Brazilian professors presented their experience teaching XP in the universities and practitioners described their first experiences with the new methods in the national software industry.
There has been a rapid rise in commercial knowledge transfers from universities to practitioners or university industry technology transfer (UITT), through licensing agreements, research joint ventures, and start-ups.
The ultimate goal is to have the WASH in Schools curricula tailored to the individual needs of countries, taught in local universities, reaching practitioners on the ground.
"The advantage for universities is that it gives them flexibility, particularly in areas where they don't know what the demand is going to be," says Helen Scott executive officer of UHR, the professional organisation for university human resources practitioners.
Hence our concern that such accounts, suggesting that the university's clinical practitioners are failing their institutional duty of pastoral care, may deter exactly those students who most need the expert support and guidance that is available to them from seeking it.
It included the principal directors from RRIEM/GWU and EMAT; members of the Turkish, European, and Asian emergency medicine community, including university faculty; general practitioners; representatives from physician and non-physician pre-hospital Emergency Medical Systems EMSS) groups; and government officials.
In Australia skill competencies are assessed in a structured way at university level before practitioners enter mental health service.
In 2003, the first cohort of local university trained TCM practitioners entered the work force but there was a lack of employment opportunities for these graduates.
We foresee that public health practitioners, university colleagues, donors, and other development partners will be able to contribute to and benefit from a dialogue based on science and experience of what works for field programs.
Despite Hong Kong government's official commitment to the development of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) over the last ten years, there appears to have been limited progress in public sector initiated career development and postgraduate training (PGT) for public university trained TCM practitioners.
