progress meetings with the RDSU, and as a component of some of the more structured educational programmes delivered by the RDSU.
In conclusion, although this study may over-estimate the effect of the educational course, it adds to the information about the success of continuing medical education endeavours, and demonstrates that newly graduated NS physicians are more receptive to educational programmes and have more positive results than fully qualified physicians.
More educational programs are needed.
The Scottish government's action plan also includes more money for educational programmes to prevent young people from taking up smoking and a national marketing campaign on the danger of second-hand smoke.
Low-EE patients had spent significantly more years in formal educational programmes.
Furthermore, in educational programmes more lectures and workshops should be given by colleagues who are not explicitly connected to universities, making EBM more of a real-life business (1 56.1).
In more highly resourced settings, educational programmes have also been targeted at specific groups of patients with Type 2 diabetes, such as those newly diagnosed and those on insulin.
"In the countryside, we have to hunt pupils," says Misael Vasquez, a teacher-training official in the state.A 1992 reform gave states more freedom to design their educational programmes to suit the local population.
It was expected that the OTHs with more time of working experience and age have more opportunities to participate in continuing educational programmes and to have higher salaries, particularly if they work in the public sector.
"Educational programmes are now more fair in the rural areas, where education now recognizes the native culture and languages," he said.
