Once you imagine educating a thousand people in a single class, it becomes clear that open courses, even in their nascent state, will be able to raise quality and improve certification faster than traditional institutions can lower cost or increase enrolment.
The fact that the PHCCs in the quality network did not get better results than the others may indicate that getting feedback on sickness certification is not enough to improve sickness certification; local quality work is needed as well.
Mary Loftus Levine, executive director of the Connecticut Education Association, the state's largest teachers' union, disputed Mr. Malloy's characterization that teachers can get tenure just by showing up, and she said the union supported efforts to improve training, certification and evaluation procedures for teachers.
To describe the Neonatal Research Network's efforts to improve the certification process for the Follow-Up Study neurologic exam and to evaluate inter-rater agreement before and after two annual training workshops.
One of the report's recommendations is to improve direct certification for children in households receiving SNAP benefits.
Experience does not appear to improve death certification practice.
A proactive exposure science research agenda to improve product certification by minimizing releasable toxicants would prevent contact before it can occur.
Thus, the results indicate that much can be gained through focusing on physicians in other types of clinics as well, when planning interventions to improve sickness-certification practice.
An "action plan" on import safety was started by President Bush last month, calling for greater efforts to prevent tainted goods from American trade partners, improved certification of imports and American training to help other countries build safety inspection capabilities.
The results highlight potential opportunities such as practice guideline development and improvements to the certificate itself that may be targeted to improve GP sickness certification, RTW outcomes and, ultimately, the health of injured patients.
