Program assessments included location of training, sponsoring organizations, key administrative personnel and their roles or responsibilities regarding community-based education, number of students rotating annually, number of supervising faculty and how the community-based training was financed.
The force is planning to make savings by reducing the number of supervising officers and through more collaboration with Norfolk Police.
Using a multivariable regression model, this previous study concluded that salary was a significantly influential factor among those who chose university hospitals, while non-economic factors, such as the number of supervising doctors, were influential among those who chose non-university hospitals.
In our special situation (large numbers of students supervised by small numbers of staff) an important further requirement is scalability: Different projects should be easily comparable while allowing for different tasks for different teams to reduce the risk of plagiarism.
One of the earliest examples is taken from the 1980s in Brazil, where adoption of a self-assessment approach to supervision at a community-based family planning distribution program not only improved performance, but also increased the number of providers supervised and reduced the cost of supervision [ 10].
Interestingly, the number of patients supervised varied significantly between 1 and 50.
In this study, the number of patients supervised during a CPD varied significantly from 1 patient to 50 patients.
Another effective measure that could be taken at a university level is that postgraduate departments should impose a limit on the number of students supervised by an individual lecturer, especially when the latter has increased teaching and administrative duties.
Some studies reported on the number of CHWs supervised per supervisor, but none measured the effects of different supervisor to CHW ratios on performance.
11 Some of the barriers that impede women's access to contraception are healthcare providers who are inadequately trained, insufficient in number and poorly supervised.
